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How to Send a Silent Message on Messenger App
For those living under a rock! Messenger is one of the most popular messaging apps, along with other famous apps such as WhatsApp – both owned by Meta by the way – and one of the app’s features is the ability to send all types of media starting from text messages, to voice recordings and images, and not to mention videos. However, one of the drawbacks is the annoying notification sounds of the app, especially since Messenger often floods you with messages and drowns you in a wave of annoyance without you knowing why. For this reason, in addition to other reasons, wouldn’t it be better to send silent messages? The idea here is to send your message to someone without them receiving a notification. Fortunately, this can now be easily done.
Silent Messages Feature in Messenger
Firstly: What happens when you send a silent message on Messenger?
When you send a silent message to someone on Messenger, they will not receive a notification or read it until they open the app. Some might think that this feature is not official or that we will have to resort to convoluted ways to activate it, but the truth is quite the opposite; in March 2022, Meta added the Shortcuts feature to Messenger where you can enter a specific code in the chat box to include a shortcut that leads to performing a specific action within the conversation. Regarding silent messages, the company says that the purpose is to prevent disturbing others with app notifications while they are occupied with something important.
This feature works using a simple shortcut that we will learn about shortly, but first, you need to understand the nature of other shortcuts and their benefits. We’re talking about a shortcut like “everyone@” which is used to notify all chat members in group chats, and also “Pay/” which is a simple shortcut that allows users to safely send or receive money without any fees through the Messenger app (in limited countries) as well as “gif/” that lets you quickly find different animated images.
Secondly: How to send a silent message on Messenger?
As we mentioned; This feature is used using a simple shortcut (like the one mentioned above) in different conversations. The shortcut for sending silent messages on Messenger is “silent@”, and this shortcut is now available on the app, but only in its updated version, and you can verify this by going to the “ Play Store ” on Android or “ App Store ” on the iPhone and searching for “Messenger”; If you find the app needs an update, do so. It’s also worth mentioning that this feature is available in the web version on Messenger.com .
To send a silent message to someone on the Messenger app, open the app and enter the chat of the person or group you don’t want to disturb. Now type “ silent@ ” or “ /silent ” (without the quotation marks) in the chat box and the word “silent” will appear with a disabled bell icon. Click on this icon to enable the feature (you will notice it turning blue) then type the message you want and press the send button.
The silent message will be sent immediately to the account owner or group without leaving a trace; no notification, no annoying sound, nothing. The only issue is that the person will have to open the app to see it, as we mentioned, so you should not send silent messages in urgent situations. But messages will only be silent if the phone screen is off, if the phone is in use and the screen is on, a notification will be sent normally.