Yahoo messenger will be shutting down on July 2018

Yahoo messenger will be discontinued on July 17, 2018 after 20 years of service. yahoo announced that yahoo messenger be no longer supported after july 17 encompassing the closure of apps for ios and android and any web browser clients via techcrunch the service will function normally until then and after that date users will no longer able to access their chats and the messenger as a whole will be shut down.

The company promise the discontinuation of yahoo messenger will not impact a user's yahoo ID so it will continue to work for products like yahoo mail and yahoo fantasy as for a reason yahoo said that it focusing on building and introducing new exciting communications that would be a bettter fit for its customers.

We know we have many loyal fans who have used the yahoo messenger since its beginning as one of the first chat apps of its kind as the communication landscape continues to change over we are focusing on building and introducing new exciting communication tools that better fit to consumer needs there currently isn't a replacement for yahoo messenger however so the company pointed users toward the invite-only group messaging app yahoo squirrel.

Squirrel is still in the testing phase and allows groups to organize private chats with friends and family members in a style similar to slack disport. yahoo originally debuted its yahoo messenger app on the ios app store on april 2009 giving users ability to instant message their contact when away from their computer in the year since messaging app like apple I'm sage, facebook messenger and others have searched in popularity and cause users to leave yahoo's platform for one's more popular among their own friends group.

Today yahoo messenger is number 167 on the app store's most downloaded social media app list prior to its appear on the app store yahoo messenger debuted in 1998 pager as an instant messaging client that users can download for free to chat with friends.

In 2018 yahoo said that users will be able to download thier chat history to computer or other device for next six months and more information can be found in the FAQ section of the announcement page.

Yahoo messenger closure in 2018 following the sunsetting of AOL instant messenger in december 2017 both of which are owned by parent company oath and lasted for around 20 years online.