YouTube Users Will No Longer Be Able to Direct-Message Each Other After Sept. 18

The feature debuted in August 2017 as a way to share videos with friends

YouTube will pull the plug on its direct-messaging feature Sept. 18.

The Google-owned video site rolled out the feature in August 2017, describing it at the time as a way for users to share videos and chat directly within its mobile application, with a then-new Shared tab housing content distributed in this fashion.

The feature was extended to YouTube for the web last May.

However, in a Google Support post this week, the company wrote, “Two years ago, we launched a feature to enable you to share videos via direct messages on YouTube.

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