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title: "How can I use the Facebook Messenger without a phone number?"  
description: "How can I use the Facebook Messenger without a phone number?"  
author: "mickey Davis"  
published: 2018-01-05  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32573/how-can-i-use-the-facebook-messenger-without-a-phone-number  
category: "social networking"  
tags: ["facebook", "social media"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can I use the Facebook Messenger without a phone number?

How can I use the [Facebook Messenger](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32574/can-someone-who-has-your-phone-number-find-you-on-facebook-messenger) without a [phone](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84934/man-who-invented-cell-phone-uses-iphone-2023-view) number?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

**There is no compulsion of having a phone number or registering your number with a [messenger](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50437/how-to-fix-messenger-that-keeps-crashing-or-stops-working-on-your-iphone-x-after-installing-a-new-ios-update) to use messenger.** You simply operate messenger by syncing up your [**Facebook**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32568/was-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-s-original-idea) account with your messenger application.

![How can I use the Facebook Messenger without a phone number?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/bb5b1010-1900-4951-814f-12847ccf7210/images/63e0c9a1-18db-495d-b4a0-3ceddf1a2b57.png)\

**Follow these simple steps to sync your Facebook account with messenger:**

- Log in to Facebook application and minimize it
- Tap on the application store and download messenger

![How can I use the Facebook Messenger without a phone number?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/bb5b1010-1900-4951-814f-12847ccf7210/images/9927e5e6-b50d-42fe-a55d-743668d017b2.png)\

- After it gets installed on your phone open it
- It will ask you to log in to Facebook just tap on it.

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**Well, it asks you to sync your contact number too but that’s not necessary you can easily skip it and operate messenger without adding up your number.** **\****"Hope it was informative"**


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