Hidden Features Of Facebook Messenger You Probably Don’t Know

This only makes it much better and more appealing. If you are thinking that’s the best can offer, then you better think twice. There are lots of cool tricks in the rabbit hat that you probably don’t know about. These are some of the coolest Facebook Messenger tips and tricks you ought to try out.

1. Mute chat notifications
A lot of us undoubtedly get irked and annoyed by the constant chat notifications at times, especially in moments when we do not need any interruption. Amazingly, you can be easily muted for a specific period of time or until you just unmute them manually. To do this, tap and hold on the conversation (alternatively for iOS, swipe left on the conversation) go to mute notifications and specify the period for which you want to mute the notifications. Check out the screenshot above.

2. Create shortcuts for quickly accessing chat with contacts (Android only)

In existence of certain contacts with whom you chat frequently, you can pin them to your android device’s home screen for faster access to them. Simply tap and hold on the conversations from the contact of whoever it is you want to pin, select the create shortcut option and you are good to go. Pinned contacts appear as chat heads on the android device’s home-screen.

3. Disable chat heads (Android only)

Floating chat heads are some of the most unique features of . They let you chat quickly without having to launch Facebook messenger. In any case, one may find the chat heads rather officious and in such a case you can easily disable them. For this, tap on the gear icon to go to Facebook messenger’s settings and un-check the chat heads option. Bare in mind that disabling chat heads has no effect on contacts pinned as shortcuts.

4. Download photos and videos over Wi-Fi to save data

Without limitation to text messages and stickers, Facebook messenger also lets you send and receive photos and videos. Nonetheless, the received photos and videos are downloaded automatically which if not restricted can be quite a pain in the neck if you are on a limited data plan. Gratefully, you can set Facebook messenger to download photos and videos only over Wi-Fi thereby saving data. To do this, simply go to Facebook messenger’s settings >> photos and media then check the use less data option. As simple as that.