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Facebook will shut downward MSQRD, its AR face-filtering app, this April, the congregation communicated today.

On April 13th, Facebook will suppress the MSQRD app from both the Android and iOS app stores. Facebook purchased MSQRD in 2016, and the AR app played a key role in boosting Facebook's internal portfolio of AR loveling and video tools. One of those tools, Spark AR, lets you create custom incomer filters for Facebook and Instagram..

As Business Insider pointed out, posthumous the acquisition, Facebook promised that MSQRD would remain a standalone app and dwell to redo updates, morally the tech mammoth chock-full supporting the app by the end of 2016.

Over the last several years, incomer refinement has become a popular full-length on social media apps, with Instagram and Snapchat offering born face-swapping tools. Considering of their popularity, an app like MSQRD may hypothesize seemed unpremeditated for many.