Facebook will now allow you to begin cross-app group chats between Messenger and Instagram, the company announced Thursday. The replace is a giant step ahead in Facebook’s ambitions to make its apps work higher with one another. To have the ability to use the cross-app communications, you’ll need to choose in, and Facebook says that “over 70% of eligible people on Instagram have updated to the new Messenger experience.”

The firm is bringing different new options to the messaging apps along with cross-app group messaging. Polls shall be obtainable in group DMs on Instagram and in cross-app chats so you’ll be able to, for instance, vote on the place to seize lunch. Facebook has added group typing indicators to Messenger, so you’ll be able to see when a number of persons are drafting a message. (It’s unclear from Facebook’s weblog submit if group typing indicators are coming to Instagram as effectively, however I’ve requested the corporate to make clear that.) And now you can use Facebook’s Watch Together function to observe movies out of your Instagram feed with your folks.

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Facebook can be including new chat themes to Messenger, together with a “cottagecore” theme, one impressed by J Balvin’s newest album, and an astrology theme.