Facebook Messenger app allows you to quickly receive, read, and reply messages from your Android device without launching the Facebook app. On the other hand, it could be embarrassing to persist showing your private messages over the screen. Hence, most of the people found it disturbing and wanting to turn off Facebook Messenger chat heads notification on their Android.
Honestly speaking, this feature works great when you are not using the app and still getting essential messages over the screen. And the good thing is you can directly answer them from your notification bar if you want. But, what if your phone is in your friend’s hand and you get a message from your girlfriend? For sure, you won’t wish your friend to read the message. Luckily, there is a way to turn off/disable chat heads messenger notifications on Android. Here’s how!
How to Disable Facebook Messenger Chat Heads on Android
Once you install Facebook Messenger app on your Android, the chat heads notification will turn on automatically. If you want to turn off chat heads, then you will need to manually go to the Facebook Messenger setting to deactivate messenger chat heads. Here are three steps you can follow:
Step #1. First of all, launch Messenger app on your Android phone.
Step #2. Next, tap on your profile at the top right corner of the app.
Step #3. Once you are on your profile, scroll down to the “Chat Heads” option and switch the toggle to next to Chat Heads to turn it off.
You’re done!
Once you turn off chat heads option in Facebook Messenger app, you won’t get any annoying message on your screen without your consent. Thus, now you need to open the app to check your all messages and reply from the app. Also, you won’t get the option to reply from the navigation bar. For that, you need to enable the chat heads option. You can go through similar steps to turn on Messenger chat heads. The app also allows making secret conversation in Facebook Messenger app on Android and iPhone to chat privately.
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Wrapping up
Hope this article helped you to get rid of annoying popping up notifications on Android. Found it useful? Do share with other users who are going through the same. Have anything else you want to ask? Tell us in the comments or on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus.
