Facebook Messenger is a very popular IM app for Android and iPhone users. In another guide, we showed how Facebook users can block someone in FB Messenger app on iPhone. There is a same feature to block people in Messenger on Android mobile phones as well. Today, we will share with FB Messenger users another way to block and unblock people in your Facebook account from the web on computer. When you block someone in Messenger, it doesn’t automatically block them on Facebook. However when you block someone in Facebook, it will automatically block them on Messenger. You can follow below instructions to block people or unblock people for the Messenger app on both Android and iPhone. That means you can block someone in your Facebook account using the web browser on computer, so this person will be blocked on Facebook Messenger app on iPhone, Android and more mobile phone. If like you can also unblock them using the Messenger app on Android or iPhone. This is the alternative solution to block and unblock people in FB Messenger on smartphones.
How to Block Someone in Facebook Messenger from the Web?
Visit https://www.facebook.com/ using a web browser on your PC or Mac, such as IE, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. Log in your Facebook account with your username and password. Click on the lock icon from the top right corner to expand a drop-down menu like below.
From above Facebook Privacy Shortcuts menu, you can find a section “How do I stop someone from bothering me?” Input a name or email, then search and block people from there. Once you block people from Facebook website, when you run Messenger app on iPhone or Android, they will also be blocked in your Messenger app on the phone. iPhone users can also refer to this guide to block and unblock people in Facebook app on iPhone.
How to Unblock People in Facebook Messenger from the Web?
Once you block someone in FB Messenger app on iPhone or Android by mistake, you can also go to unblock them from Facebook website. It is the same as you unblock people in Messenger on Android phone or unblock people in Messenger app on iPhone.
Log on your Facebook account from a web browser on a PC or Mac, go to the Privacy Shortcuts menu, click View All Blocked Users, you can then find all people in your block list or blacklist.
To remove someone from your blacklist or this Blocked People list is easy, simply browse through the name list and click the Unblock button besides the Facebook user, you will then get a warning message about the consequences.
Read the unblock people notifications carefully, if you like to proceed, click the Confirm button to unblock the Facebook user.
it doesnt make any sense
Hi thx for the tip 🙂
Are we sure blocking a user on facebook also blocks people to contact you on messengers app ?
Thx again !
Nope…facebook and messenger are separate….thr person is NOT ON fb blocked list….and I CANNOT search them on messenger..even though they r my fb. friend .m
Since they r blocked..they do not even come up in a search on messenger. And the message icon is greyed out on Facebook meaning it CANNOT be clicked on
How can i unblock someone on messenger so that i can message them again
if you follow above tips to unblock someone from facebook website, you should unblock him or her on Messenger as well.
if you like to do it from the mobile phone other than on a computer, you can refer to this guide to block and unblock someone on Messenger for iPhone.
Still having trouble unblocking someone from messenger
are you using Messenger on Android, iPhone or else?
Yes I can’t sent him message on Facebook messenger..but I can on his timeline!!!please help me unblock him …