Facebook Messenger is probably the most used chat app around the world. Meta, the company that also owns WhatsApp and Instagram, manages to make the 3 most used chat and social media apps in the world available to people. Currently, more than 2.5 billion people use Messenger. The versatility of the app makes people use it easily. How can you use Messenger without a Facebook account? If you didn’t know, this is possible. We explain more in the following material.
You don’t need Facebook to use Messenger
The Facebook Messenger app is completely unrelated to Facebook. Meta, the parent company, came up with an update a few years ago that lets you use only the chat app, without using Facebook, if you don’t want to. All you have to do is download the app to your phone, select “Not on Facebook”, then quickly create an account...
If you didn’t know, you can add or use multiple accounts in Facebook Messenger and you can switch between them at any time. When switching accounts, your conversations and contacts from your friends list will appear every time. For this, go to Settings, then click on Accounts and select the “+” option in the upper-right corner to add another Facebook Messenger account .
Turn off notifications
When you’re at work or in an important meeting, or you don’t want to be disturbed by third parties, there’s no need to turn off your internet. Messenger also offers the ability to mute conversations with your friends.
How can you do this? You have to tap on the Notifications option at the bottom of the screen and choose the time period for which you don’t want to receive notifications when someone sends you a message (15 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours, 24 hours or permanently). After the interval expires, notifications will be automatically received from the muted people.
How to see who is messaging you
It may have happened to you that a person wants to contact you, but is not in your contact list. This will work in another way. You won’t see messages the way they do from your friends until you add the new people to your contact list. In the Message Request section you can see who sent you a message and who is not in your contact list.
You can disable “Chat Heads”
Every time you start a conversation on the phone screen a small round “pop” window appears with the photo of the contact. If you don’t want them to appear anymore, you can disable them. To do this, go to Messenger and, from the dialog window, click on your avatar photo to get to the configuration page, and in the same window, below, you can uncheck “Chat Heads”.
Including from the phone menu, you can disable the notifications received from Facebook or Messenger.
Create shortcuts
If there are contacts you interact with a lot, you can create shortcuts for them on your phone’s home screen. To use this option, tap and hold the conversation with the person and then select the Create Shortcut option.
Also from the phone menu you can use the Widget section, which will give you the opportunity to make a shortcut directly to certain friends in Messenger.
Submit your location
The principle of operation of the WhatsApp application is similar to Messnger. If you didn’t know, including on this chat application you can send your location in real time, just like on WhatsApp . For this, select the conversation with that person, click on the More option, then on Location. Select the desired location and press send.
Download photos and videos over Wi-Fi
In addition to text messages and documents, Facebook Messenger allows you to send and receive photos and videos. Incoming files are downloaded automatically, but you can set the app to download them only over Wi-Fi.
For this, go to the Messenger settings, then go to the Photos&Media section and choose the Use less data option. You can block the internet access of applications, also from the phone menu. Thus, only certain applications in the phone will have access to the Internet.
Change the color of the chat window
The default color scheme of the chat window is white and blue . If, however, you want to change it to differentiate the contacts, you must click on the Details icon in the upper-right corner. Next, tap Color and check any of the options from the available palette. Even in conversations you can change the emojis or the writing style.
How to search for information in a conversation
If you want to look for an older piece of information in a previous conversation with one of your friends, you don’t need to scroll until you reach that point. Messnger comes with a useful option.
Therefore, you must use the “search” box and enter certain keywords relevant to that information. You will immediately find all the conversations in which those keywords appear.
