Can you remove the "Active" status on Facebook Messenger?

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Lola -
Grazzzz Posted messages 3 Status Member - 24 Dec 2018 at 20:17

Hello,
I have a Messenger contact who I'm not friends with on Facebook, and I can no longer see them marked as active or active x minutes ago.
It started yesterday evening. It came back once, but since then nothing.
My other contacts who are friends or just connected on Messenger are working normally...

Could they have paid for an app that allows them to remove that? Or could an update allow it?
Still, they read my last message. But nothing... no active or online status...

Thanks to those who will respond

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Cupidon14 Posted messages 3 Status Member 144

Hello Lola

I've had the same problem as you for a few days now.

So far on the Facebook app for computer and also on the Messenger mobile app, I could see my contact's status, meaning either "active" when they were online or "active x time ago" when they were disconnected.

But now, while I can still see if they are online, the mention "active x time ago" no longer appears after they disconnect (or only for a very short time, just a few minutes).

I want to clarify that my contact uses their Facebook/Messenger computer app to communicate, so I wonder if they don't activate the "offline" feature on the Messenger computer app after each conversation to remove the mention "active ... ago".

Can someone confirm this or help us?
Thank you for your tips.
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Billette

See https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-35333351-pourquoi-l-info-actif-depuis-x-minutes-n-apparait-plus#62
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1. Double2011 Posted messages 8 Status Member
  
  The problem has been solved since this evening in my case... Let's hope it lasts.
  
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ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792

Patience Lola, I know it's frustrating, I understand very well.
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1. Lola
  
  Thank you very much. !!
  Yes, it's frustrating. Especially the fear because it only happens with him. But if it’s really impossible to remove it from the start. It will probably come back
  
  Yes, I also have another issue. I no longer have my profile picture displayed on the messenger code thing. And I’ve seen a few other bugs.
  But now that it affects the most important person to me, it’s scary. And it would be stupid to hold a grudge against him for something he didn't do. Because it really hurts me not to see his activities on fb. I would have taken it badly if it had come from him.
  
  But you reassured me. Hoping to come back as soon as possible to say that everything is fine.
  
  Good night. And enjoy your vacation :)
  
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mpuissance4 Posted messages 14750 Registration date Status Contributor Last intervention 2 171

Here you go, you go on Messenger, open the person, then you can do this by clicking on the wheel
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1. Lola
  
  Yes, I know but:
  Reporting as spam doesn't remove the active! And at worst, he never reads the conversation, he hasn't done it, I know him
  Ignoring: Doesn't remove the active, and besides, when we send it the person isn't notified, so no blue bubble and doesn't read
  He reads! So not that ^^
  
  Mute: Removes the notifications so the sound, but not the active!
  Deleting doesn't remove the active either!
  
  I've tried everything with a friend!
  
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2. Lola
  
  So I don't understand, plus in a post from yesterday a guy says that we can remove the green dot, but not the active and inactive status that appears in the conversation!
  We haven't been able to for years!
  So either it's new, but I don't know about it, and I can't find it anywhere! Yet I have all the latest updates!
  Or it's a bug
  I had the same case once, with the same person, but when he had read my message, it had come back within 2 hours, not this time!
  
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3. Lola
  
  My problem is really this one:
  
  I know that you can remove the green dot, I know how to do it!
  But normally you can't remove 'active' or 'active x minutes ago' when the other person goes to the conversation!
  
  It's been 3 months since he last had a green dot! So I knew that, no problem!
  
  But now I see nothing, even when he reads, or whatever! No more active
  
  And I repeat, but last night it started, it came back after 20/30 minutes, and by the time I made dinner, nothing!
  
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4. mpuissance4 Posted messages 14750 Registration date Status Contributor Last intervention 2 171
  
  So you need to block the person on Facebook, go to their profile, click on the three little dots under "Friends," and then block them. That's the only solution.
  
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5. ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792
  
  Good evening,
  that's also my opinion as I don't see any other solution.
  Have a good evening
  Eric
  
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ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792

I just watched "active or inactive" and for me it's a bug, there are no options to set it to active or inactive. It's definitely an additional problem with Facebook, and I spent time going through everything from A to Z. So here is my conclusion: it's Facebook that's at fault, I'm certain of it.
Hugs and keep me posted in a few days; contact me if the problem persists.
Eric
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1. ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792
  
  It is not necessary to look at "active" 7:00 hours before, but at the moment "T", meaning at the time of connection and discussion.
  
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  1. Lola > ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member
    
    Well my friend, nothing appears here, neither active nor active from x time ago.
    
    But the other friends do. Either active or active from x time ago.
    
    I said this because it doesn't show inactive. But rather active from x time ago on my Android phone and my PC.
    
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2. Lola
  
  So it's impossible to put anything. At most we remove the green dot. But normally the active inactive for x time stays.
  
  Because right now I see his name and nothing below. For the others, I see active or how long it's been since their last connection.
  
  Your sentence 'no possibility to put active or inactive' did you mean 'not possible to NOT put active or inactive'?
  I'm asking because otherwise I understand that it comes from him. But you conclude it's a bug.
  
  Thanks a thousand times for your time anyway. I'll keep you updated. Hoping that it'll be good tomorrow.
  
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3. Lola
  
  I have some photos but I can't post them here ^^
  To show what I mean ^^
  
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Babi

If we can, we go on mobile messenger and click on our photo in the top left and manage our online status.
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1. Cupidon14
  
  Hello, Babi
  thank you for this information. But disabling your online status also means no longer being able to see the contacts who are online or have been recently...
  
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2. Loli
  
  Hello, same problem as Lola and Cupid since yesterday..
  
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3. Grazzzz Posted messages 3 Status Member
  
  So the answer pleazzeee??
  A Messenger contact (without being Facebook friends) that he hasn't seen active at all or even the green dot for 3 days, is it a bug or could he have just blocked that for me?
  
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ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792

Good evening,
he simply concealed his presence because it is possible on sites like Facebook and Messenger.
Have a good evening already underway
Eric
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1. Lola
  
  Thank you for the response. But how do we do that?
  
  He had indeed removed the active status in green dot mode, but when I went to the conversation, I saw active without a green dot. Or active a few minutes ago.
  It has been 3 months since he did that, and now it started just last night when I no longer see anything.
  
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2. ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792
  
  You need to go to Facebook settings to do it. I would need to log into my Facebook account to explain how to do it because there are quite a few settings, and from what I remember, you need to go to "Privacy Settings." Also, since Facebook works with Messenger, there is either a green dot to indicate our presence or nothing at all, but no software to download.
  Hoping to answer the question nonetheless.
  Best wishes
  Eric
  
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3. Lola
  
  I searched but couldn't find it...
  It's a shame that he did it anyway. Thank you
  Have a good evening.
  
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4. ricco114 Posted messages 5941 Status Member 792
  
  I will log into my Facebook account tomorrow and I'll keep you informed for sure to explain how to do it because I am not working right now, I am on vacation.
  Eric
  
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5. Lola
  
  Okay, thank you.
  
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Can you remove the "Active" status on Facebook Messenger?

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