Facebook launches revamped message compose interface on Messenger
As part of today’s rollout of Facebook’s AI-powered personal assistant to all users in the United States, the social networking company mentioned that you should now start seeing a redesigned message composer interface within the mobile Messenger app. We first caught wind of this new iOS 10 Messages-style chat experience two months ago, when Facebook was still testing the redesign with a small percentage of users. The new way to compose messages is currently rolling out to Messenger users across the globe.
“This update offers an easier way to access and discover Messenger features like our rich visual messaging tools and the ability to quickly share content like video and images directly from the text composer with a long press,” says Facebook.
The revamped chat composer moves the plus button along with the camera, media picker and voice messaging icons to the leftmost side. While the text field itself is now narrower than before, it expands when tapped and automatically hides all the controls behind the arrow icon—just like with Messages on iOS 10.
The emoji button is now located inside the text field, at the rightmost side for quick access. Tapping it brings up a slightly reworked emoji picker with three dedicated tabs for switching between browsing Messenger stickers, GIFs and emoji.
Tapping the plus button at the leftmost side brings up a new panel with shortcuts to additional actions like Location, Set Event Reminder (previously available via Messenger’s dedicated apps browser), Video Clip and More. Lastly, tapping the More button reveals additional Messenger features such as Games, Payments, Share Location and Rides.
Earlier this morning, Facebook announced that its AI-driven personal assistant, dubbed M, is now available to all Messenger users in the United States. Now fully automated, M interjects in your chat threads to offer you suggestions related to the conversation at hand, including things like getting a ride via Lyft or Uber, paying or requesting money, sending stickers and more.
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Source: Facebook
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