PLEASE NOTE: If you are looking for information on how to Disable Facebook Chat so that your pesky friends don’t bug you when you are on facebook, Click here.
A lot of people are trying to find out how to disable the new Facebook “feature” that saves your full chat directly into the messages inbox as a conversation, whether you want it or not. The sad fact is that there is no way to disable this. The best that you can do for now is to manually delete the unwanted conversations, and that is a total pain.
Go to "privacy setting"On the bottom choose "Apps and Websites"Below the "Apps and Websites" click "edit your setting"On the section of "Apps you use" click "edit setting" you can see you have an app "chat history manager" that generate auto save of your chat log into inbox.On "chat history manager" there’s an "x" besides "edit setting" to remove the apps.Click the "x" to remove the chat manager then click ok.
Update 2011/06/09
Sorry folks, bad news... That solution didn’t work.
After much digging around, searching, investigating and a few Inspector Clouseau impersonations, I have arrived at the conclusion that there is no way to disable Chat Saving Directly into Messages.
I can only hope that as FB rolls out its plans to become an integrated email/Cell/chat/social provider that they will improve the messaging system and fix this, but I won’t hold my breath.
Update 2011/06/17
There is still no word from the facebook development team on how they plan to deal with this, but I know a lot of facebook users are not happy with the chat saving. Some have even claimed that they have lost their girlfriends or jobs as a result of the feature, while others complain that it makes using system difficult as it clogs up the Facebook inbox. If the past precedent is anything to go by, the problem will probably be ignored until it reached a critical mass of unhappy users.
Help get this prioritized and tell Facebook what you think http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=suggestions
i didnt see the chat history manager in my apps but it still auto saving my chat message? how come?
ReplyDeleteTo delete the saved chat with someone delete him as a friend.
DeleteNo chat history manager for me either
ReplyDeleteI also dont have that app in my list. instead i turned off all plattform apps, games and websites, i am not sure though that it worked.
ReplyDeleteSorry guys, it seems that I jumped the gun with this one, please see the update to my post.
ReplyDeletehey really its creating a problem...please do give a setting where we can enable / disable as per our choice the chat settings....
ReplyDeletefuck my life !
ReplyDeletecan i tell sumting
ReplyDeletem really pissd off by this agar chnage nhi hua to i iwll switch off to sumother website
seriously man it is irritating
plzz tell the authority concernd make it as it was plzzzzzzzzzzza
Hi bhavna
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, go to http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=suggestions and tell the Facebook team to add an option to disable this.
If enough people request it they might do it.
I Found how you can turn of messages in inbox, simply go to account settings, and delete facebook e-mail you made for the last ... After that the messages will not be saved in your inbox.
ReplyDeleteI don't even have a facebook e-mail account, my messages still get saved!
ReplyDeleteI have now submitted a request to Facebook Team and gently asked for a feature that makes you able to Disable the chat history to be saved amon the Messages.
ReplyDeleteThanks Carl for taking your time to Investigate this !!!
/Carina , Sweden
Thanks Carina, we can only hope the FB team sort this out soon.
ReplyDeletePROBLEM SOLVE GUYS!!!!!! just open the message you want to delete. then at the upper right, there's an action button, just click the dropdown and then select DELETE MESSAGES. that's it.
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ReplyDeletereached a critical mass of unhappy users!! ALREADY!!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteGreat tips...Rather than deleting each and every messages, its easy to archive threaded messages. The main messages page has this option. Then you can go back and look at them late if you need to.
Thanks.
Mind checking out my post on facebook chat in inbox?
ReplyDeleteFacebook don't have option to disable chat history.
ReplyDeleteKuhinje, did you even read the post?
ReplyDeleteThanks you for providing such good information. About the friends displayed, update your settings to all click on the little wheel thinly on the facebook chat.
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Since there's no easy way to disable chat history archiving, you may want to have a look at fbsweeper. It'll automatically delete message and chat history. Just tell it how often to check and how old they have to be to delete.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how far back chat history is saved? I am wondering if chat history was being saved in the messages back in the summer of 2010? I delete all of my messages, so I can't back track. But was wondering if the person I was conversing with in May of '10 would have our chat conversation saved in his messages?
ReplyDeletehello, everybody, good mornig, let's go to hands on, so i was very angry about this new facebook's feature. and i get it.this is my remedy. i didn't disable such feature, insted of i went offline on the facebook website, and i set up a software (by the way is open source, that's mean you don't need any kind of license for use it) its name is pigdin that is a universal chat client, you can add accounts like facebook,gmail talk,hotmail,yahoo, etc. here is the link where you can found a lot of documentation about it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pidgin.im/
with that solution, i have not saved messages into facebook's website, because everyting is handle by pidgin universal chat client.
cheers, and good luck
Thank you for this. I am getting so fed up of people sending me invites for applications that I have no interest in. I must get about 50 invites to play those farm and cafe games every day!
ReplyDeleteHi Yasmeen
ReplyDeleteHave a look at http://www.cio.com/article/692624/Facebook_Tip_How_to_Block_Annoying_App_and_Event_Invites for information on blocking application invites and news feed spam.
"some have even claimed that they have lost their girlfriends or jobs as a result of the feature"
ReplyDeleteUh, you lost your girlfriend or job because you were having inappropriate conversations, not because Facebook saved them.
Don't blame your being a scumbag on a Facebook feature, it's pathetic.
I have the new format , I have been not used it so I normally keep everything set to “offline” unless I am looking for somebody in particular to be on, like a family member, to chat with. :D
ReplyDeleteTo delete the saved chat with someone delete him as a friend.
ReplyDeleteactually carl i did the way you described but unable to do because of insufficient information.please give more details so i can...
ReplyDeleteby the way you have creative thinking and gave us a new techpie to investigate.
thanks for such sharp research
thank you carl ...actually i did not know how to disable that feature in facebook.
ReplyDeletei will try and see what happens.
thank you for sharing.
actually i ws searchin fr sum thing else .. can yo plz tel me d way hw can i save d messages without sending it?? i meant i wanted to send sms to d person whom i love but bcoz of sum reasons i cant so i can save it without sending him..
ReplyDeleteThere's no simple way around this short of manually deleting every conversation on facebook. The reason they started doing it is because anything saved on their servers is legally their property, so if they force you to save your messages, their ad bots can go trolling them for marketing info. The only way around it is to bulk delete them but it's a bit of a pain. Firefox users will need to install and Add-On called Greasemonkey, which allows for installation of scripts/macros in Mozilla. Now be warned, macros can be dangerous, so watch what you install. After you've installed Greasemonkey go to userscripts.org and do a quick search for "Delete All Facebook Messages" and you'll find some scripts associated with it. Basically all it does is put a "Delete All" button in the root of your inbox, it makes things a lot easier. Happy hunting...
ReplyDeleteI also dont have that app in my list. instead i turned off all platform apps, games and websites, i am not sure though that it worked.
ReplyDeleteThis would be a feature that is standard to disable in MSN/Skype and so on.
ReplyDeleteWhy do I have to sit and manually delete the chats I make?
Why did Facebook just re-published all my info that I deleted 4 years ago for their recent update? - had to spend 2 hours deleting pictures on my timeline of a girlfriend in 2008 - it would have ruined my current relationship if she saw those posts....
Facebook have some of the best programmers in the world make their stuff - and think to yourself - why didn't they already implement this feature - simple - because they didnt want to....and stalling it with Mark S. in the frontline for the FBI/CIA and others...
Thousands of users dont even know that once they delete the messages - it go into to ARCHIVE - and you have to go into your ARCHIVE to actually delete the conversation ! and deleting it there - for sure its NOT deleted, but saved at the data center of FBI/CIA to retrive at a later point should that be necessary...
All laptops are now installed with a webcam - and someone can turn-on your webcam without you even know it....and watch what you are doing..right in your living room.
watchout people - this internet is going the wrong way !
Be Paranoid - its normal !
How do I quickly skip to my first facebook message from my convo with my girlfriend? I have over 70965 messages so it'd take a long while to scroll all the day back.. any suggestions?
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