How do you delete a facebook page forever
How to Delete or Unpublish a Facebook Page
- You can delete your Facebook page from the Facebook website, mobile app, or Business Manager.
- When you delete a Facebook page, it's still visible for 14 days, and you can reactivate it.
- If you want your Facebook page to be invisible to other users, you'll need to unpublish it.
Ready to shutter your side gig, or eliminate your company's Facebook page? It's easy to delete your page on the Facebook website, Facebook mobile app, or Facebook Business Manager website.
You can also unpublish your page if you want to make it unviewable to other users until you're ready to re-publish it.
Note: In order to delete or unpublish, you must be an admin on the Facebook page.
Here's everything you need to know about deleting or unpublishing a Facebook page.
When you delete a Facebook page, it will remain visible to the public during the 14-day deletion period. If you want it to be invisible to the public, you will need to unpublish it before deleting it.
On the Facebook website:1. Go to the Facebook website and log in to your account.
2. From the Facebook homepage, click Pages in the sidebar menu on the left.
Click "Pages" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider3. Under Pages you manage, click on the page you want to delete.
If a pop-up asks you to connect your page to WhatsApp, just exit out of it.
4. In the sidebar menu on the left, scroll down and select Settings at the very bottom of the list.
Click "Settings" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider5.
On the General tab of the Settings page, scroll all the way to the bottom and select Remove Page.
6. Click the blue hyperlink Delete [your page name] and in the pop-up, click Delete Page.
After clicking the hyperlink, click "Delete Page" in the pop-up. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider7.
Another pop-up will appear notifying you that your page has "entered deletion mode" and that you can cancel the deletion within 14 days. Click OK.
8. To reactivate your page within the 14-day window, click the General tab at the top of the Page settings menu. A banner will appear at the top of the General tab notifying you that your page is set to be deleted — click Cancel Deletion and hit Confirm in the pop-up.
Click "Cancel Deletion" in the banner. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider On the Facebook Business Manager website:1.
Go to the Facebook Business Manager website and log in to your account.
2. In the sidebar menu on the left, click Settings, toward the bottom of the list.
Click "Settings" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider3. On the Settings page, click More business settings.
Click "More business settings" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider4.
Under Accounts, click Pages.
5. Click on the Page you want to delete, and select "Remove" in the top-right corner.
Click "Remove" in the top-right. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider6.
Facebook will tell you that you've got 14 days to cancel the deletion process. If you want to continue with deleting your page, click Delete Page.
7. After 14 days you'll be asked to confirm that you want to delete your Facebook page. During this time, you can go back to Page Options > Delete Page and select Confirm to stop your page from being deleted. If you want your Facebook page to be invisible during the 14 days, then follow the instructions below to unpublish it.
On the Facebook mobile app:1. Open the Facebook app on your Android or iOS device.
2. Tap the icon of three horizontal lines in the bottom-right corner and select Pages from the menu.
Tap "Pages" in the settings menu.
Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider 3. Under Pages You Manage, click the page you want to delete.
4. Tap the gear-shaped Settings icon in the top-right corner.
Tap the settings icon. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider5. Tap General at the top of the Settings page and scroll down to the Remove Page section.
6. Tap the blue hyperlink Delete [your page name] and in the pop-up, select Delete Page.
Tap on the delete page hyperlink. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider7. The next screen will notify you that your page has "entered deletion mode" and that you can cancel the deletion within 14 days. Tap OK.
8. To reactivate your page within the 14-day window, go back to the General tab of the Settings menu. Scroll down until you see a banner notifying you that your page is set to be deleted — tap Cancel Deletion and hit Confirm on the next screen.
Instead of deleting your page entirely, you can make it invisible to other Facebook users until you're ready to publish it.
On the Facebook website:1. Go to the Facebook website and log in to your account.
2. From the Facebook homepage, click Pages in the sidebar menu on the left.
Click "Pages" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider3.
Under Pages you manage, click on the page you want to delete. If a pop-up asks you to connect your page to WhatsApp, just exit out of it.
4. In the sidebar menu on the left, scroll down and select Settings at the very bottom of the list.
Click "Settings" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider5.
On the General tab of the Settings page, click Page visibility at the very top.
6. Click the circle button next to Page unpublished and hit Save Changes.
Click "Page unpublished" and hit "Save Changes." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider7.
In the Unpublish Page? pop-up, select a reason for unpublishing and hit Next.
8. Then, click an option under What do you need to finish your Page? and click Unpublish.
On the Facebook Business Manager website:1. Go to the Facebook Business Manager website and log in to your account.
2. In the sidebar menu on the left, click Settings, toward the bottom of the list.
Click "Settings" on the left.
Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider 3. On the Settings page, click More business settings.
Click "More business settings" on the left. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider4. Under Accounts, click Pages.
Click "Pages" on the left.
Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider 5. Click on the page you want to delete and click View Page in the top-right corner.
Go to "View Page." Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider6. On your page, click Settings on the right side of the menu bar at the top of the page, in between Edit Page Info and Help. Don't click the gear-shaped settings icon in the very top-right corner as that will take you back to business settings.
7. On the General tab, click Page visibility, located toward the top of the list.
Click "Page visibility" at the top. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider8. Click the circle button next to Page unpublished and hit Save Changes.
9. In the Unpublish Page? pop-up, select a reason for unpublishing and hit Next.
10. Then, click an option under What do you need to finish your Page? and click Unpublish.
On the Facebook mobile app:1. Open the Facebook app on your Android or iOS device.
2. Tap the icon of three horizontal lines in the bottom-right corner and select Pages from the menu.
Tap "Pages" in the settings menu.
Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider 3. Tap the page you want to unpublish.
4. Hit the gear-shaped Settings icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
Tap the settings icon. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider5. Tap the General tab and scroll down to the Page Visibility section.
6. Select Unpublish under Page Visibility.
A blue check mark will appear and your page should now be invisible to the public.
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Christine Kopaczewski is a Philadelphia-based freelance lifestyle writer. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her Scottish Terrier puppy or exploring the east coast with her British husband. Her previous work has been published by Good Housekeeping, PureWow, and Yahoo.
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How to Delete or Remove a Facebook Business Page
- You can delete a Facebook business page permanently in a few quick steps.
- Unpublishing your page may be a better option when you just want to remove it from public view.
- Facebook page administrators are the only users allowed to delete or unpublish a page.
Creating a Facebook business page is a fairly quick process. Removing or deleting a business page is quick, too.
There are two ways to "remove" a Facebook business page from public view. You can delete a page (remove it forever) or change the page's status to "unpublished."
Quick tip: You must be a page administrator to change the visibility of a page or to delete it.
How to delete a Facebook business page
Deleting a page is permanent. You will receive no email notice from Facebook confirming your deletion. Your page will just disappear on its scheduled date. Be sure you're ready to remove it before you begin.
1. Switch to your Facebook page's profile and click this link to get to the Settings & Privacy screen.
2. Click the View button beside Deactivation and deletion.
3. Click Delete Page and then Continue and follow the prompt.
Click Delete Page and Continue. Kyle Wilson/InsiderYour page is now scheduled for deletion.
It will be deleted after 14 days. You can cancel a deletion by going to your page and clicking Cancel deletion at the top of the page. The page will no longer be recoverable once 14 days have passed.
How to unpublish a Facebook business page
Unpublishing a page removes it from public view. This might be useful when you want to update or make a change to your Facebook business page. It can be reactivated at any time.
1. Switch to your Facebook page's profile and click this link to get to the Settings & Privacy screen.
2. Click the View button beside Deactivation and deletion.
Click View. Kyle Wilson/Insider3.
Choose Deactivate Page and select Continue and follow the prompt.
4. You'll have to answer a few questions about why you want to unpublish the page, and then click Deactivate.
Fill in the form and click Deactivate. Kyle Wilson/InsiderQuick tip: Reactivating can be done by clicking this link and choosing Reactivate next to the page that you wish to reactivate.
How to remove a page from your Business Manager
Removing a page from Business Manager is for situations when you no longer want to manage the business page but also don't want to delete it. You must be an admin of the page in order to do this.
1. Go to Business Settings and select the business account that you want to manage.
2. Locate the page that you wish to remove in the list of pages and click on the Trash can icon to remove it.
Click the trash can icon. Kyle Wilson/InsiderKyle Wilson
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How to permanently delete a Facebook account?
If you delete or deactivate your account, all of its profiles will be deleted or deactivated along with it. Learn more about how to delete or deactivate an individual profile.
What happens if you delete your Facebook account permanently?
You will not be able to reactivate your account.
Your profile, photos, posts, videos and other content will be permanently deleted.
You will no longer be able to use Facebook Messenger.
You won't be able to use Facebook Login with other apps and websites, such as Spotify and Pinterest.
To recover your accounts, you may need to contact support for those apps and websites.
Some information, such as messages you send to your friends, may still be available even after you delete your account. Copies of the messages you send are stored in your friends' inbox.
If you use a Facebook account to sign in to your Oculus device, deleting your Oculus device will also delete information related to the Oculus platform, including your in-app purchases and achievements. In addition, you will no longer be able to return apps and will lose all Oculus store coupons.
What if I want to stop using Facebook for a while without deleting all my content?
If you want to take a break from Facebook, you can temporarily deactivate your account. However:
People will not be able to see or open your Facebook profile.
Your photos, posts and videos will not be deleted.
You will not lose your ability to use Facebook Messenger. In conversations, your profile photo will be visible, and people who want to start a conversation with you will be able to find you by name.
Your Facebook friends will still be able to send you messages.
You can use the Facebook Login feature in other apps such as Spotify, Pinterest and Facebook Games.
You will not be able to use your Facebook account to access Oculus Products and view information related to the Oculus platform.
You can return to Facebook at any time.
Learn more about how to temporarily deactivate an account.
To permanently delete an account:
Log in to Facebook from a computer.
Click on your profile picture in the top right corner of the Facebook window.
Select Settings & Privacy and then Settings.
Click Your information on Facebook.
Click Deactivate and delete.
Select Delete Account and click Continue with Delete Account.
Click Remove account, enter your password, and select Continue.
Can I cancel the account deletion?
You can restore your account within 30 days after deletion. After that, it and all information associated with it will be deleted without the possibility of recovery.
It may take up to 90 days for your content to be completely removed. While we delete this information, it will not be available to anyone on Facebook.
After this period, a copy of your information may be stored in backup storage, which we use to recover data lost in the event of a natural disaster, software error, etc. We may also retain your information to resolve legal issues, in case of violation of the terms use or for purposes intended to prevent harm. Learn more about the Privacy Policy.
To undo account deletion:
Log in to your Facebook account within 30 days of deletion.
Click Cancel Delete.
How to permanently delete a Facebook account? Instructions with screenshots
The difference between deletion and deactivation
Deactivation acts as a temporary account freeze. For example, you decided to go to the mountains and indulge in a digital detox without Facebook and constant notifications, but you know for sure that in a couple of months you will return and you will need an account with all contacts and messages.
By the way, about messages - when you delete your Facebook profile, you will also delete the link to Messenger, which will lead to the loss of all dialogs and data in correspondence. Therefore, if an account on FB is no longer needed, but private messages are a different matter, then you can use the account deactivation option instead of deleting it.
Read related: How to delete old entries from Facebook Timeline
How to deactivate a Facebook account
From the web version menu) and select "Settings", or simply follow this link.
Click "Edit" on the "Account Management" block
And click "Deactivate Account" at the very bottom of this settings block.
To prevent your account from being deactivated by a colleague who doesn't really like you, but left his work computer on, Facebook will ask you to enter the current account password, and only after that the account will be deactivated. Messenger will keep its performance and history of correspondence, but when you again want to share your thoughts, mood or tell Mark what's new, you can always activate your account again, completely restoring all the data.
From the mobile app
Tap the hamburger menu on the bottom bar of the app, then Settings & Privacy > Settings.
Next, you need the "Account Management" menu item. By the way, on the current screen, you can use the application to download the archive of the data you downloaded.
And in "Account Management" - the section "Deactivation and deletion".
After that, it remains only to finally decide on the decision about deactivation or removal by selecting the appropriate item.
How to delete an entire Facebook account
If you have definitely decided that you will no longer need it, as well as Messenger (leave - so leave), then instead of deactivating your account, which still leaves the possibility of rolling everything back, it would be preferable for you to delete the entire account, without the possibility of recovery.
Read related: How to permanently delete accounts from Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
From the web version
In the same way as when deactivating, go to the general Facebook settings, but from the "General" tab go to "Your information on Facebook". Here you can also request an archive of all information for downloading to your computer, if you definitely don’t feel sorry for the account, but all those hundreds of photos, records, notes and comments are a pity. The social network will create an archive of all this data for you, which can be downloaded before deleting your account.
On the deletion page, you will once again be asked to deactivate your account instead of deleting it, just in case, if you need Messenger, and also to download the archive with the information you downloaded.
You can then unzip the data file and make sure that everything is actually saved - from your saved objects and links and account information to all photos (taking into account the nesting hierarchy of your albums) and Likes and list friends at the time of account deletion.
If you have thought it all over and decided to permanently delete your account, all that remains is to press the appropriate button and then enter the account password for confirmation.
If you suddenly change your mind about deleting after deleting (yes, this also happens), then you will have 30 days to restore your account, you just need to log into it and click "Cancel deletion" on the page that appears after logging in .
Well, if within a month after the deletion you have not decided to restore your account, then you will not be able to do it after.
From the phone
All steps are similar to account deactivation, except for the final one - you just need to select "Account deletion" instead of "Account deactivation".
This is about deleting a profile, that is, a personal page. In addition, sometimes it becomes necessary to delete the company page.
How to delete a business page on Facebook
From the web version
First of all, you need to go to the page that you administer and click on the "Settings" menu.
To delete a page, you need the lowest item in the general settings block.
When you click "Delete Page", Facebook will warn you that you have 2 weeks to restore it if you change your mind.
From the app
Here's how to do it from your phone using the standard Facebook app.
By clicking on the hamburger menu at the very top of the screen, a list of pages that you administer will appear. Select the one you want, and then tap on the menu hidden behind the three dots.
Then you need to follow this path through the screens:
"Edit page" - "Settings" - "General" - "Delete page". And confirm your choice.
The Facebook interface changes quite often (although not so noticeably), so if you decide to use our instructions, but something doesn’t match your screenshots or the links above, use the permalink to the general Facebook help on deleting and deactivating your account.
