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In the last quarter of 2018, Facebook has introduced a feature that allows all users to delete messages sent on Messenger. Thanks to this new feature, therefore, information technology is possible to delete a message not merely from your ain chat, just also from that of the recipient.

If you have the impression that you take not received the function in question, brand sure y'all have updated the official Messenger app on your Android or iOS device (at the fourth dimension of writing, the Messenger application for Windows ten does not integrate the related part deleting messages for all) following the procedures described below.


  • Android - open up the Play Store, tap on the pulsating (≡) che si trova in alto a left and seleciona la voce Le mie app ei miei giochi from the bar that appears laterally. Then check for any updates for Messenger and pulsing on pulsatingUpdateplaced next to the app icon (if agolable).
  • iOS - open theApp Shop, tap on the pulsating Update located at the bottom right, find any updates for Messenger and pulsing on pulsating Update placed next to the app icon (if present).

For more data on how to update Messenger, conont the in-depth study that I linked to you: there y'all will find fifty-fifty more than detailed information in this regard.

As for the message deletion feature on Messenger, I want to tell you that this can be done within 10 minutes of sendingof the message to be deleted: after this time, it volition be possible to remove the bulletin simply from your ain conversation and not from that of the recipient.

Besides note that by deleting the message from the recipient'southward chat, the recipient will display the message "[Your name] has removed a bulletin". If everything is clear and then far, I would say that we tin can continue in earnest!

Delete a bulletin on Messenger before it is read by smartphones and tablets

Delete a message on Messenger before it is read direct giving smartphone due east tablet is a very simple operation: all you lot have to practise is access the famous messaging app, locate the chat y'all are interested in, select the message y'all want to delete and remove information technology for anybody, calling the advisable role from the application menu (a provided that the message has been sent less than x minutes ago).

To proceed, therefore, kickoff the official Messenger app on your Android or iOS device, log in to your account (if necessary) and tap on conversazione of your interest. At this indicate, locate the bulletin you desire to delete earlier information technology is read past the recipient and brand a long tap on it, in order to select information technology.

And so select the item Remove that appears in the lower right corner of the screen, select the item Remove for all from the menu that opens and confirms the operation by answering Remove to the question Do you want to remove the message for anybody? in the box that appears on the screen. If the user has not already read the message, he or she volition not be able to view it even in the futurity: in its identify, in fact, information technology will display the message "[Your name] has removed a message".

In example yous practise not come across the wording Remove for all, just only the option Remove for you after selecting the message you lot desire to delete and tapping the button Remove, it is likely that more than 10 minutes have already passed since the sending of the latter e, therefore, information technology is no longer possible to cancel it.

If, on the other he, less than 10 minutes accept passed since the message was sent but you still practise not encounter the option in question, it may be that you have not updated the Facebook Messenger app on your device.

Delete a bulletin on Messenger before it is read by the computer

Y'all would like to know if it is possible to delete a message you take sent on Facebook Messenger by interim straight from estimator, maybe because right now you don't accept your smartphone or tablet at he? Of class you tin! You lot can do this either by acting from the primary page ofFacebook than proceeding directly from Messenger.com: everything is explained beneath.

Facebook

If you prefer to deed directly fromFacebook, the first thing yous demand to do is connect to the main page of the social network using your favorite browser and log into your business relationship (if you have not already done so). After that y'all take to click on the push button Messages (fifty'icona della speech chimera with the symbol of arrow inside) and select theconversazione of your interest from the box that opens.

Once the chat of your involvement is open, hover the mouse cursor over the message yous desire to delete (before it is read by the recipient), click on the symbol (...) that appears side by side to it (on the left) and click on the particular Remove.

In the box Who do you want to remove this bulletin for?, then select the selection Remove for all and click the blue button Remove at the bottom right. If the user has non already read the bulletin you lot take decided to delete, they will non be able to read it even in the future east, in its place, will display the message "[Your name] has removed a message".

If afterward selecting the bulletin you lot want to delete and clicking the push button Remove, you shouldn't run into the optionRemove for all but but thatRemove for y'all, evidently more than 10 minutes accept passed since the message was sent e, therefore, you lot no longer take the possibility to delete information technology.

Messenger.com

If you prefer to proceed from Messenger.cominstead, connected to the main page of the service, log in to your business relationship (if you have not already done so) and open the conversation on which you intend to delete one or more messages sent.

Then hover the mouse cursor over the message yous desire to delete, click on the symbol (...) that appears next to information technology (on the left) and click on the particular Remove. Then select the option Remove for all from the box that opens and click on the itemRemove placed at the bottom right of the box in question. One time the bulletin has been deleted, the recipient volition no longer be able to view information technology (its only "trace" will be the presence of the message "[Your name] has removed a message").

In example y'all were not able to delete the message in question using the procedure described to a higher place, it is likely that more than than 10 minutes have passed since the bulletin was sent.