How to disable SMS on Facebook Messenger

One of the troubles of Facebook Messenger is to want to sell itself as an application to send and receive SMS from your Android smartphone. Today we are going to see how disable SMS on Facebook Messenger, a feature currently only available on Android and not on iPhone or iPad and which has stunned many people. It concerns the arrival of notifications from Facebook via normal messages and the display of the latter also on Messenger, imposing the Messenger app as default application for SMS.

All this, however, makes the visualization of the messages unclear, which will be quite confused with each other, even if divided by color: the classic Facebook conversations will continue to be indicated with blue, while those of the SMS col purple, as shown in the photo.

Perhaps the only positive idea was to allow access to all the other advanced features that Messenger offers, even sending images, videos, audio, stickers and the ability to share the geographical location in SMS forwarded via Messenger. But if you are not particularly excited about the idea, let's see together how to disable this function.

Disable SMS in Messenger

After opening Facebook Messenger, press the profile icon at the top right and continue tapping on SMS, the application item will appear SMS su Messenger. To deactivate the function, change the indicator (switch) to deactivated as shown in the photo.

As already mentioned above, once this new function is activated you can also receive SMS notification from Facebook every time someone sends you a friend request, comments on your post, etc. It may also happen that you receive a notification in which you will be notified that additional costs may be charged for this operation but do not worry! Receiving SMS it does not involve any cost, while the standard rate of your operator if you answer to these messages to be able to comment or leave like.

To disable the arrival of these notifications you must access your Facebook account settings and select the item SMS -> Notifications and deselect the blue check that will come out next to the various options that have appeared, choosing whether or not to receive notifications when someone comments on your post, when a friend request arrives, or for all other notifications.

Conclusions

We have seen that it is not very complicated to disable notifications and SMS on the Facebook Messenger app, one last piece of advice I would like to give you to simplify everything is to deactivate the telephone number directly that you have associated on Facebook by performing the same steps as before, that is to select the account settings> SMS> Current phone number> Remove.

As always, if you have any problems you can leave a comment.

How to disable SMS on Facebook Messenger