How To Turn Off Facebook Active Status– Facebook Messenger is no longer just a way for you to share a few jokes with your friends. Instead, depending on the platform you’re using, it can read your SMS messages, make voice calls, and even make video calls.
If it’s all become too much and you’re fed up with being pestered every day, you might want to take a temporary break from Facebook. In other words, it’s time to go invisible and appear offline on the platform.
If you want to log into Facebook without your friends knowing you’re online, you can easily turn off your “active status” so you appear offline. There are three different places where you can control your active status: Facebook in a web browser, the Facebook mobile app, and the Facebook Messenger mobile app.
If you want to make yourself invisible on Facebook and Messenger via the web app, you now need to click on the Messenger icon in the upper right-hand corner.
Or you can click on the Messenger icon and instead select See all in Messenger to jump to the main Messenger interface. Then click on the three dots in the upper left and choose Preferences from the menu.
Whichever approach you use, Facebook will provide you with some extra options to allow you to further customize your invisibility.
Using these options wisely will let you appear offline to some users (for example, employers) while still showing online to specific friends or family members.
Although the Android and iOS Messenger apps still have some very minor design differences, the functionality of the two apps is almost identical. Making yourself invisible while chatting is the same on both platforms.
Open the Facebook Messenger app on your phone.
From the main Chats page, tap your profile’s avatar at the top-left of the screen.
Tap Active Status.
Turn off Show when you’re active by moving the slider to the left and then confirm by tapping Turn Off in the pop-up.