Does Profile Picture Disappear When Blocked On Messenger?

✎ Key Points:

» When you’re seeing a blank profile picture on someone’s Facebook profile then you should know that either the person deleted his profile picture or you’re blocked.

» If you are ignored on Facebook Messenger then you cannot contact that person from your end.

» But to find out whether you’re blocked on Messenger you have to put some effort and verifying if the messages are delivered.

If the person deactivates his Facebook profile, you will also see error messages like a profile or person does not exist on Facebook.

Does Profile Picture Disappear When Blocked On Messenger?

The profile picture does affect separately and totally depends on how someone has blocked you on Facebook:

When someone blocks you on Messenger then his/her profile picture will be unchanged, you will still be able to see the profile picture from the Facebook timeline and see all the stuff he/she shared on Facebook.

What Happens if You Get Blocked on Facebook or Messenger:

If you get blocked on Facebook or Messenger, there are many things that you might face:

1. Impacts on Profile Picture

🔴 When Blocked on Facebook:

If someone blocks you on Facebook, it is a total block by that person on Facebook. You will see the blank profile picture on the profile as well as in your inbox on Messenger.

2. Impacts on Inbox Messages

If you are wondering what actually happens to the messages and inbox then this also has some clues to find out whether you’re blocked on Facebook or just your messages are blocked:

The common thing between these two is, that your sent messages will not be delivered to that person in both circumstances.

🔴 When Blocked on Messenger:

If you’re blocked on Messenger then you will see the single tick on your sent messages but those messages will not be delivered either by now or later on. All of your comments and likes to posts of that person will still be visible to that person and this could be a way to communicate with that person.

🔴 When Blocked on Facebook:

In case the person has blocked you on Facebook, along with the messages your visibility to posts and his profile will be restricted. All you see is a ‘This page isn’t available’ tag when you tap on that profile and you can confirm just by signing out and viewing the profile with the link if it is there.

That’s all you will see and find out whether you get blocked on not. Normally, if someone blocks you only on Messenger that is supposed to be a temporary block but unless he removes it you cannot send messages.

Why Can’t I See someone’s profile picture on Messenger:

These are the following reasons:

1. He might have deactivated his profile

If you can’t see the profile picture of some Facebook users, it might be because the user has deactivated his account. Once the user deactivated his Facebook account, it becomes unavailable to see on the Facebook platform till the owner re-activates it again.

The deactivation is temporary after which you’ll be able to see the user’s profile picture again. During the deactivation period, you’ll not be able to see or find his posts on Facebook or send messages to the user.

🔴 Steps To Use:

Here’s how you can deactivate your Facebook account:

Step 1: Open the Facebook application. Log into your Facebook account entering the correct login details.

Step 2: Next, you need to click on the three lines icon. Then, click on the gear icon to open the Settings & Privacy page. Click on the Personal and Account information option.

Step 3: Then click on the Account Ownership and control option. Next, click on Deactivation and Deletion.

Step 4: Then, click on Continue to account deactivation. Enter your Facebook account’s password. Then click on Continue. Select a reason, and click on Continue.

Step 5: On the next page, choose the period and click on Continue. Next, click on Deactivate my account.

2. He has blocked you on Messenger and Facebook both

When you’re unable to see someone’s display picture, it might be because the user has blocked you on both Messenger and Facebook.

When someone blocks you on Messenger and Facebook, then you won’t be able to find the user on Facebook or Messenger. You can search for the user and see if you can’t find his account on Facebook or not. If you can’t find his profile in the search results, it means that the user has blocked you.

🔴 Steps to Block on Facebook:

Step 1: Open the Facebook app. Log into your account.

Step 2: Next, you need to search for the user. Then, enter his profile from the search results.

Step 3: Next, you need to click on the three dots icon. Then click on Block.

Step 4: Confirm it by clicking on Block on the confirmation box.

🔴 Steps to Block on Messenger:

Step 1: Open the Messenger account. Then, search for the user’s chat.

Step 2: Click on the chat. Next, click on the profile icon.

Step 3: Scroll down and click on Block. Click on Block messages and calls.

3. He does have any photo on his Profile

When you’re unable to see someone’s profile picture on Facebook, it can be because the user doesn’t have a profile picture on his account or he has recently removed his profile picture from his account.

You can check this yourself by searching for the user, and then from the search results, get into his profile and see if the display picture circle shows blank or not.

If it shows blank, you can click on it to see if anything opens up or not. If no picture opens up, it’s because the user doesn’t have one.

How to know if someone blocked you on Facebook Messenger:

Everyone should realize that when we chat with someone, that conversation also opens in a URL on Facebook.

Messages will not be delivered to the person when blocked. However, if he unblocks you the sent messages during that blocking period will not be delivered later once unblocked.

There you will see the ‘Report Spam and Abuse..’ option from the list. Just click on “Report Spam and Abuse”. Simply look at what is popping out after clicking that button. If you are blocked then this option would not let you do further. It will show ‘Operation Prohibited’.

Know if someone blocked you on Messenger without Messaging Them:

Facebook Messenger is an incredible way to communicate. With Messenger, we can chat soundlessly, and now live call is available on the latest version of Facebook Messenger. But when it says unable to send messages and shows an error then it becomes truly disturbing.

As you know messenger got popular to chat and make calls for free. There is no timeline to have to face. The reason it is popular for its user-friendliness. But, if you got blocked on Facebook Messenger by someone, you can confirm this with two things.

When some chats are going on and a continuous chat (one of those) get stopped then this influences our mindset to off.

◘ Either this individual blocked you while chat was going on or he just has deactivated his profile. Along these lines, as a matter of first importance, refresh the messenger app and check what is appearing in the name of that individual.

◘ If you see any connection error with your app, it would not load and will show the same error. In that case, you cannot be sure that he blocked you.

◘ But, if you see ‘Facebook User’ on that name then it might be the reason that he blocked you. To make it confirm we need to do another test, after that we can state what is an actual case here!…

◘ For confirmation, go to the desktop or mobile browser window in incognito mode (while logged out) and open the person’s profile URL. If you are able to find that one then you are blocked, but if not able to find it, it means he deactivated his Facebook profile. It is simple.

How to Find out if You’re Blocked only on Facebook Chat:

This is very simple to say. Facebook has an option also for Chat settings where you can see ‘block messages‘ by clicking on the gear icon. Once someone blocks your messages using that option then you will not be able to send any messages to that person.

But, the others will be visible to you. You can comment and reply to him in the comments. The settings here only block you from sending messages to him.

If you are unable to send messages to a person but on the other hand you can do all stuff then it means he blocked you in Chat or Messenger but not Facebook. You are still a friend of that person and he can unblock you anytime he wants.