How to Tell if Someone Blocked You on Messenger
Messenger never tells you that someone blocked you, so there is no single screen that confirms it. What you get instead is a pattern: messages that will not send, an...
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How to Delete or Unsend Messages on Messenger
To unsend a message on Messenger, tap and hold it, tap Delete, then choose Delete for everyone. That removes it from the chat for everyone in the conversation. What it...
How to Hide Your Active Status on Messenger
To appear offline on Messenger, turn off Active status in Messenger's settings. You may also need to turn it off in the Facebook app. Once both are off, people no...
How Disappearing Messages Work on Messenger
Disappearing messages on Messenger is a timer you set on an end-to-end encrypted chat so that messages delete themselves after they have been seen. It replaced vanish mode, the old...
Messenger Group Chats: Admin Controls, Muting and Leaving Quietly
Messenger group chats have admins, and the admin controls decide who can join, who can be removed and whether an invite link exists. For everyone else, the two useful controls...
Where Messenger Message Requests Go (Including Filtered Requests)
Messages from people you are not connected with on Facebook do not land in your main Chats list. They go to Message requests, which you open in the Messenger app...
Messenger Scams and Hacked-Account Messages: How to Spot Them
Most Messenger scams follow one of two scripts: a stranger with an offer that needs money or personal details, or a message from a friend's hacked account asking for something...
How to Hide Your Online Status and Last Seen on WhatsApp
To hide your online status and last seen on WhatsApp, go to Settings, then Privacy, then Last seen and online, and choose who can see it: Everyone, My contacts, My...
How to Recover a Hacked WhatsApp Account
To recover a hacked WhatsApp account, open WhatsApp on your own phone with your SIM card in it, register your phone number again, and enter the six-digit code WhatsApp sends...
How to See Deleted WhatsApp Messages (and What Actually Works)
There is no button in WhatsApp that shows you a deleted message, and WhatsApp itself says it cannot recover deleted messages for you. What can work is narrow: restoring a...
How to Know if Someone Blocked You on WhatsApp
WhatsApp will not tell you if someone has blocked you, and it deliberately makes the signs hard to read. When a contact blocks you, your messages stop at one gray...
WhatsApp Business vs WhatsApp: Which Should You Use?
Use regular WhatsApp if you are messaging friends and family, and the WhatsApp Business app if customers contact you about something you sell or a service you run. Both are...
