If you don’t want to keep any or an entire chat in your Facebook Messenger, the company allows you to delete individual or all of your messages at once. Here’s how to do that on your desktop and mobile.
Warning: Your deleted messages cannot be recovered so make sure you really want to get rid of your messages.
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Delete Facebook Messenger Messages on Desktop
If you’re using a desktop computer, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook, use the Facebook website to delete individual or all posts from your account.
To get started, launch a web browser on your computer and go to Facebook. Log in to your account on the site if you have not already done so.
Then click the “Messenger” icon in the top right corner of Facebook.
In the Messenger panel at the bottom, click “Show all in Messenger.”
The “Chats” sidebar on the left shows all your conversations. Select the chat in which you want to delete messages.
In the right pane, find the individual message you want to delete. Hover over that message, click the three dots and choose “Delete.”
If you selected the other party’s message and not yours, you will see a “Delete for you” window. Here, to delete the message from your chat history, click on ‘Delete’. The other party still has access to that message.
If you’ve selected your own message, you’ll see the text “Who do you want to delete this message for?” window. In this window, if you want to delete the message for both you and the recipient, click “Unsend for everyone.” If you only want to delete the message from your own chat history, select ‘Delete for you’.
Then click “Delete” in the lower right corner of the window and your message will be deleted.
To delete an entire conversation, find that conversation in the left sidebar.
Hover over that chat, click the three dots, and choose “Delete Chat.”
Click “Delete Chat” in the prompt.
Warning: You cannot recover your deleted chat, so make sure to delete it forever.
And Facebook will delete your selected chat for good. You are done.
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Delete Facebook Messenger Messages on Mobile
On your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, use the Messenger app to delete your individual messages or entire chats.
Start by launching Facebook Messenger on your phone. In the app, tap the conversation you want to delete messages from.
On the conversation page, tap and hold the message to delete it. After selecting the other party’s message, in the menu that opens, select More > Delete. The message will be deleted on your side, but the other party will still have access to it.
After selecting your own message, tap Delete. To delete the message from everyone involved in the chat, choose “Unsend”. If you only want to delete the message from your own chat history, select ‘Delete for you’.
You can also delete entire chats with someone. To do this, in Messenger, tap and hold the chat you want to delete. Then choose ‘Delete’ in the opened menu.
Tap “Delete” in the prompt.
Warning: You can’t recover your deleted messages, so make sure you really don’t want to keep them.
And you have successfully deleted your messages from Facebook Messenger. Enjoying!
Likewise, you can choose to deactivate Facebook Messenger if you don’t plan to use it in the near future.
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