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Yahoo Messenger changed the lives of millions, and thousands of people have sent us letters and photos over the years to share their stories of meeting a spouse over the service, keeping in touch with kids while serving overseas in the military, or introducing grandparents to new members of the family from across the globe,” company writes in a statement.Īfter the shut down, the company stated that the users will get up to end of November to download their chat history if they wished to. As of now, other good alternatives for Yahoo Messenger include WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Signal and Snapchat. In spite of Yahoo Messenger’s demise, your Yahoo account can still be used for other purposes, such as accessing your Yahoo mail. However, on April 4, 2019, it was also shut down after only a year. Over its 20 years, Yahoo Messenger introduced hundreds of millions of people to the joys of just the right emoticon for the moment. In 2018, Yahoo launched an alternative to Yahoo Messenger called Yahoo Squirrel, which was later renamed Yahoo Together. The company never mentioned reasons for shutting down Messenger, but given the dominance today from likes of Facebook’s WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat, WeChat, Instagram Direct, Twitter, LinkedIn and a number of others. YM users will be automatically redirected to Squirrel while new users can ask for an invite to join Squirrel.

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The app is available on both Android and iOS. You can request access to the beta here. As an alternative, users have the choice to use the Squirrel service which has been reported to have the chat and other features that YM offered. Squirrel is a group messaging app Yahoo started testing last month. “We’re constantly experimenting with new services and apps, one of which is an invite-only group messaging app called Yahoo Squirrel (currently in beta).” “There currently isn’t a replacement product available for Yahoo Messenger,” the company writes. It’s reported that the company is developing another messaging app, Squirrel that will probably be a replacement of YM. has decided to finally bring the pioneer web messaging platform Yahoo Messenger (YM) to rest on July 17th, ending its 20 year of service. Unfortunately, there's no telling when Yahoo Squirrel will be released for everyone to replace Yahoo Messenger.U.S based telecommunication firm Verizon Communications Inc. That's why they are introducing a new product called Yahoo Squirrel, which isn’t a replacement for Yahoo Messenger, but an experimental messaging and communication service and app that promises to compete with Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Skype.Īvailable only as an invite-only beta, Yahoo Squirrel promises to be an organized group messaging app for Apple's iOS (works with iPhone and iPad) and Google's Android mobile ecosystems. They are now focusing their efforts on creating new and exciting communication tools. Yahoo said that its fossil Yahoo Messenger client is going away because it no longer meets the needs of today's consumers, and because the communications landscape has evolved a lot since Yahoo Messenger was first introduced.
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To download your chats, go to the downloader request site, sign in with your Yahoo ID, select a verification method, and download the archive to an email address.
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Since you won't be able to access your chats after July 17, 2018, Yahoo will allow you to download all your existing chat history on your PC during the next 6 months. Read our FAQs below for more info on what this means for you," reads the support page. After July 17, you'll no longer be able to access your chats and the service will no longer work. Until then, you can continue to use the service normally.

"Yahoo Messenger will no longer be supported after July 17, 2018. Users will have a little over a moment to use the service, which will no longer be supported after July 17, which means they won't have access to their chats as Yahoo Messenger ceases to work. Yahoo recently announced that it would officially discontinue the Yahoo Messenger app and service beginning July 17, 2018. It's time to say goodbye to an icon, the Yahoo Messenger instant messaging client from Yahoo!, which a generation used on a daily basis to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers for more than a decade.
