Check if user has Facebook Messenger installed iOS 9

Question

Facebook has deprecated the method [FBSDKMessengerSharer messengerPlatformCapabilities] that is used to check if the user has Messenger app installed. In the w

Answer 1

In my case I needed to know whether to show a button users could press to share content on messenger. This worked for my case, and it also checks whether the messenger app is installed.

-(BOOL) canShareViaMessenger {
    [[[FBSDKMessageDialog alloc] init] canShow]
}