{"id":12145,"date":"2022-07-14T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=12145"},"modified":"2022-07-14T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T06:51:18","slug":"how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Messenger Without Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a1d67f6a84f0\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a1d67f6a84f0\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a1d67f6a84f0\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook\/#How_to_Use_Messenger_Without_Facebook\" title=\"How to Use Messenger Without Facebook\">How to Use Messenger Without Facebook<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook\/#Can_you_use_Messenger_without_a_Facebook_account\" title=\"Can you use Messenger without a Facebook account?\">Can you use Messenger without a Facebook account?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook\/#Can_you_create_a_Messenger_account_without_reactivating_your_Facebook_account\" title=\"Can you create a Messenger account without reactivating your Facebook account?\">Can you create a Messenger account without reactivating your Facebook account?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-to-use-messenger-without-facebook\/#Can_you_sign_out_of_Messenger_without_reactivating_your_Facebook_account\" title=\"Can you sign out of Messenger without reactivating your Facebook account?\">Can you sign out of Messenger without reactivating your Facebook account?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Use_Messenger_Without_Facebook\"><\/span>How to Use Messenger Without Facebook<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"how to use messenger without facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Uie1YMq.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering how to use Messenger without Facebook, then you&#8217;re not alone! Even if you&#8217;ve already created an account with Facebook, you can still make use of Messenger. You can download the app from either the App Store or Google Play, but make sure to download the official version; you don&#8217;t want to risk downloading malware or signing out of Messenger. Here are a few ways to get started:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_you_use_Messenger_without_a_Facebook_account\"><\/span>Can you use Messenger without a Facebook account?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You may be asking yourself, &#8220;Can you use Messenger without a Facebook account?&#8221; Fortunately, yes, you can. Until December 26, 2015, Facebook only allowed you to sign up for Messenger using a Facebook account. But now, the process has changed. You can still use Messenger without a Facebook account, but it will require you to sign up for a temporary Facebook account. Read on to learn more about the process.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering whether you can sign up for Messenger without a Facebook account, here&#8217;s what you need to know. Creating a Facebook account will set up your Messenger account, but you will not be able to change your profile picture. The Messenger app will display your Facebook profile picture next to your name, and you cannot delete this. If you don&#8217;t want to use Messenger without a Facebook account, make sure to deactivate your Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>Log in to your Facebook account and choose Settings. In the Messenger app, click Profile. You will then be redirected to the Messenger app. Once you&#8217;re inside the app, tap on Account Settings. From here, select Security and Login. You&#8217;ll be prompted to enter your password to access Messenger. After you&#8217;ve logged in, you&#8217;ll see a link to download Messenger.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_you_create_a_Messenger_account_without_reactivating_your_Facebook_account\"><\/span>Can you create a Messenger account without reactivating your Facebook account?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve forgotten how to create a Messenger account without re-activating your Facebook account, there&#8217;s a simple solution. All you have to do is visit Facebook.com and click &#8220;Create Account.&#8221; You&#8217;ll be given a new account with a fresh list of contacts and messages. If you don&#8217;t want people to see your old Messenger account, you can also hide your status. Simply click on your profile picture to toggle your status.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to keep using Messenger after deactivating your Facebook account, you can sign in with the same Facebook username and password. This way, you won&#8217;t have to worry about reactivating your Facebook account. Moreover, you&#8217;ll still be able to keep communicating with people who use Messenger. This is a great way to keep in touch with old friends. Even though Messenger messages will be buried, they&#8217;ll still be visible if they&#8217;re sent from a deactivated Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>While Facebook and Messenger are closely linked, they work separately. Earlier, Messenger supported registering without a Facebook account. But that option has now been phased out. If you don&#8217;t want to sign up with Facebook, you can always create a Messenger account using your phone number. But since Facebook wants everyone to be on their network, you&#8217;ll need to reactivate your Facebook account to continue using Messenger.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_you_sign_out_of_Messenger_without_reactivating_your_Facebook_account\"><\/span>Can you sign out of Messenger without reactivating your Facebook account?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How to sign out of Messenger without re-activating your Facebook account? Activating Messenger means you&#8217;ve deactivated your Facebook account, but you can still access all of your messages and conversations without logging back into Facebook. If you&#8217;re wondering why deactivating your Facebook account would be a good idea, you&#8217;ll want to read this linked article. After all, Facebook doesn&#8217;t want you to lose all your progress and activity on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to deactivate your Facebook account. After deactivating your account, sign in to Messenger using your email address and password. This way, your Messenger account won&#8217;t automatically re-activate when you delete your Facebook account. Then, open Messenger and click on &#8220;Log in.&#8221; Alternatively, you can simply disable the &#8220;Active Status&#8221; feature, which will make it appear as if you&#8217;re offline. This way, people won&#8217;t send you messages unless you actually check your Messenger account.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been using Messenger for several months, you should be able to deactivate it from the settings page in the Messenger app. The Facebook app on your phone will return to a freshly-installed state. If you want to reactivate your Facebook account, you&#8217;ll need to go through these steps again, this time from the main Facebook app. Once you&#8217;ve done that, you should be able to log in to Messenger without any Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Use Messenger Without Facebook If you&#8217;re wondering how to use Messenger without Facebook, then you&#8217;re not alone! Even if you&#8217;ve already created an account with Facebook, you can still make use of Messenger. 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