

Is it a friend’s birthday? Give them a nickname (maybe birthday girl or birthday boy) for a day and make the emoji in the chat a birthday cake. With various color choices and emojis, you can now make your chat more personal. You can also customize your conversations with different people and groups. To send a GIF, use a third party keyboard (such as the Google keyboard), search for GIFs in their library, and send a more expressive message. Starting now, people can express themselves more in chats with family and friends by sending and playing animated GIFs. While you could receive GIFs in Messenger Lite for some time, they were not animated. Intended for people with less powerful Android devices and/or slower Internet connections, the app that offers the core features of Messenger, is still under 10MB making it fast to install and quick to start up.

Messenger Lite for Android, a slimmed down version of Messenger, just got richer with more features that allow you to better express yourself and share more with family and friends. By Krish Gali, Product Manager December 5, 2018
