How to remove suggested on messenger iphone

Facebook is the world’s biggest social media platform. According to Statista, it has over 2.8 billion monthly active users.

It is also one of the most popular ways to connect with friends, family, and customers. There are two things that make Facebook so popular. First, it is free to use. And second, it offers a great platform to interact with friends and family.

But sometimes, Facebook can be a little annoying. For example, when you are trying to add someone as a friend, Facebook will sometimes suggest that person as a friend before you finish adding them.

This can be a bit intrusive and if you’re not careful, you could accidentally add someone as a friend.

If you use Facebook Messenger for business, you probably want to remove suggested people from appearing in your Messenger.

You may be thinking that the person is a potential customer or a lead, but they are not. That’s why we’ve put together a guide on how to remove suggested people from appearing in your Facebook Messenger.

So how do you remove suggested people from appearing in your Messenger? First, we need to make sure that you have the right to remove the suggested people.

After that, we need to find out how they got there. Finally, we need to remove them from the Messenger sidebar.

Here’s a quick guide on how to remove suggested people on the Messenger sidebar.

Without any further ado, let’s get started!

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Why Remove Suggested People on Messenger

There are many reasons why you may want to remove suggested people on your messaging app. One reason is to prevent spam.

It can be a bit annoying when someone sends you a message and then suggests people to add to your list of contacts.

You don’t have to add these people to your contact list, but you do have to acknowledge the message and add the person’s name to the message.

In the past, you would have had to delete the suggested person from your contact list. This is no longer the case, so you can remove the suggested people from your contact list directly from the message window.

To remove suggested friend on Facebook, kindly follow the steps below:

• Launch your Messenger app.
• Click on your profile icon at the top of your screen.
• Proceed to choose phone contacts, then Manage Contacts.
• Click on ”Delete All Contacts”

This will remove the all suggested people on Messenger. Make sure to log out and log in the Messenger.

Note: 

If you still see the suggested people, make sure you sign out of Facebook and Messenger on all of your devices and sign back in.

This will clear the caches associated with Facebook and Messenger and the people should stay out of your suggested people for the duration.

People often rely on their friends in Messenger, but sometimes they might not know all the friends who have access to their accounts.

If you want to share a new phone number or address that’s been added to your profile with your friends, you’ll be able to do so starting today.

See Also: How to Hide and Unhide Messages on Facebook Messenger

How to Prevent Messenger from Accessing Your Contact Book

If you don’t make sure that Facebook and Messenger don’t have access to your contacts book, it will start suggesting people again.

Below is how you can stop Messenger from having access to your contact book:

• Launch your Messenger app.
• Navigate to your profile.
• Choose Phone Contacts, then upload contacts.
• Proceed to click on ”Turn Off”.

These steps will prevent Facebook and Messenger from accessing your contact book.

Facebook Messenger has changed in a way that now stops it from accessing your contact list in any way.

This means that those contacts who appear in your Messenger sidebar on the desktop website or app will no longer appear.

It’s a small change but could save you from accidentally friending someone you actually wanted to keep at arm’s length.

Note: Ensure that you don’t click on the blue ”Update All Contacts” button.

This is because, when you click on it, it will automatically sync your contact list with Facebook. As you already know, you don’t want this to happen.

Other Ways to Remove Suggested People on Messenger

There are alternative ways to remove suggested people on Facebook Messenger. Below is how to do so:

• Launch the Facebook Messenger app.
• Click on your profile icon [at the upper left of the screen on iOS and upper right for Android] to disable friend suggestions.
• Navigate down to the ”Messenger Settings” page.
• Next, turn off the ”Suggestions” to disable Messenger Suggestions.

Conclusion

Messenger suggestion is a great feature. However, not everyone wants to have Messenger suggestions active.

Following this guide, you can easily remove suggested people on Facebook messenger.

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Facebook killed their M chat bot a few months back because it was more artificially stupid than artificially intelligent. Unfortunately, it lives on as the equally unintelligent M Suggestions in Facebook Messenger. Here’s how to turn those off.

What is Facebook M?

Facebook M was a virtual assistant chat bot that actually used humans to do most things. Facebook’s plan was to use the humans to train the chat bot, and then phase out how much the humans had to do. This didn’t work.

A lot of noise was made in the press about Facebook M, but it was only ever available to around 2,000 Californians. The human end of things could never really scale to more.

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At the start of this year, Facebook pulled the plug on M as an independent chat bot. Instead, it lives on in M Suggestions based off what they learned from working with the chat bot. It doesn’t, however, seem like they’ve learned that much.

M Suggestions pop up based on the context of your conversations. It can do things like:

• Suggest some appropriate stickers for a reply.
• Pay or request money.
• Share your location.
• Help you make plans.
• Start a poll so you can get a group of people to decide what to do.
• Hail an Uber or Lyft.

If these sound like kind of things you can quickly and easily do with, say, an app or by using your words, you’d be right. I’ve found that M Suggestions are at best, irrelevant. At worst, they’re actively in the way, and I often tap them by mistake.

How to Turn Off Facebook M Suggestions

To turn off Facebook M Suggestions, open Facebook Messenger, and then tap your profile icon. On iOS, it’s at the top left of the screen; on Android it’s at the top right.

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Scroll down and select the “M Settings” category.

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To get rid of M suggestions, just  turn the “Suggestions” toggle off.

And just like that, M will annoy you no more. If it ever does start being actually useful, you can always turn it back on.