If you've recently updated your Facebook Messenger smartphone app ... Together with the new logo, the company also rolled out chat themes, allowing you to make your chats a bit more colorful.

WhatsApp is introducing Chat themes, allowing users to customize chat bubbles and backgrounds. Users can choose from 8 preset themes or customize their own for individual conversations.

Another new feature in Messenger is a Space Jam chat theme, which should appeal both to the fans of the original movie, and the new Space Jam movie (which, in our opinion, isn't that great ...

The upgrade includes themes, custom emojis ... planning to eventually make end-to-end encryption the default chat experience on Messenger, catching up to rivals like Apple’s iMessage.

Messenger once allowed users to chat across platforms, but now Meta is emphasizing the app’s ties to Facebook.

The feature is currently under development so Chat Themes preview isn't available ... the case with other Meta apps like ...

The chat customising feature that lets you change the theme or colours is also available ... you will now see a Messenger icon instead of the regular classic Instagram DM icon you saw earlier.