YouTube brings back in-app private messaging for users 18 and older
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Jess Weatherbed
Summary
YouTube is reintroducing in-app private messaging after discontinuing its previous chat feature in 2019. The feature is rolling out to users aged 18+ in the US and other global regions. YouTube had briefly offered DMs in 2017 before shutting them down two years later to focus on public conversations and Stories, which was also discontinued in 2023. The new feature allows users to share videos and have conversations about them directly within the app.
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· 3 pulledYouTube is reintroducing private messaging after testing new ways for users to share videos and 'have conversations about them' last year.
YouTube says it's now starting to expand the in-app video sharing and messaging feature to users in the US and 'other global regions' who are 18 or older.
The video sharing platform had previously introduced private messaging in 2017, before discontinuing it just two years later to focus on public conversations like the Instagram-like Stories feature.
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