Turn Off Facebook Chat on iPhone 6

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Hello, and welcome to VisiHow. In this video, I'm going to show you how to turn off your chat on Facebook using an iPhone 6.

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   To start with, unlock the phone using the fingerprint lock

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   As soon as we have access to the home screen, we need to open the Facebook app

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   The icon for it looks like a blue square with a white letter "F" on it. Give it a tap, and we are on the News Feed.

   

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   To reach the chat, all we need to do is place a finger on the screen and swipe it to the left

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   Here is the chat. When we are logged in, we can see other people who are logged in and who are online now. In which case, we will see a green circle next to their names.

   

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   Also, we can see when they have been logged in last time

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   For example, this person. On the right-hand side of her name, we can see that she's using the Facebook Messenger application and that she was online two hours ago.

   

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   This person was online 14 minutes ago

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   If we are logged into Facebook chat, it allows other people to see our online status or last login.

   

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   If we want to turn off the chat, tap the gear icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen when the chat is open

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   A pop-up menu will appear that allows us to turn it off or cancel if we have changed our minds

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   Tap "Turn Off Chat".

   

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   It's completely off, and the screen went completely gray

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   That also means that currently, our friends are not able to see our online status or last login.

   

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   To close the chat, swipe the screen

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    You just watched me turn chat off on Facebook using the iPhone 6

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    To turn it back on, access the chat and tap on the gear icon located in the top-right corner of the phone.

    

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    The pop-up menu will appear, and we can tap "Turn On Chat" to turn it back on

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    Thank you for watching VisiHow

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    If you have any additional questions on Facebook or related applications, please leave your questions in the comment section below.

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Can't swipe on Facebook to get to chat gear on messenger. It was just working the other day?

I use to be able to see the messenger when I would swipe to the left .. see who was on and how long ago there were on.. now I can't swipe for some reason I have an iPhone 6. I can't swipe at all to go from Facebook to Messenger, not sure what I have done to stop this

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Chat on mobile Facebook is no longer showing on iPhone 6. Can you help?

Hi, I cannot see any of the friends on Facebook through my mobile phone? They were all on right side and would show when they were last on and who is on. Can you help? I need to know how to turn on chat on mobile Facebook

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I can no longer swipe left on my iPhone in Facebook to see who's online?

The swiping left feature completely doesn't work. How do I restore it? Thanks. In the article the user can swipe left to see the chat to turn it on and off. On my iPhone I cannot even swipe left. I tried to swipe and nothing happens. Help!!

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