With cross-app messaging, you can now search for and message, video chat, or reshare posts with people across Instagram and Facebook.
For you to send messages to Messenger contacts directly from the Instagram app, first you have to update or download the latest version of the apps from your app stores. After the update is done, you can now use the cross messaging feature on any of your devices.
How Does Facebook Cross-App Messaging Work?
The moment you enable cross-app messaging, it eliminates the need to leave the app just to cross over to check messages on the other app. This feature also comes with features from Instagram. You can respond or react using emojis, change your chat colors, or create stickers.
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Using Cross-App On Messenger And Instagram
Before using this feature, ensure that you are using the Instagram version 164.0.0.46.123 for Android or version 165.0 for iOS. For Facebook, download version 287.0.022.120 for Android or version 287.1 for iOS.
Enable Cross-App Messaging On Instagram
You can enable the messaging feature on your Instagram app following these steps:
- Open your Instagram app
- Click on your profile
- Select the Menu button
- Next, ap on Settings
- Navigate to Privacy
- Click on Messages
- Now you can edit how you want to receive your messages.
Enable Cross-App Messaging on Facebook Messenger
- Launch your Facebook Messenger
- Click your Profile
- Beneath Preferences, click on Privacy Tap Message Delivery
- Customize how you will receive messages from Instagram.
