# How to make it so that admins are not able to view private messages of their users?

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**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-it-so-that-admins-are-not-able-to-view-private-messages-of-their-users/117191 "2019-05-08T16:52:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-it-so-that-admins-are-not-able-to-view-private-messages-of-their-users/117191/9 "2019-05-08T18:44:18Z")

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> [@dnk8n](#):
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> However, what would it take to simply hide the message icon from admins?

If you want to hide the message icon, you could probably do it with a theme component.

If you wanted to make it a little harder to bypass, you could have a plugin do it.

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