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Facebook Messenger Notification Won’t Go Away? Here is the Fix

Last updated on March 12, 2019 By Abhijith V M 19 Comments

Facebook Messenger Notification Won’t Go Away

Are you irritated of that constant notification dot from Facebook messenger?

Have you checked the ‘mark all read’ option and still its there? Have you tried to log in and out from your messenger several times and still somehow its there? Have you cleared the data and cache of your application from your smartphone but the problem persists?

If yes, then keep reading this post I have explained how you can get rid of that irritating notification dot from your messenger.

Sometimes Facebook messenger app shows you that you have received a message but when you check it you see no new messages.

Then you try to search for that message by scrolling through your chats and then also you are not able to find that unread message due to which the notification is showing.

Don’t worry your smartphone is not bugged with a virus or something. It is just a small problem in Facebook’s messenger app and sometimes it also happens when you access Facebook from a browser on your PC or laptop.

That red coloured notification is actually irritating when you have a lot of work and you receive important messages via Facebook. It distracts you from your work again and again and doesn’t go off even after checking it.

In this post, I am going to tell you how to get rid of that irritating notification dot from the Facebook messenger.

So, firstly before removing that notification sign we need to know why is that showing up in the first place.

Maybe you have some unread messages. No, not in your Inbox but in your ‘message requests’ or in ‘others’ inbox.

Check you ‘message requests’

  • Open your Facebook account in a web browser and click on the messenger icon.
  • Check you ‘message requests’ by clicking on message requests button.
  • Open your messenger app and click on the ‘People’ option as shown below.

Okay so now you have checked in your others inbox and also in message request and there is no unread message in there and still your Facebook messenger shows that notification sign telling you that you have a new message.

No problem I have a solution for that too.

What you can do now is that

  • Go to your messenger app or open your inbox in a browser.
  • Click on a recent message and click on ‘mark as unread’ as shown in the picture below.
  • Now log out from your Facebook account or close your Facebook messenger app.
  • Log in again and check the message you just marked as unread.

And as soon as you check that unread message the notification dot appearing should go away on its own. This trick has helped a lot of Facebook users get rid of that notification dot.

If the notification still persists and you want to really get rid of it you can ‘Report a Problem’ with Facebook’s support staff and they will help you in any possible way to remove that irritating notification icon appearing on your mobile or browser.

Filed Under: General

About Abhijith V M

SEO by profession, blogger by passion and engineer by mistake. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus

Comments

  1. Jimmeh says

    March 20, 2020 at 1:49 am

    this actually worked. well done.

    Reply
    • Christina says

      June 22, 2022 at 7:14 am

      Finally something that worked! Thank you!

      Reply
  2. Natalie says

    April 7, 2020 at 9:56 am

    Worked for me! Thank you so much!

    Reply
  3. Lola says

    April 14, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    YAYYYYYY This Totally worked….Thank you soooo much

    Reply
  4. Angel says

    April 15, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    I sign off & on the right corner keeps saying 20+ on red why is annoying

    Reply
    • Abhijith V M says

      April 15, 2020 at 7:11 pm

      Did you marked everything as ‘read’?

      Reply
  5. Frederic says

    July 27, 2020 at 9:44 pm

    This workable. I have the red color notification removed. Thank you for your help.

    Reply
  6. Katie Murphy says

    August 24, 2020 at 10:51 am

    Thank you!

    Reply
  7. Rachelle Marie McKay-McHugh says

    November 25, 2020 at 6:27 am

    Woohoo it works!! Thank you

    Reply
  8. Jean Bispham says

    March 6, 2021 at 4:50 am

    Thank you so much. It worked. I ‘unread’ about ten messages and then ‘read’ them and lo and behold silly notification went away. Thanks again.

    Reply
  9. SuperDave says

    March 24, 2021 at 5:25 am

    FINALLY! Thanks for posting this…..it was driving me insane!!

    Reply
  10. Cathy Grover says

    April 25, 2021 at 5:57 am

    Thank you so much, not sure why I find the badges so frustrating but I do and it was annoying me. Silly but true, again thank you.

    Reply
  11. Linda Gardar says

    July 31, 2021 at 4:56 am

    Messenger has a red dot on the phone app but not on the computer.
    It´s driving me nuts

    Reply
  12. Lesley says

    August 29, 2021 at 9:32 am

    Omg thank you this worked
    Now to work out how to make it work in business suite

    Reply
  13. Jim says

    November 12, 2021 at 12:30 am

    yes – it worked for me – thanks!

    Reply
  14. Keene Amada says

    December 29, 2021 at 4:42 pm

    YEY! It woKeemerks for me! Thank You!

    Reply
  15. Keene Amada says

    December 29, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    Yahoo! It works! Thank you!!

    Reply
  16. Artur says

    March 30, 2022 at 1:15 am

    I’ve had that problem recently – your solution helped 🙂 Thank you!

    Reply
  17. Aspect Alfa says

    April 20, 2022 at 6:17 am

    Thanks its works for me finally😀

    Reply

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