Delete a community chat on Messenger or Facebook

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Community chats will be going away soon.
You can download your Community chat messages before they’re permanently deleted. To download your information:
  1. Open the Messenger app.
  2. Tap Learn more on the Community chats banner at the top.
  3. Tap Download your information.
  4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note: Before Community chats are deleted, they will be paused. You can still read messages, but you won't be able to send new ones.
You can keep your group connected by creating a similar Messenger Community. This community will be seperatefrom your Facebook group, but you can:
  • Start a main chat for members
  • Share important news and updates with announcements
  • Share or plan events
Community chats are chats created specifically for Facebook groups. Note that they are not available to all groups (example: commerce groups) or people at this time.
Only admins and moderators can delete community chats in your Facebook group. Deleting a community chat will permanently delete the chat and all its content from both Facebook and Messenger. Note: Admins & Moderators chats can't be deleted.
Members can't delete community chats, but they can:

Delete a community chat on Messenger

From messenger.com on a computer
  1. From the left menu, click on a group to open it.
  2. Click on the community chat you want to delete.
  3. In the right menu, find Privacy & support. You may need to click to expand the menu.
  4. Click Delete chat.
  5. Click Delete chat to confirm.

Delete a community chat on Facebook

From facebook.com on a computer
  1. Go to facebook.com/groups and select your group.
  2. From the left menu, click Chats.
  3. Click on the community chat you want to delete.
  4. Click on the name of the chat at the top of the chat window.
  5. Scroll down, then click Delete chat.
  6. Click Delete chat to confirm.