FB Messenger will not open on Apple Watch

I can also confirm that the workaround no longer works with the latest releases. Though the Messanger app for Apple Watch still downloads and installs onto Series 3 and the lates watchOS, the app simply hangs and never loads, no matter what fixes are applied. It simply doesn't function.

The only time I am able to interact with FB messages at all on Watch is when they initially come in, by responding to the notification — but this is a feature of Notifications and not of the app (which doesn't need to be installed at all in order to do this). But the app itself never works, so you cannot initiate messages, view older messages, etc.

It’s a bad joke - nothing on the watch still and an app that crashes on iPhone when you try to launch it. This is ‘improvement’?? I know Apple and Facebook don’t like each other much - but we are their customers - and we are being fed s**t. Unbelievable - irritating and pathetic.

If it has been ‘pulled’ as you suggest then Apple need to get it off the Watch App Store (as an ‘editor’s choice’ 😂) and not offer something that is a blatant fail. I know it’s not an Apple app - but they have a responsibility as well - to stop dangling in front of our faces in order that we end up here - on this forum - moaning as we all are out of frustration, anger and impotence because NEITHER Apple NOR Facebook will fix it or genuinely ‘pull it’.

As I just wrote - Apple need to sort out their side of this - and take the Messenger watch app completely out of the equation. They DO have a responsibility to their customers - at least to the extent that apps they recommend in the App Store (run by Apple) which are c**p or worse - should be removed.

Updated Messenger on iPhone yesterday (22/06/2018) and Messenger is back and working on Apple Watch!! No fixes or tricks - it just worked. Beware - tap on a chat and you will (or may) get the revolving wheel of death - but eventually they load. They can also be slow to update - but let’s hope there will be fixes in future updates for speed. It seems that at last users were listened to. My thumbs were bleeding from the number of ‘problem reports’ I sent. Phew.

Not in Facebook - but in the Messenger app itself. On either iPhone or iPad - open messenger - tap your image (top left) and in the menu you’ll see ‘Report a Problem’. That’s what I did - many, many, many times !

Today I noticed that the Messenger app doesn/t work again on Apple Watch anymore. I checked after you notified us some days ago, it was working, but didn't need to launch it again. Until today. And, guess what, I have the same issue...

That's weird - mine is, as I write, still working. It can take time to update I'll admit and they need to work on it - a lot!! I've found a 'chat' gives it a kick start - past and inactive chats are not loading - but a chat I'm currently having is updating fine ....... maybe ask someone to send a message, see if it gets it moving. Sorry you're having problems though. As I say - it's far from perfect but, for me, right now, it's working......

For a moment I thought there was hope but... I wouldn't say the app is working. Some functions do, it's still not usable though. I guess that the latest Messenger update accidentally messed with the code allowing the watch app to work again. Sometimes conversations load, sometimes they do not. Even if they do, it takes forever. The core of the issue is that the majority of Messenger community isn't using Apple Watch. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think they really started fixing the app. I think that Facebook employees have other issues at hand to work on and we won't be getting a fix any time soon. I don't think many Apple Watch users have really reported anything, and so it is.

Update 170.0 for me.

You're welcome! 🙂

I’m having the same problem and just bought my watch yesterday. I’ve tried to reach out to Facebook but can’t get help

Same probkem with my new Watch 3. I bought it on March 7. Do you still habe the problem or could you solve it?

I’m still having the issue. I did find that the Facebook messenger app isn’t compatible with the watch OS