Do you find it annoying or disturbing when message pop-ups keep showing up? In this case, you might want to log off of your iPhone or iPad’s Facebook Messenger app.
On the other hand, you can’t sign out of Messenger on an iPhone without the Facebook app. But there is a way around it! I will show you how to sign out of Facebook Messenger on your iPhone or iPad in this guide.
How to Sign Out of Facebook Messenger on Your iPhone
Sign out of the Facebook app before you log out of Messenger if you don’t want to delete it. You can learn how to do it by following these steps.
Method 1: Sign Out Using Facebook App
- Open the Facebook app on your iPhone and iPad.
- Click on your profile picture on the bottom right.
- Scroll down and tap Log out → Choose Log out in the confirmation prompt.
Messenger will also sign you out as soon as you log out of Facebook. You can sign back in again using the Facebook app to use Facebook Messenger.
Method 2: Sign Out Using Messenger app
If you only want to log out of Facebook Messenger on your iPhone and not the Facebook app, you’ll need to remove Facebook Messenger.
1. On your iPhone’s home screen or App Library, press and hold the Messenger app button.
- Tap Remove App if it’s on the home screen.
- There is an option to delete an app from the app library.
2. Tap Delete on the confirmation prompt.
If you ever want to use Facebook Messenger on your iPhone again, you can just get it from the App Store again.
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What happens when you sign out of Messenger?
Users will no longer be able to see your chats or see that you are “active” after you log out of Messenger. But you won’t be logged off of Facebook; it will still show that you’re logged in.
Your chats that you saved will still be on Messenger, and you can get to them from any platform or web browser.
It’s easy to sign out of Facebook…
The Facebook Messenger app doesn’t have a way to log out, but you can log out of Messenger from the Facebook app. You have to use the current ways to log out of the Facebook Messenger app, even though they are inconvenient.
