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This article explains how to permanently unsend a message you've sent using
Facebook Messenger. You can remove the message from your own chat history or for everyone on the chat.
How to Unsend Facebook Messages in a Web Browser
Here's how to unsend a Messenger message in a web browser:
Select More (three dots), and then select Remove.
Select Unsend for everyone to remove the comment from the conversation, and then select Remove.
Click Okay to confirm.
The text you sent is gone. In its place, a bubble says, "You unsent a message." This bubble is visible to all participants.
How to Unsend Messages in the Facebook Messenger App
Whether you have an Android or an iPhone, the process for unsending a message sent from the app is the same.
Tap and hold the message you want to unsend.
Select More.
Tap Unsend.
Choose Unsend for Everyone to remove the message from all chat participants' threads. Alternatively, tap Unsend for You to remove it from your chat but leave it on other participants' threads.
Select OK to confirm.
The item you unsent has "You unsent a message" in its place. Everyone in the conversation can see this.
The unsend feature might not be available if you use a messaging app that integrates with Facebook other than Facebook Messenger.
Why Would You Want to Unsend Facebook Messages?
Let's say you just sent a message you instantly regretted, or you accidentally sent a personal message to the wrong person. Until 2018, Facebook messages could not be unsent or removed from the recipient's inbox. Now, you can take back your words, GIFs, emojis, or anything else you sent to an individual or group of people.
Can People Still See Unsent Facebook Messages?
Unsending a message deletes it from the conversation, so it might disappear before the recipient actually sees it. However, it's very possible they've already viewed the message, especially if it was sent some time previously. The recipient will see that you've unsent a message.
As part of its mission to prevent cyberbullying, Facebook administrators can see unsent messages for a short time in case a message is reported for policy violations. When someone unsends a message, the message is replaced by text indicating the message was
removed. That way, you can report users for harassment by tapping the sender's name, then selecting Something's Wrong in the Facebook Messenger app.
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Facebook Messenger is a messaging platform developed by Facebook in 2011. Used by billions of users worldwide, Messenger is often used to share photographs and interact with connections. The application is mostly used in conjunction with Facebook via desktop browser, or you can use the Messenger app on your Android or your iOS device. Messenger has extended its reach across Facebook services and products.
Messenger is an instant messaging platform that offers one-on-one and group messaging services. However, you can use the platform to connect with your friends via voice and video calls. Additionally, you can add a lot of life to your conversations on Messenger using AR effects, GIFs, stickers, and emojis. With emojis, you can also customize reactions to your friend’s messages on the platform.
Messenger also comes with a feature called unsend. Once you unsend a message on the platform, it won’t appear in the chat anymore. This feature can be used in private chats as well as group chats. While Messenger allows you to unsend messages, it still keeps a copy of the message on its server. Facebook Messenger can review these messages up to a certain time after they are unsent. So, when you unsend a message on Messenger, does the other person come to know about it? Well, we will try to figure this out. But before that, let us have a clear understanding of how you can unsend messages on Facebook Messenger.
How can you unsend messages on Facebook Messenger?
Before we delve deeper into the matter at hand here – the consequences of unsending a message – let’s learn about how the unsending feature works on Messenger. After all, this is a relatively new feature on the platform and not all of us might’ve had the opportunity to use it yet. For those who hadn’t, we’re here to help!
On your smartphone:
To get the hang of how to unsend messages on the platform using Messenger’s mobile app, follow the step-by-step guide mentioned below:
Step 1: Open the Facebook Messenger app on your device and tap on the chat from which you want to unsend a particular message.
Step 2: Now, give a long tap on the message you wish to unsend. This will display a couple of options that you can do with the selected message.
Step 3: You will see four options: Reply, Copy, Forward, and Remove. Tap on Remove. Step 4: As soon as you tap on Remove, you will see two options: Unsend and Remove for you. From the options, select Unsend. Messenger will immediately remove your message, and you can now see You unsent a message.
When you unsend a message on Facebook Messenger, multiple things happen in the background that you might not be aware of. You might be worried that the recipient had seen the message before it was unsent, or you might wonder whether they have received a notification about your activity. There are a couple of questions that can hover over your mind.
When you choose to unsend a message on Facebook Messenger, the person on the other end won’t be able to view it. When you unsend a message, the message does not get archived. The message simply gets removed from your chatbox so that the recipient will no more be able to view it.
The recipient will anyway be notified in the chatbox itself that you have unsent a message. Unlike Instagram, Facebook Messenger tells the recipient when you unsend a message. However, they won’t come to know what the message was about unless they had seen it before it was unsent. So, before you decide to unsend a text message on the platform, kindly note if the message has been seen by them or not. This is because once you unsend a text after it has already been seen, it makes no sense. If you unsend a text message while having a conversation with the person, they most likely had seen the message before it was unsent.
This is because they were most probably on their smartphone when the message was sent in the first place, and they would have received a notification about it. Even if their chat box wasn’t open, they might have seen the message in the notification itself before you decided to unsend the message. Please note that notifications disappear when you unsend a message. Thus, you need not worry about the message being there in their notifications once you have unsent it.
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