Top 7 Ways to Fix Facebook Messenger Notification Won’t Go Away (2024)

Facebook Messenger notifications aren’t meant to stick around after you have read them, but sometimes they do anyway. The persistent Messenger notifications can be annoying. Thankfully, there’s no need to put up with it, as it is possible to make the Facebook Messenger notification go away.

As helpful as Messenger notifications are, you wouldn’t want them to remain on your phone indefinitely. In this guide, we have listed fixes to remove the annoying unread notification on Facebook Messenger.

1. Turn Off Message Reminders

When you enable message reminders in Messenger, the app occasionally sends notifications about unread messages. As a result, a Messenger notification may reappear even after you dismiss it. To avoid any confusion, it’s best to disable message reminders in the Messenger app.

Step 1: Open the Messenger app on your phone, tap the hamburger menu icon at the top-left corner, and then tap the gear icon at the top-right corner to open the Settings menu.

Step 2: Tap on Notifications & sounds and disable the toggle next to Message reminders.

2. Mark Your Messages as Read

Facebook Messenger may sometimes fail to mark your messages as read, even after you have opened them. This can happen due to issues with your internet connection or a temporary app glitch. To fix this, you can mark your messages as read manually by following these steps:

Step 1: Open the Messenger app on your Android or iPhone.

Step 2: Scroll through the list to locate any unread conversation. Long press on it and select Mark as read from the resulting menu.

3. Check Message Requests and Archived Messages

If Facebook Messenger displays a notification but there are no new messages, it could be due to pending message requests or unread archived messages. Here’s how you can mark them as read.

Step 1: Open the Messenger app on your phone, tap the hamburger menu icon (three horizontal lines) at the top-left corner, and select Message requests.

Step 2: Long-press on the unread conversation and select Mark as read.

Step 3: Tap the menu icon again and select Archive.

Step 4: Open your unread conversations one by one to mark them as read.

4. Disable and Re-Enable Notifications for the Messenger App

If the notification is still not going away, you can resolve the problem by disabling and re-enabling notifications for the Facebook Messenger app. Here’s how.

Android

Step 1: Tap and hold the Messenger app icon and tap the info icon from the menu that pops up.

Step 2: On the app info page, tap on Notifications. Disable the toggle next to Allow notifications and then enable it.

iPhone

Step 1: Open Settings and scroll down to tap on Messenger.

Step 2: Select Notifications and toggle off the switch next to Allow Notifications. Wait for a few seconds and turn it back on.

5. Sign Out and Sign Back In

The Messenger app could misbehave and trouble you with such issues if there your account has a problem. You can remove your account from the app and adding it back to see if that works. Here’s how you can go about it.

Step 1: Open the Messenger app, tap the menu icon at the top and then tap the gear icon to visit the settings menu.

Step 2: Tap on ‘See more in Account Center’ option.

Step 3: Go to Password and security and select ‘Where you’re logged in’ from the following menu.

Step 4: Tap on ‘Select devices to log out.’ Then, select your device from the list and tap the Log Out button at the bottom.

Sign back into the Messenger app and check if the issue persists.

6. Clear App Cache (Android)

Interference from a corrupt or outdated app cache can cause Messenger to malfunction on your Android. You can purge the existing app cache to resolve the problem.

Step 1: Long-press on the Messenger app icon and tap the ‘i’ icon from the menu that appears.

Step 2: Go to Storage and tap the Clear cache option at the bottom-right corner.

7. Update the App

App updates can also go wrong at times. If the Facebook Messenger notification isn’t going away due to a bug within the app, it shouldn’t take long for Meta to address and resolve the issue in a subsequent update.

Head to Play Store (Android) or App Store (iPhone) on your phone and search for the Messenger app. If a newer version is available, tap the Update button to install it.

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Say Goodbye to Stuck Notifications

Dealing with stubborn Facebook Messenger notifications that won’t go away can be frustrating. Hopefully, one of the methods mentioned above has helps you solve the problem.