App has been very glitchy lately. Seems to have an update once a week but it still doesn't fix the issues. I tried to message someone. It took 3 tries typing it because the app kept closing. update as of 09/21/25. still having issues over a year later. now I cant load or send messages if I have more than one message at a time. 2 updates and still not fixed. highly disappointed since I use this a lot for communication.
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← Back to MessengerEDIT: it seems that my phone updated this app during the night and that is when the problem began. Beginning today, recipients can no longer view photos that I send. It says I'm sending, but the person can't view it. It's always worked between us before, even yesterday. What's happening? We've both tried to restarting our phones, still won't work.
(1) Notifications never appear, even though I do have messages sent to me. (2) Can't search conversation properly, when I find the message I want to jump to, it leads me to a black screen or doesn't do anything at all. (3) Displays double or empty box of my sent messages. (4) When I click on a person I'd like to message, the chat disappears and it's all black, I try to restart, reinstall, or refresh and it remains that way until randomly coming back.
Pos app. I only still have this god awful app because it's the only thing that my friends use. I've updated it and it still has the same issue. It gets worse and worse with every year. currently the issue I've been having for a month or longer is that it will not let me send voice clips, it will just be stuck on sending and then when I send something else the voice clip I was trying to send vanishes. Does it all day long repeatedly
I miss Message+... I'd give this app more stars, but they'd have to update it! I can't select multiple messages and delete them. Instead, I have to go one by one. 🙄 Plus, searching for specific messages is another pain in the rear. For example... If I was searching for one saying 'her address is 123 4th Street' to find a friend's address that I'd forgot to add to her contact, I'll get highlights for maybe 5 messages, but it won't show me where they are. 😒 Bring back Message+!
As others have stated. Ongoing issue with messages not appearing, either sent or received. Seems like messenger apps for different contacts are not syncing, so large gaps of missing information and messages. Really irritating, and when you try to restart the app, it makes it worse! Just started using messenger again and can see why I left it.
I thought I was the only one having an issue. But now I've seen other people are having issues with the pay option in messenger. Considering it has access to bank stuff, that is not the part of this app I want glitching out. It'll let you go thru all the parts til it's processing then freeze. Then it won't back out and you have to close the whole app. Please fix this.
A great app for messaging people, I mean that's what the app is for! Pictures, videos, messages send too! My problem is being alerted to when people are trying to message me. It's been happening a lot these last few months, I would have gotten a message 5 hours ago and then get a notification saying I got the message, then there's times where it just doesn't notify me at all.
2/7/25 Since the update, my audio messages that I am sending out are being deleted as if I deleted them and I didn't. Also, for the chat bubbles, the pictures keep changing which isn't cool at all. Seems like the app needs work on it. Anyone else having these issues? 3/21/25: Seems like with every update the app isn't getting better, keeps saying waiting on connection when I'm on WiFi and it's not showing me who is online, please fix this.
After the latest update, or somewhere in between, the app has slowed down TREMENDOUSLY, and it is not my internet. i can read, stream, use whatsapp, and everything else on my internet except use this app efficiently. It freezes, becomes blank, does not send my messages, and does not receive messages properly. Sometimes it takes up to 15 minutes for messenger to catch up to what people send me. Also, all the Ai options should be optional since I think that's what slows my app down.
Overall it's great. Just run into a few bugs and glitches sometimes. I've had trouble with group chats, where it won't let me add somebody to a current one. And just today I tried to make a new group chat and it didn't let me complete it after selecting the people. It just bugged out and took me back to the main conversations page! Kind of frustrating!
This app is constantly lagging. Videos and pictures sent over the app degrade in quality or just do not send. I also feel the terms and conditions that "protect" my information are all but useless, and even if the platform improved, I've lost trust in their so called "security" and I do not feel I can trust them with my information. I don't plan on coming back, even if they fixed all the constant bugs and errors!
Individual contact notifications stopped working. I have a different notification set up for one person and also to bubble the conversation and neither work anymore. I have tried deleting cache and data, uninstall and then reinstall. That will fix it for about an hour and then it goes back to not working again. Everyone else's in my family works no problem with the same settings.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled installed this app twice already. I have ALL my notifications on- birth on the app and on the phone. I'm not on "Do not disturb," yet I still don't get notifications when someone messages me. I have to open the app to see them, so if someone messages me something important and time-sensitive, I miss it. Fix your app, Meta.
I have had to force quit this ridiculous app several times a day, EVERY day, for nearly a week just to send messages, let alone send and listen to voice messages. Sending media? Yeah, it won't even pull up the photos and if it does, the media still may not send. I have written paragraphs, only to have them stuck on sending, having to force quit, and LOSING THAT ENTIRE REPLY. Fix. This. NOW.
Very good app, does exactly as it's meant to do! I've only noticed one major issue... when your friends share multiple videos with you, it takes you into your FB feed in between each video. This happens even when I'm viewing messages through the Messenger app directly. We should be able to just stay in the messages or even scroll through the video messages all at one time, like TikTok. 😁 This has become a pretty annoying issue as 'Reels' become more popular. Would be a 5 ☆ if this was fixed!
It works as described. I haven't had a lot of issues with it other than sometimes messages show up as just the chat bubble. it's like it doesn't load properly. If I close the app and reopen it the messages usually show up. Calling works fairly well. As long as you have strong Wi-Fi and/or data it seems to be fairly consistent. Sometimes the call gets choppy but I think that has more to do with the signal than the app itself.
It is literally the worst messaging app on the face of the planet. How did Meta create this garbage when Instagram works just fine? I can't even watch videos back to back without closing the app and re-opening it. It's like eating a scoop of ice cream, putting it back in the freezer, taking it back out of the freezer, eating another scoop, and then repeating that for the 75 videos my wife sent me. But surprise! Sometimes the ice cream isn't even ice cream because it links to a different video.
I don't like not being able to see my entire message as I'm typing it. 😡 Apparently you've changed this app to show only two lines of text at a time. This is stupid and very annoying! Please change it back so I can see my ENTIRE message as I'm writing it! Add more settings so we can adjust things for the way we like it!!!! This review is NOT for an "older version". I have the most up to date version!
I have been having to force stop and reopen this app dozens of times a day for MONTHS. When I search a chat for something in the past, I can no longer go back to that part of the conversation, it just hangs. When I try to save a photo from a chat, I get a "couldn't save image" error. If I try to share a photo from a chat, I get "Sorry, something went wrong. please try again". The absolute worst, by far.