Facebook is testing to bring voice and video calls back to its main app

Facebook is planning to bring voice and video calls back to its main app. The company is testing a new feature that allows some users to make voice and video calls from Facebook, without being necessary to open the Messenger app.

The new feature is available to some Facebook mobile users, which may encourage them to use the social media platform as the main way to chat with friends. Messenger and Facebook used to be a single app, but in 2014 Facebook split them into separate apps, and then users were forced to download the Messenger app.

Connor Hayes, director of product management at Messenger said that Facebook is beginning to consider Messenger as a service rather than a standalone app. "You're going to start to see quite a bit more of this over time," Hayes told Bloomberg. He said that Messenger is the "connective tissue" for people to communicate regardless of which service they're using.