How to hide Facebook page from friends

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Make your Friends list visible to some friends or just you
What to Know
How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List
How to Hide Your Friends List in the Facebook App
What Happens When You Hide Facebook Friends?
How do I hide my Facebook business page from friends?
Can a Facebook page be hidden?
How do I restrict who can see my Facebook page?

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Make your Friends list visible to some friends or just you

Updated on October 20, 2021

What to Know

Web browser: Go to Settings & Privacy > Settings > Privacy and select Edit next to Who can see your friends list.
Mobile: Go to Menu > Settings & Privacy > Settings > Audience and Visibility > How People Find and Contact You.
If you set your Friends list visibility to only yourself, people can still see mutual friends on your profile. Everything else is hidden.

It's possible to hide your Friends list on Facebook in case you don't want other users to see everyone else you're friends with. You can hide your Friends list from the general public, from specific friends, or from everyone. This article covers Facebook.com and the Facebook mobile app for iOS and Android.

How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List

To customize your Facebook privacy settings for your Friends list on Facebook.com:

Log in to Facebook.com, select the down arrow in the upper-right corner, and then select Settings & Privacy from the drop-down list.
Select Settings.
Select Privacy in the left menu.
In the How People Find and Contact You section, look for Who can see your friends list and select the Edit link to the right of it.
Select the drop-down menu to choose your new privacy setting.
To see how your profile looks to a public user (someone who's not your friend), navigate to your profile, select the three dots in the lower-right corner of your cover photo, and then select View As.

How to Hide Your Friends List in the Facebook App

The steps for changing your Friends list settings on the mobile app are similar:

Tap Menu (three horizontal lines).
Tap Settings & Privacy.
Tap Settings.
Scroll down to the Audience and Visibility section and tap How People Find and Contact You.
Tap Who can see your friends list.
Tap one of the options to set your privacy preferences.
If you set up custom Friends lists on Facebook, select See All to choose a custom list.

What Happens When You Hide Facebook Friends?

If you decide to set your Friends list visibility to only yourself (Only me), both friends and non-friends can still see mutual friends you may have under the Friends section on your profile. Only mutual friends are shown. The rest are hidden.

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You may want to prevent friends, parents or co-workers from seeing your Facebook profile. Fortunately, Facebook privacy has a solution: the limited profile feature. This feature lets you control what parts of your profile a friend can see and which parts stay hidden. Facebook divides the limited profile features into three groups: "Things I Share," which includes status updates, general profile information and check-ins; "Things Others Share," like tagged photos, wall posts and comments; and "Contact Information," which blocks your home address, email address or phone number.

Step 1

Step 2

Click "Custom Settings" from the "Custom" tab.

Step 3

Decide what to prevent the person from seeing. Click the drop-down menu beside the profile feature you want to block and select "Customize." Type the person's name in the box and hit "Enter." Prevent multiple friends from seeing your information by adding a comma after the first friend's name, then typing the second friend. For example, hide status updates from the friend by typing her name in the "Posts by Me" column. Prevent her from seeing tagged photos of you by entering her name under "Photos and videos you're tagged in."

Step 4

Make your entire profile invisible by entering the person's name manually under each section; there is no fast way to do this. Speed up the process by typing the person's name, highlighting it and copying it by right-clicking the name and selecting "Copy." Right-click and paste it in the name box for each entry.

How do I hide my Facebook business page from friends?

How to make a Facebook business page private on your desktop.

Click on "Pages" on the left. ... .

Select "Settings" at the very bottom. ... .

Click "Edit" next to "Page visibility." ... .

Click "Page unpublished," then "Save Changes." ... .

Select a reason and click "Next." ... .

Click "Unpublish." ... .

Click "Close" to complete the process..

Can a Facebook page be hidden?

If you want to hide the page, go to the “Page Visibility” section, and just tap the “Unpublish” option. That's it. You can then go back to your page, and you'll see that it has been unpublished.

How do I restrict who can see my Facebook page?

Tap in the top right of Facebook, then tap your name. Tap See More About Yourself on your profile. Tap or Edit to update your information. If applicable, use the audience selector when you tap or Edit to choose who you're sharing it with.