Visually, Messenger Kids is a Betty Crocker confetti cake. The app has the same logo as regular Messenger, but with a lime green color gradient of dots. When a user first opens it—something they ...

Facebook’s Messenger Kids app—the kind of app you put on your child’s device to ensure they can only talk to approved contacts—had a not-so-helpful bug that allowed strangers to interact ...

Again, again and again. She had begun allowing her son Jacob, 7, to use Messenger Kids, a children’s app released by the social media giant several years ago, and as part of its parental-control ...

And so here’s Messenger Kids, a new chat app for 6- to 12-year-olds that will soon arrive in the iOS App Store. As my colleague Nick Statt wrote yesterday, Messenger Kids offers video and text ...

Facebook today is rolling out an updated version of its Messenger Kids app with the goal of making it easier for kids to interact with their friends and family, navigate the app and personalize ...

If your kids are using Facebook’s kid-specific Messenger Kids app now there’s a new feature to help parents have a little more control over that use: Snooze. Launched this week, the new ...

Meta’s Messenger has a new logo set in Facebook blue. The instant messaging app dropped the multicolor gradient used in its ...

Facebook Messenger parental controls have long been available for Messenger Kids – the special version of the chat app designed for children below 13 years of age – but not for teens.

Facebook’s Messenger Kids application, which allows children under 13 to chat with parents’ approval, is today rolling out a small, but notable change – it no longer requires that the ...