To make a Facebook page private, you'll have to unpublish it — this will give you time to make changes without the public seeing. To unpublish a Facebook business page, you'll have to head to its settings on either your mobile app or desktop browser.
Unpublishing it will render it temporarily private, and you can publish it again at any time. You may find this feature helpful when you need to make edits — whether they are quick fixes or major updates to the page.
Unfortunately, there's no option to make a Facebook business page permanently private to only certain people, as the point of a business page is to promote something to the public. If you're interested in making a more exclusive space, you may want to create a private event or group instead.
It's also important to note that people who have roles on the business page will still be able to view it, regardless of whether it's unpublished or not.
Here's how to unpublish your Facebook business page using the Facebook website on your Mac or PC, or the Facebook app on your iPhone or Android device.
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Open Facebook in your preferred browser.
2. Click "Pages" on the left side panel of your homepage. If it's a page you view often, it may even pop up in the "Shortcuts" section. You may need to click the "See More" dropdown arrow if "Pages" doesn't appear in the first few options.
Click on "Pages" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider3. A list of pages you manage will appear on the next screen. Click the page you'd like to unpublish.
4. Once you're on your business page, a "Manage Page" panel will appear on the left side of your screen.
Scroll to the bottom and select "Settings."
5. The top option in the "General" tab will be "Page visibility." If the page is public, it will say "Page published." Click the blue "Edit" option to change this.
Click "Edit" next to "Page visibility." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider6.
Select "Page unpublished" and then click the blue "Save Changes" button.
7. This will open a pop-up asking you to share your reason for unpublishing the page. Select your reason from the list of options.
8. Click the blue "Next" button to continue.
Select a reason and click "Next." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider9.
Facebook will then ask you what you need to do in order to properly finish your page. Check any of the boxes that apply.
10. Click the blue "Unpublish" button.
Click "Unpublish." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider11. Facebook will confirm this decision. Click the blue "Close" button to return to your page settings.
Click "Close" to complete the process. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider How to make a Facebook business page private on your phone or tablet1.
Open the Facebook app on your mobile device.
2. Tap the three bars in the bottom-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Tap "Pages" below the orange flag icon.
Find and tap "Pages." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider4. Select the page you wish to unpublish from the list.
Find and select your page. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider5.
On your page, tap the gear icon in the upper right hand corner to open your settings.
6. Tap "General" at the top of the list.
Tap "General" at the top. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider7.
Scroll down until you find the "Page Visibility" section.
8. Tap "Unpublish" and you'll see the blue checkmark appear next to it instead.
Select "Unpublish" and a blue check mark will appear. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business Insider9. When you return to your page, you may see an option to "Publish Page." You can tap this blue button to make your page public again, or you can access the settings menu again at any time.
You can re-publish your page whenever you're ready. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Business InsiderMarissa Perino
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Facebook is still the biggest social media platform in the world. But while it's convenient for connecting up with friends or colleagues, it also holds more of your personal data than you realize.
If you don't have the right privacy settings, a lot of that personal data might be on public display.
While you can't control the advertisers and other outside companies that Facebook chooses to sell your information to, there are ways to ensure that other Facebook users can't see your information unless you want them too.
Here's how to make yourself private on Facebook.
Quick tip: If you don't want anyone to see your profile ever again, consider deactivating or deleting your Facebook account instead. It's a more extreme measure, but still the best way to pull your data off the site.
How to make your Facebook privateFacebook generally has four levels of privacy that you can set your account and posts to.
You can even exclude certain friends from seeing a post, too.If you want to make your Facebook as private as possible, you'll want to choose Only me whenever you can.
While some of Facebook's privacy tools are available in the mobile app, you'll need to open the Facebook website on a computer to find all of them.
To get to Facebook's Privacy menu:
1. Open the Facebook website and log into your account.
2. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner, and then select Settings & privacy in the menu that appears.
Head to your Privacy menu.
Stefan Ionescu/Insider 3. In the submenu, click Settings.
Go to your Facebook profile’s Settings page. Stefan Ionescu/Insider4. On the Settings page that opens, click Privacy in the left sidebar.
This will open the Privacy Settings and Tools page with more options:
Make your posts privateFirst, head to Your Activity section to change who's allowed to see your posts, posts you've been tagged in, and pages that you follow.
If you're concerned about people finding your profile and posts, the How People Find and Contact You tools can help keep you hidden.
Using the How You Get Message Requests section, you can limit who's allowed to message you. You can also choose to receive certain messages but filter them into their own folder, away from your inbox.
The options we talked about above control your entire Facebook account.
But whenever you post something, you can give it its own privacy settings. This means you can keep your profile private but make a single post public, and vice versa.
1. When you're creating a Facebook post, click the dropdown button under your name.
Tap this button to choose how private you want the post to be. Stefan Ionescu/Insider2. In the menu that opens, select how private or public you want the post to be.
Once you post, only the audience that you choose will be able to see it.
How to set up privacy check reminders on FacebookIt's easy to forget to update the Facebook settings mentioned above as your privacy needs change.
Luckily, through Privacy Checkup, you can set reminders that periodically alert you to review them.
1. Open the Facebook website and log into your account.
2. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner of the screen, and then select Settings & Privacy in the menu that appears.
3. In the submenu, click Privacy Checkup.
Click “Privacy Checkup.” Stefan Ionescu/Insider4. On the next screen, click the three horizontal dots and select Set up reminders.
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In the pop-up, select when you want Facebook to remind you to do a privacy check, and then click Save.
Jennifer Still contributed to a previous version of this article.
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Social networks know much more about the habits and lives of their users than their parents or even spouses. This is not a very pleasant fact, because all this information is available not only to advertisers, but also to your competitors and enemies. In the lives of many people, there are situations when it is necessary for some time to disappear from the public space and go into the shadows. Facebook does not have a built-in ability to delete all your posts and photos, but you can hide them from prying eyes for a while. Business Insider journalists described a sequence of actions, as a result of which you can hide Facebook information, and the user's previous activity will be hidden.
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In 2021, the editors of AIN.UA updated this text. 6 years after its publication, Facebook has simplified the procedure for hiding all information about yourself from Facebook and switching to "invisible mode". In addition, there was also a function to delete posts for a certain period. In the updated material, we tell you how to do it.
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nine0088Facebook is set by default to publish all your information. But what if you want to keep your profile private and have more control over what other Facebook users who aren't your friends can see on your profile? Can you change your default account settings?
If you've been wondering how to make your Facebook profile private, you've come to the right place. Keep reading to find out more. nine0003
If you want to make your Facebook profile private through a browser, you should do the following:
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When Facebook users check your profile, the first thing they see is your profile picture. Here's what you need to do to change who can see your profile picture:
Those who normally use Facebook on their phone and want to make their profile private should follow these steps:
If you have an iPhone and want to make your Facebook profile private, follow the steps above.
Those with an Android phone can follow the same steps as iPhone users to make their Facebook profile private. Check them out in the section above. nine0003
What if you want to hide the contents of your Facebook profile from non-friends? How to do it? Just follow these steps carefully:
We've covered the most common Facebook privacy concerns. However, if you'd like to learn more, check out some of the additional questions and answers in the next section. nine0003
If you want to make your Facebook account more private, a good place to start is by changing who can see your future posts. For example, you can hide your birthday, relationship status, friends list, restrict friend requests to certain people, keep private photos, etc.
To create a personal Facebook account, you just need to change your privacy settings.
