Unlock all the features you could ever want in Facebook Messenger with SNMessenger

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Facebook’s Messenger app remains one of the most popular alternative communication apps when compared to Apple’s built-in iMessage platform, especially given the fact that it’s universally compatible between various platforms while iMessage remains only an iPhone-to-iPhone system.

Having said that, if you use Messenger to communicate with your friends, family, or even co-workers, then you may want to take advantage of a new and free jailbreak tweak called SNMessenger by iOS developer NguyenASang, as it brings a lot of missing features to the platform that we think users will love.

As you can see in the screenshot example above, you can access the SNMessenger tweak’s options by tapping on the gear cog icon in the Messenger app’s Settings page. Once you do, you will find an entire suite of options waiting for you to command:

Among the different kinds of things that you can configure here are:

Remove ads from the Messenger app
Show the eye button to enable or disable read receipts quickly
Forcefully enable always sending HD photos
Require confirmation for audio and video calls
Disable the long press to change the theme
Disable read receipts so that your recipient doesn’t know you’ve seen their message
Disable the typing indicator so that your recipient doesn’t know you’re typing
Hide notification badges in the chat top bar
Configure the keyboard state after entering the chat
Enable the ability to save friends’ Stories
Disable the Stories preview
Disable the seen receipts that let friends know you’ve seen their Stories
Extend the story video upload length up to 10 minutes
Hide the Status Bar when viewing Stories (only for iOS 12)
Never replay a story after reacting to it
Hide the People tab from the user interface
Hide the Stories tab from the user interface
Hide the Notes row from the user interface
Hide the Search bar from the user interface
Hide the suggested contacts in search
Apply any settings you’ve made

The range of options that you can configure here mean that you can tailor Facebook’s Messenger app to your needs, including giving yourself inconspicuous behavior that doesn’t notify friends of your activities, hiding unwanted elements from the user interface, enabling higher quality or longer length media, and more…

If you’re interested in giving the SNMessenger tweak a try because you actively use the Messenger app from Facebook, then you can download it for free from the developer’s personal repository via your jailbroken device’s primary package manager app. The tweak is also fully open source on the developer’s GitHub page.

Anyone who isn’t already using NguyenASang’s repository can add it to their device by using the URL provided below: