If you receive a message from someone you are not friends with on Facebook, the message will appear under ‘ Message Requests’. Sent messages (blue circle outline with check mark icon) indicate that your message has been sent but the recipient is not connected to the internet to receive the message.ĭelivered messages (filled blue circle with check mark) indicate that your message has been received but not read or opened by the recipient. What Is the Difference between Sent and Delivered in Messenger? You can also delete (irreversible action) or archive (reversible action) your entire chat with someone in the Facebook Messenger app.ĭid you know there is a sneaky trick people use to send anonymous Facebook messages? Check that article out for the details. If you unsend the message, it will be replaced by the text ‘ you unsent a message’ that the recipient will also be able to see in the chat thread icons.

To do this, long tap on the message, click on ‘ Remove’ and select either ‘ Unsend’ or ‘ Remove for You’. Once you have sent a message, you can either delete it just for yourself or unsend it completely. You might also be interested to learn how to see someones Facebook messages without them knowing! Go on you know you are curious. However, if they read the message from their notifications without opening the app, you will not be able to definitely know if they read your message.Ĭheck out how to tell when someone was last on Facebook Messenger in this easy to follow guide. Usually, the profile photo of the recipient will appear next to your message to indicate that they have read your message.

So I got the icon from Font Awesome, however it has only one color and the “flash” is transparent, which is trouble if the background is not white.How to Know If Your Message Was Read on the Facebook Messenger App

This reply was modified 2 years ago by yellofish. Under “Icon” simply paste it into the “Icon SVG HTML” field. I found this link to a SVG file that I liked: ĭownloaded the SVG, opened it in Notebook++ – it looks like this: Well, I was probably the only one that didn’t know that….

Messenger icon on facebook