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How do I hide a "watched" notification when reading a message on Facebook Messenger?


The word "Read" or "Seen" , which appears to the sender of the message after the recipient receives and opens it is normal to be good news, but for some reason, you may want to hide their appearance even if you read the message and read it, Messenger?



Unlike iMessage and Whatsapp, there is no formal way to hide your visibility of messages on Messenger. But you can do some of the following to accomplish the task:

Method 1: Read messages from notifications
Each message received by Messenger appears in a notification, and as long as you do not click on the notification to move to reply via Messenger, the blue "blue" will remain and will not be replaced by "Read" or "Read".

However, this method is limited, as notification letters do not appear complete. On iOS, for example, you'll find notification letters that do not exceed 162 characters, so you will not be able to read messages that exceed the character limit in notifications by the device you're using.

Method 2: Move to flight mode
The first is to activate the Airplane Mode, which cuts off the Internet and Wi-Fi and cellular, and then open the Messenger application and read messages, and before you close the flight mode to reconnect the Internet should close the application Messenger, And make sure it does not work in the background.

This will keep your messages unreadable, but if you do not close the application, the next time you connect to the Internet and Facebook services all your offline activities will be synchronized, including reading messages.

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