You might occasionally try to search for something in the main search box of your messenger apps and instead get a list of suggested friends. You might be curious about how Messenger displays these lists and if they are legitimate or spam.
Other Ways to Remove Suggested People on Messenger
There are different approaches to getting rid of Facebook Messenger’s suggested contacts. Below is how to do so:
You Have a chat list on Messenger with the person
If you see people on the Messenger suggestions list who are not your friends, it must be because you have previously spoken to them. You can use your Messenger account to communicate with people you’re not friends with on Facebook. Your chats with the user are viewable once you’ve started a conversation, in the Messenger chat list.
To see if you can find the user’s chat, scroll down the list of chats in your Messenger account. To see if you have hidden or archived the user’s chat, also check the Archived section of the Messenger chats. You must first click on the profile picture icon and then select the Archived chats option in order to access the Archive section. There you’ll get the archived chat list.
How To Remove Suggestions on Messenger:
By using the two techniques listed below, you can delete the suggestions from Messenger on Android devices:
You can disable suggestions on Android Messenger by denying access to your contacts. To prevent Messenger from receiving any contacts to suggest, you must turn off the “Uploaded contacts” option.
The suggestions can be removed if you simply don’t upload the contacts in the first place and turn off the option because they are primarily displayed as a result of the uploaded contacts.
You shouldn’t ever tap the Upload All Contact button when Messenger prompts you to do so by showing it. If you do, it will begin to display recommendations and sync your device contacts with Facebook. Avoid clicking on the Upload All Contact button because you wouldn’t want that.
The steps you must take to remove the Upload contacts option are as follows:
Step 1: Open the Messenger application.
Step 2: Go to your profile by selecting the icon for your profile picture in the left-top corner of the screen.
Step 3: To find the option for Phone contacts, scroll down the page.
Step 4: You will see two options on the following page. After selecting Upload contacts, you must select Turn off.
It will stop Messenger from accessing your contact list, so you won’t see any suggestions.
You can also remove previously uploaded contacts from Messenger to stop Messenger on Android from displaying suggestions for you.
You can remove your uploaded contacts from Messenger so that no contacts are available as Messenger displays suggestions related to them.
To get rid of the suggestions, you must remove all previously uploaded contacts from the Manage Contacts page.
Here are the steps to delete uploaded contacts on Android:
Step 1: Open the Messenger application on your device.
Step 2: Click the profile picture icon in the top left corner to access the profile page.
Step 3: After finding the Phone Contacts option, scroll down and select Manage contacts.
Step 4: There you’ll find the option Delete All Contacts. Click on it to delete the previously uploaded contacts.
Step 5: This will remove all the suggestions from Messenger.
After the procedure is finished, sign out of Messenger and then log back in.