
Sadly, Apple is probably not going to give users that choice. Messenger probably isn’t the greatest option for your main messaging app, but being able to reset the default could let you choose apps that offer a better experience than Messenger or Apple’s Messages.Īndroid’s mobile OS already lets users choose their preferred messaging app.


“Generally, everything is moving this direction anyway.” “We feel people should be able to choose different messaging apps and the default on their phone,” Stan Chudnovsky, a Facebook VP, told The Information. Now that iOS 14 lets users select alternative web browser and email apps, Facebook is renewing its Messenger push.

Apparently, Facebook has been trying to convince Apple to let users swap the default messaging app to Messenger for years. Facebook wants you to be able to choose Messenger as the default messaging app on iOS, The Information reports.
