Messenger allows different people to send you messages. They can be your friends as well as strangers. Not all strangers might text you with the right intention. Sometimes you face this problem even with your relatives. In order to avoid any further conversation, you may want to remove them but not block them. To tackle such issues, in this article we will give you the answer on how to remove someone from Messenger without blocking.
How to Remove Someone from Messenger Without Blocking?
The best way to avoid someone from messaging you is by blocking them. You can block them on Facebook as well as on Messenger. However, sometimes you may not want to block the person but directly remove them. There are four different options to remove someone from Messenger without blocking them. They are:
Remove Contacts Who are Not Facebook Friends
If there are people who are not your Facebook friends, then it is easy to remove them. When you remove the contacts, you will not see them in your list again. However, this method does not work for people who are your Facebook friends. In order to remove someone from Messenger without blocking them follow these steps:
1. Open Messenger and in the Inbox find the person who you want to remove.
2. Tap and hold the message for a while.
3. Tap on ‘Delete’ to delete the message.
4. Once a pop-up appears tap on ‘Delete’ once again to delete the entire conversation.
Hence by deleting the entire message with a person who is not your friend, you can remove them. This method is only applicable to remove people who are not your friend.
Restrict People on Messenger
This next method is useful for both friends and non-friends on Facebook. This method is very easy as well. You just need to restrict people on Messenger to remove them. When you restrict someone, you will not see their messages in your Inbox. That person also can not see your online status and you can not see them in your contacts list. In order to restrict people on Messenger just follow these steps:
1. Open Messenger and find the person whom you want to restrict.
2. Tap and hold the person’s message for a while.
3. To restrict the person tap on ‘Restrict’.
Hence by following these steps above you can remove someone from Messenger without blocking them as well. This is effective for people who are on your friend list and for people who are not on your list.
Remove Contacts Uploaded from Phone
You can also remove someone from Messenger without blocking them if they are your phone contacts. This method is only useful to remove the contacts from the phone. To remove someone from Messenger without blocking them follow these steps:
1. Open Messenger and then tap on your profile picture.
2. Tap on ‘Phone Contacts’.
3. After that tap on ‘Manage Contacts’.
4. Find ‘Delete All Contacts’ and then tap on it to remove all the contacts from your phone.
So, by following these steps also you can remove people from Messenger without blocking them. The method is the same for smartphones as well as PCs.
Remove Someone from Group
The next option is to remove someone from the Messenger group. When you remove people from the group, they will not be able to see further messages in the group. To remove someone from Messenger without blocking follow these steps:
1. Open the group from where you want to remove someone.
2. Tap on the info button in the group.
3. To view the group members tap on ‘See group members’.
4. Tap the person whom you want to remove from the group.
5. Tap on ‘Remove from group’ to remove the person.
You can also very easily remove people from your Messenger group. This way you will not see them in the group anymore.
How to Remove Facebook Friends from Messenger?
If you want to remove Facebook friends from Messenger then the only option is to block them or restrict them. In order to block them on Messenger tap on their profile on Messenger and tap on the info button. Scroll down to find Block and then tap on it. Choose whether you want to block them on Messenger or Facebook. This way you can remove Facebook friends from Messenger.
Conclusion
The number of people sending spam messages on Messenger is increasing every day. In such times, it is great to know ways you can remove someone from Messenger without blocking them to save your sanity. In this article, we talked about different ways to get rid of contacts from your messenger. We hope this was a helpful article. Let us know if you have any queries.
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