How to Remove Someone from Messenger Without Blocking?

Today people are accustomed to social media platforms to chat with their loved ones living far away from them. No wonder Facebook Messenger has gained immense popularity among millions of Facebook users who use it to text with their friends regularly. 

In certain circumstances, when you have no longer a friendship with someone on Facebook, then you may desire to remove them from your messenger contacts. 

Unfortunately, Facebook does not possess any feature that will let you remove the person from your contact rather update the “Delete” button to “Block”. 

But, there are still some workarounds that will let you delete your contacts whom you don’t want to be in your contact list.

 Are you looking for how to delete contacts in Messenger?

Well, we are here with some common tips and tricks to help you do so.

How to Delete Someone from Messanger

Here is how to delete people on messenger

• Launch your messenger app
• Tap on the “People ” icon located at the right side of the screen
• Click on the plus icon located at the top of the contacts
• Here you see your contact list, click on the person whom you wish to delete.
• Click on the info icon located at the top right corner of the screen.
• Scroll down to find the “Block” button and tap on “Block on Messanger” and “Block on Facebook” from the drop-down menu.
• Once done. You will be redirected to the “Facebook” and tap on the “Block” button again to confirm the block.

You have successfully removed the person from your messenger app whom you wish to do.

How to Block Someone from Messanger Group Chat

Since deleting someone from your messenger is not so easy, Facebook has removed many confusing options and updated them in 2020.

Now the “Delete Contact” option changed to simply Block. Henceforth, if you want to delete someone from your messenger app, you need to “Block” them. We have come up with the steps to remove or block someone from your Messanger Group chat.

• Launch your messenger App
• Tap on the “Group Chat” from which you wish to remove someone.
• Click on the “Profile” of the person whom you wish to remove.
• Tap on the “remove from group” option displayed on your screen.
• Now the person will get removed from the list.
• They will be notified that they have been removed from the group.

Using the aforementioned methods you can delete someone from your Messanger app or your group chat on Messanger.