Why you are interested in updating Facebook Messenger on your iPhone
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Facebook has announced the release of a new version of the Messenger app for iPhone But it's not just another update. The creators of the app have redesigned the new Messenger for iOS from the ground up. As they say, now the application loads twice as fast and occupies a quarter of its original size.
In 2011 Facebook's messaging service, Messenger, became its own application, separating itself from the official application of the social network.From that moment on, its creators began to introduce new features, such as video calls, GIFs, the ability to share locations and much more. That is, we were facing an application more similar to WhatsApp or Telegram. However, the addition of all these new features made the application much more complex
Hence, the developers decided to give it a total face lift and redesign Messenger completely. That radical change has already been completed and will begin to reach users starting today. Now the application is faster, lighter and simpler In fact, its creators assure that the new Messenger for iOS will load twice as fast and take up a quarter of its original size in our iPhone storage.
Facebook Messenger app for iPhone just got faster and lighter
The developers of Facebook Messenger say that it has not been easy to simplify an application that is used by more than a billion people. To do this they reduced Messenger's core code by 84 percent, from more than 1.7 million lines of code to 360,000. They also rebuilt functions to accommodate a new, simplified infrastructure.
Reducing the lines of code makes the application lighter and more responsive. And on the other hand, having a streamlined code base means engineers can innovate faster. Of course, those responsible for the application have already warned that, as part of the reconstruction, some features of Messenger will be temporarily unavailable
With the changes made, the Facebook Messenger app for iOS will open much faster than beforeThis in an application that we use once a day is not important, but it is in a messaging application that we can open dozens of times a day. On the other hand, it will be lighter, which means that it will take less time to download and update Finally, it will be simpler, although it will still have a lot of features.
As we mentioned, the deployment of the new version has already started. So if you have an iPhone and use Facebook Messenger, you're interested in installing the new version as soon as it hits the App Store in your country.
