How to hide online on Facebook Chat and Messenger

How to turn off online status completely on Facebook? This is a question that many people wonder, need to find answers. In fact, if you want to turn off the online status completely, you must manipulate it on both Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps at the same time.

So invite you to follow the article below to know how to hide Facebook online status on both phones and computers:

How to turn off Facebook online status completely on your phone

Turn off online status from Facebook application

Facebook for Android      Facebook for iOS

Open the Facebook app on your phone, tap the 3 dashes icon in the bottom right corner, then scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy> Settings (Settings). Then, scroll down to the Privacy section , click the Active Status option.

Set the switch in the Show when you're active option to the left, then click the Off button to turn off online status on Facebook.

At this point, you have only completed half of your anonymous journey, to completely turn off your online status, you need to go to the next step below:

Turn off online status on the Messenger app

Facebook Messenger for Android     Facebook Messenger for iOS

Open the Facebook Messenger app, click the avatar icon in the upper right corner of the home screen. Click Active Status.

Now, simply turn off the switch next to the Show when you're active option , then press the Disable button .

From now on, you can freely browse News feeds on Facebook or message on Facebook Messenger while no one knows you're online.

How to hide Facebook online status on the Web

The offline way on Messenger

To get started, click on the Messenger icon in the blue bar at the top of Facebook's main screen (next to the notification icon), then click See all in Messenger .

On the main Messenger screen, you need to click on the gear icon in the upper left corner. Click that and select Settings .

In the new window that pops up, in the Active Status section , slide the toggle button at Show when you're active to the Off position. Click Done to finish.

The offline way on Facebook Chat

You can also set yourself invisible on Facebook Chat using the tools on the main Facebook screen. Facebook Chat provides more granular control over your offline capabilities.

Chat is located in the table on the right of the screen. To turn chat off, click the gear icon in the bottom right corner (next to the Search bar - Search).

Here, you can make specific settings. Users will see 2 options are Turn Off Chat (Turn off status) and Turn Off Video / Voice Calls (Turn off video / voice calls) . You can turn off both or turn off one and let the other work if you want.

Users can only offline or online with one or several people they want. Click and Turn Off Chat and a new window will pop up.

Choose one of the two bottom options: Turn off chat for all contacts except (Turn off the active status of all contacts except ...) or Turn off chat for some contacts only contacts ...) allows you to control exactly who can and cannot see you online. Just enter another person's name in the box and click OK when done.

Similarly, the Turn Off Video / Voice Calls option also provides detailed settings. When you click, you can choose to turn off the feature for 1 hour, until 8am the next day or until you want to turn it back on.

Finally, another very important option is Block Settings . It allows you to completely block certain people who may contact you. Just on the Block Settings , add the name you want to block in the box Block Users (Block users) and click Block (Block) to set up.

How to hide online status on Facebook for Windows

Like on mobile, Windows also has 2 versions of Facebook: one is the basic Facebook application and the other is a Facebook Messenger application.

Download Facebook for Windows Download Facebook Messenger for Windows

If you use the main Facebook application, you can be offline using the offline method on Facebook Chat we said above. There is no way to access Messenger.

If you only use the Messenger app (not Facebook), click the People icon in the lower right corner, select the Active tab at the top of the page. Swipe the button next to your name as you like.

If you want to hide online status on Facebook with everyone or someone, after reading this article, you definitely know how to do it, right?

If you want to know more tips and tricks about Facebook Messenger, you can find other articles about this application on download.vn such as:

• The meaning of the green ticks in Facebook Messenger
• How to connect Facebook Messenger with a Code