Facebook Messenger is an instant chatting social media app that allows you to receive messages from both friends and non – friends as it is a public social media app. Besides the fun of chatting, there might be some people who send us spam messages we don’t like, people who send unsolicited messages, scammers, friends we no longer want to interact with et.al.
How to delete people from Messenger
When we encounter this people, we obviously want to delete them off the app, but unfortunately Messenger no longer has the delete friends feature because this was removed in 2020 when a major update was done.
Although the delete button is not available, but there are other alternatives we can use to delete people we no longer want to interact with from Messenger. The block button is always available, we can only block on Messenger but can’t delete the contact or the person.
You can block someone on Messenger and they won’t see your messages neither will you receive theirs but you can still interact on the main Facebook posts. But if you block on Facebook , they won’t appear on your Messenger and Facebook.
To delete people from a Messenger, the only alternative is blocking them, follow these procedures:
- Go to Messenger app and log in
- Tap on the people icon at the bottom right of your screen. When it opens;
- Click on the info icon with a +sign at the top right corner. This shows you your friend list.
- Select the person you want to delete, or use the search box to save time
- When you find them, tap on it to open conversation.
- Go to the details icon at the top right side of the screen, click on it
- Scroll down and click on block on Messenger to block the person on Messenger only.
Anyone you block on Messenger won’t be able to send you text messages, but you can still interact with them on shared group chats.
If you are not the type to block people, you can unfriend them which is better because they will be unable to find you. That way you can’t see their activities unless you go to their timeline. However they can still send you a friend request later.
- Go to Messenger
- Click on the people icon at the bottom right corner
- Find person you want to unfriend or search them with the search bar
- Click on their profile to go to the DM
- Then click on their profile picture at the top left corner on the screen
- Open their profile picture and choose ‘view profile’
- Select view profile on Facebook, it will redirect you to main Facebook
- Click in the friend option and choose unfriend
- Select confirm to finish.
In addition to that, you can bulk remove unwanted friends at once instead of removing one by one and wasting energy.
- Simply go to Messenger app
- Tap on your profile picture
- Scroll down until you see ‘phone contact’
- Click on it, tap on ‘manage contact’
- Tap delete all. This deletes all the contact. If you don’t want to delete all select the one you want.
- To prevent any further problems, click on upload contact and turn off to prevent contacts from automatically syncing with Messenger. This will save you further troubles.
How to delete someone from Facebook Messenger Group
The truth is that when it comes to group chat, you cannot delete many people at once. You have to do it one by one.
- Go to Messenger app on iOS device or android device.
- Open group conversation that contains the person you want to remove
- Find the person in the conversation and tap on their profile picture
- Scroll down and tap remove from group.
When you remove someone, they will not be able to see or receive messages from the group conversation.
Conclusion
It is important we protect our social media space and weed out unwarranted friends who send spam messages or irrelevant ones that annoys us. Removing them will help you have a peaceful and enjoyable app experience.
This article was first published on July 7, 2022 9:09 p.m. WAT
