How to Appear Invisible on Facebook – What if I told you that you can be invisible on Facebook? Seems surreal right but yet true, just like the feature you find on WhatsApp when it seems you are offline but you are online.
You can replicate that with your Facebook Application. However not just your Facebook but also your Facebook Messenger.
How to be Invisible on Facebook
These days some of us love the company of privacy. And one of the privacy is privacy on Facebook. Many people want privacy due to the scandals and unnecessary topics other people bring to their dm. But we have found the solution to this problem all you have to do is follow every step in the article depending on the device you choose.
Privacy Settings and Tools
There are some options or Questions you would want to find out that fall under the privacy settings and probably they might be questions you have been asking yourself.
- Who can see your future posts?
- Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline.
- Limit the audience for old posts on your timeline.
- Who can send you friend requests?
- Whose messages do I want to be filtered into my inbox?
- Who can look you up using the email address you provided?
- Who can look you up using the phone number you provided?
- Do you want other search engines to link to your timeline?
- Who can post on your timeline?
- Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline.
- Who can see the posts you have tagged on your timeline?
- Who can see what others post on your timeline?
- Review tags people add to your posts before the tags appear on Facebook.
- When you are tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience if they aren’t already in it?
- Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?
- Who can follow me?
All these questions are those questions related to the privacy questions of being invisible on Facebook and no one having access to the time you would be available on Facebook due to reasons personal to you.
How To Appear Invisible on Facebook
These steps are applicable when you are using the desktop for Facebook. First, navigate to your browser and type in Facebook.com.
- After doing the above instruction you select the Messenger icon.
- Next, you have to select options with the aid of the three dots icon.
- Then you click on the turn off active status.
If you don’t want to disturb anyone and want nobody to access you then you can click on the turn off for all contacts option. But if you choose to be available to some then you choose the turn off active status for all contacts except those you want to be available to.
On Android Devices or IOS
The steps below are for the situation of being invisible using your Facebook application on your IOS or Android device.
- The First step is to tap on the three dots icon that leads you to the menu. The icon varies in position with the two different devices. On the IOS device, the three dots icon is found at the lower right corner while on the android device, it is located at the upper right corner of the phone.
- Then navigate to the settings and privacy options among the other options.
- Next, you have to click on the Privacy section and tap on active status under the privacy settings.
- Close to the Active status, you would find a toggle click on it to turn it off.
Facebook Messenger App
- On your Facebook messenger, navigate to your profile picture. Your profile circle is like an icon that shows your picture.
- After clicking on the profile picture, you will see the active status option. Click on the option.
- If you doubt if it worked you can tap on the toggle close to the active status.
Can I Be On Facebook Without Anyone Knowing?
You want to come online without anyone knowing that is only available if you have successfully turned off your active status. That is the only way to appear offline even when online.