Messenger From Facebook: How to Use the Birthday Chat Theme

Users can add balloons to a conversation's background

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Messenger From Facebook is 10 years old, and to celebrate, Facebook introduced a birthday theme that users can use to customize the look of their conversations.

Our guide will show you how to use the Birthday theme in the Messenger application.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the Messenger app on iOS. Also note, when you change a conversation’s theme to the Birthday theme, the conversation’s emoji will automatically change to the Party Popper emoji.

Step 1: Open the conversation you want to customize and tap the conversation name at the top of the screen.


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