How To Hide Photos In Facebook

There are many reasons why you should make your photos private on Facebook. Aside from privacy concerns, the site is also teeming with unscrupulous scammers who want to take advantage of other people on the platform.

To deal with this issue, Facebook has customizable settings that allow you to restrict access to your photos or hide your photos from others. You can set some to be viewable only by your friends or make them completely private and only viewable to you.

Here's all you need to know about how to make photos private on Facebook.

How to Make Your Facebook Photos Private

To make photos private on Facebook, you can change the privacy settings of entire albums or individual photos.

How To Make Albums Private on Facebook

You can change the privacy of an entire album on Facebook to save time, rather than needing to make photos private one-by-one.

However, you should remember that you can only edit the audience of your own photos, not photos your friends uploaded.

To make a photo album private on Facebook, follow these steps:

From your profile, go to the Photos tab.
Then, find the photos you want to make private under Albums.
Go to the relevant album then click the three dots on the top right corner.
Then select Edit. You'll see a section that says "Friends" or "Public" with an icon showing two people. Click that to change the audience of your album.
From here you can control who can view the album. Select Only Me if do not want anyone else but you to see this album and make it private.
Then click Save (desktop) or Done (mobile).

If you don't want to make the photos completely private and still want to share them, just with a more limited audience, you can choose the audience options forFriends,Friends except, orSpecific friends.

If you want to show the album only to a group of friends on a certain list, select Show Lists and choose the list you want to share the album with.

How to Make Individual Photos Private

You can also change the privacy of individual photos on Facebook to make them private.

It's important to remember that you can only change the privacy settings of certain photos inside some groups or albums like Photos of You, Uploads, Profile Photo, Cover Photo, Timeline Photos, and Mobile Photos. Photos uploaded in batches along with others and as part of an album will follow the settings of the album.

To make a single photo on Facebook private, follow these steps:

Go to your profile and click the Photos tab. Then select the photo you want to make private. Click the three dots on the top right corner.
Select Edit post privacy.
Change the privacy setting to Only Me to hide the photo from your timeline and make it private.

You can also choose other audience options if you don't want to completely hide the photo and just want to make it less public.

Who Can See My Photos on Facebook? How to Check

If you want to double-check the privacy of your photos, you can view your public profile on Facebook. This is the profile that people who aren't your friends can see.

To do this, you'll use the "View As" feature on Facebook. You can access it on both the Facebook website and app.

To enter this mode, go to your profile. Select the three dots next to Edit Profile to open a dropdown menu, then selectView As.

This will show you all the previous posts that people outside your Facebook friends list and the platform can see. You can not change the privacy settings while you're on the View As mode but you can take note of the photos and the dates so you can find them later.

Once you know which photos you want to set to private, leave View As public mode by clicking on your thumbnail at the top right corner of your screen or clicking back.

The next time you post a photo, the privacy settings will automatically follow the last settings you set for a photo. So if you set a previous photo to Only Me, it will be the default audience setting of the next photo you upload.

To change the audience settings of the photo you are about to upload,click on the audience settings button. You will find it below your name.

From here you can change the post audience, then click Done to go back to your post. When you want to share the photo, selectPost.

Always check this button before you upload or post anything on Facebook. You should do this just to make sure you are not accidentally sharing photos or information with people outside the platform and outside your friends list.

Also, regularly check your profile in View As mode to see if you may have accidentally shared anything with the public.

Doing this check regularly will help make sure you catch any of these photos right away. Remember that the longer these photos are shared publicly on social media the higher the chances of a scammer getting a hold of it.

Protecting Yourself And Your Loved Ones

Reviewing your social media accounts and changing the audience settings of your photos to private is a good cyber hygiene practice. It will not only protect your data but will also protect the privacy of your loved ones who may be in the pictures you upload.

Always remember that there are unscrupulous hackers and scammers who are looking for ways to take advantage of other people.

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