To do this on an iPhone, slowly swipe left on the chat thread, then tap 'More' (three-dot icon). Ignoring a chat will mute message notifications from the contact, and the person will remain uninformed that the conversation has been ignored and sent to Spam. This option is a step above muting and archiving-it places a chat with a person or group in the Spam folder called 'Message Requests.' This is where messages from people outside a user's immediate network go-and is an excellent go-to when the occasional Facebook Messenger outage is not an available excuse for not replying to annoying contacts. The 'Ignore' feature is a reliable method for taking a visual break from someone on the app. A time limit for the muting can also be set. To mute a Messenger conversation, long-press on a thread, then tap 'Mute.' Choose to mute message notifications, call notifications or both. Muting a chat thread lets a person hit pause on conversations in the app without removing a conversation from the inbox or marking it as read. If a user has various active group chat threads on Messenger, the notifications can go haywire. To do this, long-press on a person's chat thread in the Messenger inbox, then tap 'Archive.' To retrieve archived messages, tap on the Profile icon on the upper-left corner of the page, then tap 'Archived chats.' Tapping on a contact's thread and sending them a message will push the thread back into the main inbox, where they will again be able to message and video chat through Messenger. This option doesn't remove a person as a contact, but it does move an ongoing message thread with them out of the inbox and into an 'Archived chats' folder that can be accessed later on. The first level of defense against Facebook Messenger clutter is the 'Archive' function. Related: How Safe Is Facebook Messenger And How To Make It Even More Secure However, some options are available that will lessen the visibility of unwanted messages in the Messenger inbox. Once a person is added, they can see when a contact is online. Unlike Facebook's main platform, there is no 'unfriend' button available on Messenger once a user is permitted to communicate. Currently, there is no straightforward way to take someone off a user's Messenger contacts list outright.

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