How to undo/cancel a Friend Request on Facebook

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You might have received friend requests from many people but from few you would have not accepted or rejected because you were not sure and kept them waiting in your friend request list. Ever wondered the same could have happened for your requests to others. In this post we are going to learn how you can find out those people who didn’t accept/reject your friend requests and also learn how to cancel those pending friend requests. Don’t worry, your friend wouldn’t know that you have canceled the request.

How to find Pending Facebook Friend Requests

Log onto Facebook on your desktop browser and click on the friend requests icon on top right corner. It would open up a menu to show the list of friend requests that you have received. On the bottom of the screen there would be an option “See All”, which when clicked would show you an option to view the requests that you have sent.

You should be looking at something like below. If you still couldn’t follow, please click on this link.

How to cancel/undo a friend request

Now, if you have changed your mind and would like to cancel the Friend request that you have sent to any of these, you can hover on the “Friend Request Sent” and it would show an option to cancel the request.

Alternatively, if you know the person who you sent the request you can visit their profile page and when you hover on the “Friend Request Sent” option, you should be able to cancel the same request.

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