Last Updated on December 14, 2020

You’re currently stuck with an annoying message,  #230 Permissions disallow message to user, when you tried to send a quick message to your Messenger contact but don’t know what the heck it is all about?

There are some reasons why you can’t send message on Messenger as a result of  #230 Permissions disallow message to user that keeps getting your way from sending the message.

From the options that we will list below, you have to do a manual check to confirm where the issue falls. Then figure out how to deal with it right away.

Solutions to  #230 permissions disallow message to user issue on Messenger

1. They earlier blocked you on Messenger
2. They have deactivated their account
3. They have marked most of your messages as Spam

1. They earlier blocked you on Messenger

To block someone on Messenger is different from blocking someone on Facebook. They are two separate apps.

When your messenger contact blocks you, you won’t be able to send them message again.

You may either get “This person isn’t available right now” or the Messenger box becomes disabled“.

When someone finally unblocks you after being blocked, you can continue to send and receive messages again.

But, when you continue to receive the error message,  #230 permissions disallow message to user, it shows that the unblocking has not yet been removed from Facebook.

Although, you can send and receive messages from other contacts. You have to try these solutions to check if it works for you.

Solutions:

1. Check if the person has blocked you on Facebook. You can do this by visiting their Facebook profile page. If you can still see their name, timeline, then you are not blocked on Facebook.
2. If you can contact the person, tell them that you want to delete them so that they add you back.
   • If you are friends on Facebook, simply unfriend him/her and ask them to send you friend request.
   • Then delete the contact from Messenger. Click here to learn how to delete a contact from Messenger
   • If you are not friends on Facebook, just contact on Messenger, then follow the link above to delete a contact on Messenger

2. They have deactivated their account

It is normal for people to deactivate their Facebook account. It is a personal consideration. So when someone deactivate their Facebook account, you can send them messages again until they come back to reactivate it.

Just like our first option, because someone has earlier disabled their account as well as messaging, it can also cause the messenger issue #230 Permissions disallow message to user to appear.

This solution is exactly as earlier.

Solutions:

1. Check if the person has blocked you on Facebook. You can do this by visiting their Facebook profile page. If you can still see their name, timeline, then you are not blocked on Facebook.
2. If you can contact the person, tell them that you want to delete them so that they add you back.
   • If you are friends on Facebook, simply unfriend him/her and ask them to send you friend request.
   • Then delete the contact from Messenger. Click here to learn how to delete a contact from Messenger
   • If you are not friends on Facebook, just contact on Messenger, then follow the link above to delete a contact on Messenger

3. They have marked most of your messages as Spam

Spam? When someone mark your messages as spam, it tells Messenger that the messages are not wanted.

Spam messages are found to be very disturbing messages just like those you see in your Mailbox.

If someone has marked several of your messages as spam, there could be a possibility that you have been whipped.

The only thing after that you have tried the first two options above is to delete the contact and continue with other friends.

4. Their account is pending for either verification or authorization

For countries like United States and some other Europeans, Facebook has made a strict restrictions on how accounts are created and managed. This restriction is to reserve its user privacy and fight against fake account and hijacking.

If the Facebook account you tried to send a message resulting to a #230 Permissions disallow message to user is a newer account then there is a chance that Facebook either wants the owner to verify it or reauthourize login.

Facebook account verification could be done either by SMS or email while reauthorization is done by logging out from a device or particular browser and then login again. Authorization is important Facebook because they want the owner to login and authorize some privacy.

If any of these are not done, the recipient account can be kept pending to receive message.

5. Messenger might be down

We drew our assertion from our daily visitor statistics. Sometimes, there will be a huge traffic from #230 Permissions disallow message to user through Google on aa single day. Sometimes there will be just few traffic from the keyword.

Since Messenger sometimes breaks connection from their server, it could also result to some of its functionalities not working properly.

If you have known the Facebook friend you’re sending message to so well that the above suggestions are not valid enough then what you have to do is to unfriend the person, delete your Messenger conversation and come back after 72 hours (2 days).

Tell them to send you a friend request. You don’t need to send them a request. Just accept the friend request and let them also send you the first message.

Possibly this should work. All our suggestions are based from our experiences and not in any form from Facebook.

Conclusion: 

As a normal Facebook user, if you experience the error #230 Permissions disallow message, you don’t need to either enable or disable messenger platform from Facebook settings. Here’s few things that may work for you;

1. Unfriend that friend or tell them to unfriend you
2. Delete your conversations with them. Possibly tell them to do the same
3. Do not resend a friend request until at least 24 hours
4. Now send or accept friend request from each other. You either send or accept.
5. Tell them to start a new conversation with you. You don’t need to start the conversation.

Are you confused about the above statements? Below are the explanation of the 5 steps written above.

The main reason why you receive the error #230 Permissions disallow message is because you have been flagged by Messenger to either send or receive message from the other contact.

Now, we try to erase every instance of your previous relationship with the person by first disconnecting yourself from the said contact and establishing a fresh connection again. Although Messenger has already marked your Messenger ID.

But that’s not a big deal in this case. We hope the tweak work for you but it is not a guarantee that everything will work for you.

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