How To Change Settings For Messenger

Facebook Messenger Privacy Settings

Controls & Settings guide

Messenger makes it easy and fun to stay shut to your favourite people. You tin control your privacy by making certain information individual or public.

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What exercise I demand?

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Restrictions yous tin can apply

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icon Calls & Texts

icon Chatting

icon File Sharing & Hacking

icon Privacy

icon Sharing Data

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Cake someone
If someone is bothering you, you tin block them and they'll no longer exist able to contact yous on Messenger or on Facebook chat.

How to cake someone:
– From Chats, tap on the name of the person y'all want to block
– Tap their picture in the top-left hand corner
– Tap "Block"

How to unblock someone
– From Chats, tap on the name of the person you lot desire to unblock
– Tap their pic in the top-left hand corner
– Tap "Block"

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Report someone
If you come up beyond possible harmful content or behaviour, such as harassment or impersonation, you should report it.

How to report someone:
– From Chats, tap on the name of the person y'all want to report
– Tap their motion picture in the top-left hand corner
– Tap "Something's Wrong" and follow the instructions

If Facebook sees that it violates their Community Standards, they'll take the appropriate action such as disabling accounts or limiting their ability to transport letters.

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Mute someone
Muting someone allows you lot to ignore the messages from that person.

To mute someone:
– From Chats, tap on the name of the person y'all want to report
– Tap their moving picture in the height-left hand corner
– Tap "Mute" and select how long you desire to mute the person for

You won't receive notifications when that person sends yous a new message, simply the messages will still appear in Chats with a Mute icon next to them.

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Modify Story settings
You can choose to share stories with anyone, friends or specific people. You can too hide your story.

– From Chats, tap on your profile pic
– Tap "Privacy", then tap "Story Audition"
– Select the appropriate level of security. It'southward recommended for teens to select the "Friends" selection

To hide your story from someone:

– From "Story Audience"
– Tap "Hide story from" then select whoever y'all desire

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App lock
App Lock is an optional feature that lets you add another layer of security to your private messages and helps prevent other people from accessing them. The feature will require Face ID or your passcode to unlock Messenger.

To enable app lock:
– From Chats, tap on your profile picture
– Tap "Privacy", then tap "App Lock"
– Tap the toggle until it turns green to enable Face up ID
– Tap "Permit" so cull when you want to activate the Confront ID

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Control who sees when yous're active
An Active Status shows your friends and contacts when you're active or were recently agile on Facebook or Messenger. You'll also see when your friends and contacts are active or have been recently active.

How to turn off Active Status:
– From Chats, tap on your profile moving-picture show
– Tap "Privacy", then tap "Active Status"
– Tap the toggle so tap "Turn off". The toggle characteristic should plow grey

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Remove a bulletin that you've sent
You can permanently remove a message that you've sent for anybody in the chat or only for yourself.

To remove a message you sent:
– Open a Messenger conversation
– Tap and hold the message you lot desire to remove
– Tap "More…" then tap "Remove for You" or "Unsend for Everyone"
– So tap "Remove" again

Yous can just remove a message for anybody in the chat up to x minutes after sending a message.

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