Update to the Windows Live Messenger iPhone app

As we talked about earlier this summer, we believe it’s important that Messenger lets you stay in touch from your devices. On June 21st, we released the Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone. Since then, the Messenger app has reached #1 in the iTunes app marketplace at some point in time in over 50 countries, and we’ve had nearly 7 million downloads worldwide. Thank you for the great support you’ve given us!

Today we’re releasing an update for the Messenger iPhone app. In addition to supporting iOS 4, we’ve focused product improvements on three key areas:

  1. Facebook chat integration
  2. Addressing top customer feedback requests
  3. Adding more languages – 31 total
You can download Messenger for iPhone for free from the iTunes App Store.

Facebook chat

A few weeks ago, we added support for chatting with your Facebook friends in the Messenger beta for your PC. Now you can also get Facebook chat in the Messenger app for your iPhone.

 

When you select someone on the Friends tab, it figures out which network that person is connecting from, so you can chat with them there. For example, if Jean uses both Messenger and Facebook but is currently only signed in to Facebook, then when you can tap her name, you’ll start chatting with her in Facebook. You can also explicitly choose to chat with someone in Messenger vs. Facebook by choosing the Send IM (Facebook) option in the slide-out menu of their profile picture.



Facebook chat is available in the U.S., UK, France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia, and will expand to other countries over time. If you’re in one of these countries, you can enable this from your profile page.



Easier ways to manage your presence and view friends’ statuses

Two of the most common things we heard from your feedback are:

  1. You’ve had difficulty finding where to sign out from
  2. You don’t always want to see all your friends, and sometimes only want to see those who are online
We’ve made appropriate design changes to specifically address these issues. Signing out is now more prominent, with a clear status button at the top-right of the Friends tab:



And, we’ve added the ability to easily filter to just those friends who are online,or your favorites, or in other categories:



Languages now supported in the update

With this update supporting more languages – 31 total – you can continue to stay connected with the people that matter most , now in the language you use most.

Messenger for iPhone is now available in Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

We hope that you enjoy the new updates and keep sending us your feedback.

 

Ye Gu
Group Program Manager, Windows Live mobile services

 

PS: This update has been released, but may take several hours to appear in the App Store in all regions.


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