Facebook Messenger is killing the 'Discover' tab to prioritise Stories

Facebook has updated its Messenger app to prioritise Stories and kill off the business and ad-focused'Discover' tab. The update to both iOS and Android gives greater prominence to Stories – a feature copied from Instagram – at the expense of Discover, which was designed to provide users with easy access to businesses, chatbots and games. Facebook announced plans to phase out the Discover tab back in August 2019. 'Simply put, we want to make it more seamless for people to reach out to businesses on Messenger in places where they're already looking to connect,' it said in a blog post at the time. 'Businesses will continue to appear in the app through the search feature and advertising surfaces, making it easy for people to connect with them.'