From PC Mag: Annoyed that you have to use two separate apps to browse Facebook and chat with your Facebook friends? In the not-so-distant future, you may not have to.
Developer Jane Manchun Wong on Twitter Friday revealed evidence (pictured above) that the social network is planning to add a private chat feature back into its main app after removing it five years ago.
"For now, this new 'Chats' section seems to only contain the basic chat functionalities," Wong wrote. "To give message reactions, make a call, send photos, etc, you'd still have to open the Messenger app."
Facebook did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment.
Facebook removed private messages from its main app in July 2014 and began forcing users to download the standalone Facebook Messenger app to chat in private. As annoying as it was, the strategy helped catapult Facebook Messenger: by November 2014, just four months after the forced migration began, the app topped half a billion users.
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