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Delete that message you just sent and forget all about it

This article explains how to permanently unsend a message you've sent using Facebook Messenger. You can remove the message from your own chat history or for everyone on the chat.

How to Unsend Facebook Messages in a Web Browser

Here's how to unsend a Messenger message in a web browser:

1. Select More (three dots), and then select Remove.

2. Select Unsend for everyone to remove the comment from the conversation, and then select Remove.

3. Click Okay to confirm.

4. The text you sent is gone. In its place, a bubble says, "You unsent a message." This bubble is visible to all participants.

How to Unsend Messages in the Facebook Messenger App

Whether you have an Android or an iPhone, the process for unsending a message sent from the app is the same.

1. Tap and hold the message you want to unsend.

2. Select More.

3. Tap Unsend.

4. Choose Unsend for Everyone to remove the message from all chat participants' threads. Alternatively, tap Unsend for You to remove it from your chat but leave it on other participants' threads.

5. Select OK to confirm.

6. The item you unsent has "You unsent a message" in its place. Everyone in the conversation can see this.

The unsend feature might not be available if you use a messaging app that integrates with Facebook other than Facebook Messenger.

Why Would You Want to Unsend Facebook Messages?

Let's say you just sent a message you instantly regretted, or you accidentally sent a personal message to the wrong person. Until 2018, Facebook messages could not be unsent or removed from the recipient's inbox. Now, you can take back your words, GIFs, emojis, or anything else you sent to an individual or group of people.

Can People Still See Unsent Facebook Messages?

Unsending a message deletes it from the conversation, so it might disappear before the recipient actually sees it. However, it's very possible they've already viewed the message, especially if it was sent some time previously. The recipient will see that you've unsent a message.

As part of its mission to prevent cyberbullying, Facebook administrators can see unsent messages for a short time in case a message is reported for policy violations. When someone unsends a message, the message is replaced by text indicating the message was removed. That way, you can report users for harassment by tapping the sender's name, then selecting Something's Wrong in the Facebook Messenger app.

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Facebook has finally promised the feature that internet users have been pining for — the ability to delete a regretful message from their chat history.

The functionality was originally introduced for Facebook executives in 2014, after Sony Pictures’ email accounts were hacked.

The technology news site TechCrunch reported last April that multiple people who’d received messages from CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that the messages had been deleted while their own remained.

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“After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014, we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications,” Facebook told TechCrunch in a statement at the time. “These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages,” Facebook told TechCrunch at the time.

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Following this report, Facebook announced last year that it would publicly launch the feature for its users, though did not specify a launch date.

As of Tuesday, the ability to delete messages from one’s chat history will be rolling out around the world on iOS and Android.

For up to 10 minutes after a message is sent, users will soon have the option to delete that message from the conversation. To do this, users need only to tap the message once and select “Remove for Everyone.”

For up to 10 minutes after a Facebook message is sent, users will have the option to delete that message from the conversation. To do this, users need only to tap the message once and select “Remove for Everyone.”. Facebook

Recipients will receive a text alert telling them that something was deleted from the chat, and recipients can still see and read the messages you’ve “unsent” via that notification.

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The other option that will appear is “Remove for You,” which only prevents you from seeing the message, but everyone else in the conversation can still view it.

Prior to this announcement, Facebook began 2019 with news of additional changes to its messaging services which would see the infrastructure of its subsidiary apps — Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram — linked to allow messages to be sent across the platforms. The New York Times broke the news two weeks ago.

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While the news received mixed responses, Facebook said in a statement to the media that the discussions were just the beginning of a “long process.”

“We’re working on making more of our messaging products end-to-end encrypted and considering ways to make it easier to reach friends and family across networks,” a spokesperson told media.

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Global News tested the “Remove for Everyone” feature on Messenger and was successfully able to delete a message from its chat history.