How to turn off your active status on Facebook

Do you spend a lot of time on Facebook MessengerWhile your friends may find it endearing, you'd rather choose people who don't know when you're active. Fortunately, it's possible to turn off your active status. Facebook Messenger Other people won't see the green dot that indicates your active status. This tutorial teaches you how to turn off your active status on Facebook Messenger And continue chatting peacefully without feeling like you're being watched.

How to Hide Your Active Status on Facebook on Desktop

Turning off your active status on Facebook will prevent your friends from seeing when you're online and when you were last active. If you tend to use Facebook Messenger on your desktop, here are the steps you need to take to disable your active status. In our testing, we found that you'll need to disable your active status on all devices you're logged in to if you want to go completely offline on Facebook Messenger.

Step 1: On PC, open Facebook site in the browser of your choice.

Step 2: Click Messenger icon In the upper right corner of the page. Select three-dot icon Top Search bar.

Step 3: From the options that appear, select Turn off active status feature.

Step 4: Facebook offers fine-grained control over who can see you when you're online, so you have 3 options to choose from:

• Turn off active status for all contacts: If you don't want anyone to know when you're online, select this feature.
• Turn off active status for all contacts except: This option hides you from most of your contacts with a few exceptions.
• Turn off active status for some contacts only: The option allows you to show online only to manually select the contacts you need to organize.

Select the option that suits you and click on Okay button.

How to Turn Off Your Active Status on Facebook and Messenger Mobile Apps

If you want to ensure you're invisible on Facebook, you should disable your active status on the Facebook and Messenger mobile apps. Let's start with the Facebook app.

Step 1: Open Facebook app on your phone.

Step 2: Click on hamburger menu in the upper right corner.

Step 3: Locate “Settings and Privacy” at the bottom.

Step 4: Click on Settings.

Step 5: Scroll down until you reach Audience and Vision section.

Step 6: Tap on the active status and switch to the same. Show when active option.

Alternatively, you can do the same thing from within the Messenger app. Here are the steps to take.

Step 1: Open Messenger app on your phone.

Step 2: Click on profile picture Yours is at the top of the screen on the left.

Step 3: Click on Active status.

Step 4: turn off The “Show when active” option.

How to log out of Facebook on desktop

Facebook can be a bit of a nuisance, sometimes showing you online even when you're not. Even with your active status turned off, this can still happen. If you want to make sure you don't appear online when you're not, we recommend logging out of your account. Here's how to do it on a computer.

Step 1: On PC, open Facebook site in the browser of your choice.

Step 2: Click down symbol in the upper right corner of the screen.

Step 3: Click on Logout button To log out of your Facebook account.

Step 4: Instead, select “Settings and Privacy” from the dropdown menu.

Step 5: Now select Settings.

Step 6: Click Security and Login From the left side of the screen.

Step 7: in “Log in” section Find your device (except the one you're currently active on), click the three vertical dots on the right, and select Sign Out. You can also sign out of your mobile device from the dashboard.

How to log out of Facebook on mobile

You can do the same thing from your mobile device. Just note one thing: you can't log out of the Messenger app; you'll need to log in through Facebook.

Step 1: Open Facebook app on your phone.

Step 2: Click on hamburger menu in the upper right corner of the screen.

Step 3: Scroll down and tap Logout button To log out.

Step 4: Alternatively, click “Settings and Privacy” After displaying the list.

Step 5: Click on Settings.

Step 6: Go to “Password and security”.

Step 7: Look for “Log in place” Select the devices you want to sign out of (other than your current device). The app will show you whether you're signing in with Facebook or Messenger on a particular device.

Step 8: Find the device you want, and click on three vertical dots On the right and select sign out.

Keep peace of mind while using Facebook

Prevent others from constantly knowing what you're up to by turning off your Facebook activity status and reclaiming your privacy. If you think you're ready, you can even take it a step further andRemove Facebook and Messenger.