How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

Whether you like it or not, your smartphone often ends up in the hands of your nosy friends who, as soon as they have the chance, open Messenger to spy on the conversations you have with your contacts. To the thing you’re used to, so much so that you often delete the messages that you do not want to show others, but there are some things that you have not yet erased and that you would hide so much from the look of your nosy friends, for example searches carried out in the app.

By tapping on the search bar in Messenger, anyone can view the list of names you’ve searched for (and selected) recently, and this is quite annoying. Well, luckily you’ve come to the right place at the right time! With today’s guide, in fact, I’ll tell you how to cancel searches on Messenger explaining how to proceed from both smartphones and tablets that PC. The operation is not one of the easiest to do (because there is no command that allows you to run it directly), but you will not have to do anything complicated, promised.

To find out all the details of the case and, above all, prevent your friends from hanging out to view the latest searches you’ve made on Messenger, continue reading and put into practice the instructions that are shown below: regardless of the device and the operating system that use, I assure you that you will succeed quickly in your intent. Good reading and good luck for everything!

Index – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

Cancel searches on Messenger from Android – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger
Delete searches on Messenger from iOS – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger
Delete searches on Messenger from PC – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

 

Cancel searches on Messenger from Android – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

Want to know how to delete searches on Messenger and use an Android terminal? No problem, there are even two ways you can follow: the first is to delete the app data via the settings of the operating system; the second in terminating the Messenger session from the Facebook settings. Here is how to act in both cases.

If you want to delete searches on Messenger by deleting the app data, go to the Settings menu of Android (the gear icon placed in the home screen or in the screen with the list of all the apps installed on the device) and select the item App from the screen that opens.

At this point, select Messenger from the list of applications installed on the device, tap on the item Memory, presses the button Delete data and confirm, responding Delete the warning that appears on the screen.

If you prefer to do the other way, then closing the active Messenger sessions on your smartphone (or your tablet), start the official Facebook app for Android (Facebook, not Messenger, be careful!), Presses the icon to hamburger placed at the top right and select the item Settings and privacy from the end of the screen that appears.

At this point, tap on the item Settings go to Protection and access and press the button More … located at the bottom of the Devices pane from which you are logged in. Now you just have to find the sessions related to Messenger and your device, press the button with the three dots placed at the latter and select the item Exit from the menu that opens. Once all Messenger sessions linked to your Android device are closed, you should see (above) a notification that you have disconnected from the service.

Now, regardless of the procedure you followed, start Messenger and if everything went right, the app will tell you that your session has expired. Press, then, on the OK button, re-enter the service (typing the credentials of your Facebook account or pressing the Continue button as [your name]) and choose whether to send messages to your phone contacts by synchronizing the address book with Messenger and if send and receive SMS messages on Messenger using the latter as the default app for managing SMS messages.

After these steps, you should see the main Messenger screen and, pressing the search bar at the top, you should notice that the search history has disappeared (it will repopulate when you will search new users within the app). Chat, contacts and other settings, however, will all be there where you left them.

Delete searches on Messenger from iOS – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

If you use an iOS terminal, then an iPhone or an iPad, you can cancel searches on Messenger by going to the Facebook access management panel and ending the current sessions of Messenger on iPhone: in doing so, you will be forcibly disconnected from your account and all temporary application data, including searches made inside it, will be deleted.

To proceed, start the official Facebook app (not Messenger, Facebook), press the hamburger icon located at the bottom right and scroll up and down the page that opens. At this point, presses on Settings and privacy, go to Settings, then Security and access and, in the screen that opens, select the item Other located at the bottom of the Where you have logged in.

You will find yourself in front of the list of all the accesses to Facebook and Messenger that you have opened on your devices. Locate, then, all the entries related to iPhone and Messenger and proceed to their removal: if you do not know how to do, just press the button with the three dots placed in front of the session to close and select the item Exit from the menu that appears on screen.

Now, start the Messenger app and if everything is spun in the right direction, a message will appear on the screen that the session has expired and you need to log in again your account: if not, back in the Facebook app and better control the access list, because most likely you have left active access to Messenger from iPhone.

When the message regarding the expired session appears, tap OK, log in to Messenger again by entering your Facebook account credentials (or simply by pressing the Continue button as [your name] and choose whether or not to invite your friends to Messenger sending them a message (personally I suggest you decline the invitation).

At this point, presses the search bar located at the top and you should note that, in the next screen, there is no search suggestion: a sign that the procedure was successful.

Delete searches on Messenger from PC – How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger

As you probably know, Messenger is accessible from a PC via the Facebook Chat panel (the one located on the right in the main page of the social network) and through the dedicated Messenger.com site. In neither case, however, there is a search history like the one in the Messenger app for Android and iOS.

The only chronology available on Facebook for computers is that relating to the searches carried out within the social network, then to the searches of people, pages, events, etc. which were made through the appropriate bar located at the top left.

If you want to delete one of the names that appear automatically on Facebook when you click on the search bar located at the top left, proceed as follows: click on the bar in question and select the item placed at the top of the menu with the search history (which appears automatically at the bottom).

In the page that opens, find the name you want to delete from the search history (eg You have searched for How To Do For), click on the prohibition sign that is in front of it, select the Delete item from the menu that opens and confirm, by pressing the Remove search button that appears in the center of the screen. Now repeat the operation for all the names (or even pages, events, etc.) that you want to delete from the Facebook search history and the game will be done.

If you want to act as a smartphone and tablet, in order to delete the search history in the application of Facebook (so not in Messenger, but in the social network app), proceed like this: start the Facebook app on your device, presses the search bar located at the top and tap the Edit item at the top right of the screen that is displayed on the screen.

On the page that opens, find the name you want to delete from the history of Facebook, presses on the x that is in its correspondence and confirm, pressing the button Remove that appears on the screen. Delete Facebook history.

Repeat the operation for all the names, or even the pages, events etc. that you want to delete from the history of the Facebook app and the game will be done. It was not difficult, was it?

If you do not know a few steps, take a look at my tutorial on how to delete Facebook history, in which I explained in detail how to erase the history of Facebook searches both from the computer and from smartphones and tablets.

 

How To Clear Recent Search History on Fb Messenger