How to deactivate your Facebook and Messenger accounts
How to deactivate your Facebook account
Open the Facebook app
Tap the Hamburger menu
Open Settings
Tap Account ownership and control
Tap Deactivation and deletion
Tap Deactivate account
Re-enter your password
Let them know what is your reason
Select Don't reactivate automatically
Check Opt-out of receiving future notifications from Facebook
Tap Deactivate My Account
How to deactivate your Messenger account
Open Messenger app
Tap continue
Tap your profile photo
Tap Legal and policies
Tab Deactivate messenger
Tap Deactivate
if you wanna take a break from Facebook so you can activate your account
Then your profile will be disabled temporarily, and also you can reactivate
it at any time by looking back into Facebook
first, keep in mind even if you deactivated your Facebook account, your messenger account is still will remain active and also, you can’t deactivate only your messenger account, so first, you have to deactivate your Facebook account then you can deactivate your messenger account
To start, open Facebook app
then tap the hamburger menu
now scroll down and tap Settings and
privacy to open the drop-down menu
tap Settings
now scroll down to tap Account ownership and control
then tap deactivation and deletion
now you can see deactivate account is selected by default
then tap continue to account deactivation
here you have to re-enter your password
then tap continue
here let them know what’s the reason to deactivate your Facebook account
You can select any of these
tap continue
then I don’t want to log out of Facebook
here keep in mind Facebook will automatically reactivate your account
after seven days, if you don’t select that, don’t reactivate automatically in the pop-up window
then tap continue
here I don’t want to keep using messenger, so I will leave it along
then check Opt-out of receiving future notifications from Facebook
then just tap deactivate my account, then you will be logged out of Facebook
let’s jump into messenger to start open messenger app
tap continue
now tap your profile photo in the top left corner
Then scroll all the way to the bottom
then tap legal and policies at the bottom of your screen
Usually, on android, you can find this option here on IOS; if you can’t find it here, just uninstall the app and reinstall the Messenger app again
Definitely, this option is here
tap deactivate messenger
Here you have to enter your password again
then just tap deactivate
you will be logged out of messenger
Let’s check how it works
You can see both before and after videos
Let’s log into Facebook using another account
Now I am going to search my other account
After deactivating Facebook, hides your account from search results
Lest check how it shows on the friend lists
It says this account has been deactivated
Remember, if you log back into your account, it reactivates automatically
That’s it thanks for watching see you soon
