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This wikiHow teaches you how to hide your online status on Facebook Messenger, as well as how to hide your online contact list. Note that the “Last Active” timestamp will reflect when you started going offline, and you can’t hide it. You must go offline on both the Messenger app and the Facebook website for your profile to appear offline.
Steps
Hide on phone
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Open Messenger. Tap the Messenger app icon, which looks like a white lightning bolt on a green conversation bubble background. The Messenger home page will open if you’re signed in.
- If you’re not signed in to Messenger, enter your phone number, tap Continue , and enter your password.
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Tap the anthropomorphic People card at the bottom of the screen (iPhone) or the top of the screen (Android). A list of people who are online will appear.
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Click the Active tab. The option is near the top of the screen, just below the search bar.
- If the Active tab is blue, it means you’ve opened it.
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Tap the green switch 
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to the right of your name at the top of the screen; the switch will turn white
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. At this point, other Facebook users will see you are offline.
- On Android, this switch will be blue or blue instead of green.
- The “Last Active” timestamp that appears next to your name when you go offline will reflect when you pressed this switch.
Hide on the computer
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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/ on a web browser. The News Feed page will appear if you are logged into Facebook.
- If you’re not logged into Facebook, enter your email address (or phone number) and password before continuing.
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Click the Messenger chat bubble with lightning bolt icon in the upper right of the Facebook page. A drop-down menu will appear.
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Click See All in Messenger. The option is in the lower-left corner of the Messenger drop-down menu.
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Click Settings 
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. The gear-shaped option is in the upper left of the Messenger window. Another drop-down menu will pop up.
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Click Settings . It’s at the top of the drop-down menu.
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Click the green switch
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at the top of the page next to your name. The switch will turn white
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and hide your profile from your friends’ “Active Now” lists.
- The “Last Active” timestamp that appears next to your name when you go offline will reflect when you clicked this switch.
Hide Active Now list
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Open Facebook. Go to https://www.facebook.com/ on a web browser. The News Feed page will appear if you are logged into Facebook.
- If you’re not logged into Facebook, enter your email address (or phone number) and password before continuing.
- You cannot hide the Active Now list on the Messenger mobile app.
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You need to make sure the sidebar is open. If there is no online contact list on the right side of the page, the Active Now list is hidden.
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Click Settings 
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. The gear-shaped option is at the bottom of the sidebar. A menu will pop up.
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Click Hide Sidebar . The option is in the middle of the menu. The Facebook chat bar will disappear from the left side of the screen along with all the “Active Now” green dots and associated usernames.
- If you want to reopen the sidebar, click the Chat bar in the lower right corner of the Facebook window.
Advice
- The “Active Now” section will reappear from time to time if a new contact has started online.
Warning
- You cannot remove the word “Last Active” displayed when you go offline.
- You cannot hide the “Active Now” section without turning off the Chat box on Messenger desktop version.
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