Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an interesting statement at the F8 2019 developer conference regarding the future of the company's various messengers. He that in the near future the corporation plans to ensure the compatibility and cross-platform nature of its services for messaging. We are talking about Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.
Zuckerberg has talked about this before, but at the time, the idea was pure concept. Now it's a solid program. And Asha Sharma, senior manager of Messenger Consumer Product, said Facebook will soon allow users to communicate across all of its messaging platforms. That is, we are talking about a unified communication protocol.
“We believe that people should be able to talk to anyone, anywhere,” she said during a speech at F8 2019. At the same time, Facebook Messenger will be the basis, through which it will be possible to communicate without switching to WhatsApp and Instagram, respectively. This will solve the problem with phone numbers. For Messenger, this identification method is not needed, but for WhatsApp, the opposite is true.
So far, the company has not specified the timing of the launch of the feature, however, it is expected that it may appear this year, at least in the form of a test solution. At the same time, in addition to convenience, this feature will allow you to implement end-to-end encryption in all services and increase security.
In addition, Facebook also about a complete overhaul of the user interface of the Messenger app. The client itself, as promised, will be faster in operation and will appear on mobile and desktop OS later this year. He is also credited with the functions of sharing video viewing and simplifying the search for content from friends.
Finally, the redesign of the main application and the web version of Facebook, which will lose the blue tones and become more friendly. All this is also planned for 2019.