Do the likes and comments on your Facebook posts make you self-conscious or distracting? Or do you want to declutter your news feed to focus on family and friends updates? Whatever the reason, in this article we will show you how to hide likes on Facebook and improve your experience on the platform.
In this article, we will provide step-by-step instructions on how to do it. But before we go through the steps, it is quite important to understand why you might need or want to hide Facebook likes. Continue reading.
What happens when you hide likes on Facebook posts
Hiding Facebook likes has its benefits. This can reduce social comparisons, declutter your news feed, and at the same time protect your privacy. However, it’s important to know that hiding likes won’t eliminate their impact on your Facebook experience. That’s because you can still see reactions or likes appearing on Stories and Facebook Marketplace posts.
Also, although this will hide the number of likes from your friends, you will still be able to see them. So you can still compare with your friends’ posts. You cannot hide the number of likes on an individual post. Enabling this setting will hide likes for all your posts.
That way, let’s start with the steps.
How To Hide Likes On Facebook Using A Web Browser
Hiding Facebook likes is a several-step process that you can do through the web or from Facebook’s mobile app. The steps are as simple as they can be. With that, let’s start with the steps.
Step 1: Open Facebook on any browser, log in and click the V icon (arrow) in the upper right corner.
Step 2: Go to ‘Settings & privacy’ from the drop-down menu.
Step 3: Now, click on Settings.
Step 4: In Settings, navigate to Privacy in the left pane.
Step 5: Go to the React option.
Step 5: Under ‘Hide the number of emotions’, turn on the switch for ‘On your post’.
Tip: To hide the number of likes on posts from other posts, turn on the toggle for ‘On posts from others’.
With this setting, Facebook will actively hide all other people’s likes and your posts. Well, if you don’t use a computer and want to go through the steps using Facebook’s mobile app, keep reading.
How to hide Facebook likes on Android or iOS
Before continuing with the steps, make sure you have an updated version of the Facebook app on your device. Follow the steps below.
Note: These steps are common to both Android and iOS. For demonstration, we are using an Android device. However, you can follow the same steps on your iPhone or iPad.
Step 1: Open the Facebook app on your device and tap your profile picture.
Step 2: Scroll down and tap on ‘Settings & privacy’ to expand.
Step 3: Now, tap on Settings. In the next screen, under Profiles, tap Profile Settings.
Step 4: Scroll down below Feed Settings and tap Reaction Options.
Step 5: Now, under ‘Hide the number of emotions’, enable the ‘On your post’ option.
Note: You can turn on the toggle for ‘Enable posts from others’ if you don’t want to see the total reaction count for posts shared by others to News Feed, Pages or groups.
Your go. You have successfully disabled Facebook likes through the mobile app. You can hide likes for specific categories of pages on Facebook if you want more. Continue reading.
How to hide pages you’ve liked on Facebook
By default, your page likes are public, which means people can see when you like them. If you want to make your profile private by completely hiding page likes, you can. Follow the steps mentioned below.
Note: The web version of Facebook only allows you to hide page categories, not individual likes. Also, you can’t hide page likes using the mobile app.
Step 1: Open Facebook on your favorite web browser and click on your profile picture in the top right.
Step 2: Click on your Profile.
Step 3: In your profile section, go to more and from the drop-down menu click Like.
Step 4: Now click on the three-dot icon and select the ‘Edit your likes’ privacy’ option from the context menu.
Step 5: In the ‘Edit Like Privacy’ pop-up, click the globe icon next to the Page category whose visibility settings you want to change.
Step 6: Select Only Me to hide from everyone and click save.
Note: You also have other options to choose from other than Public, such as Friends, Friends Except Acquaintance, and Custom.
Your go. From now on, no one will be able to see your Page likes anymore. Please note if you have multiple categories of Pages that you want to make private, you will have to repeat the steps above. If you have any questions, check out the FAQ section below.
FAQ about hiding likes on Facebook
1. Can individual users see likes?
Private Facebook users can see likes on their own posts and posts from other users with whom they are friends. When an individual user likes a post, their name will appear as a ‘like’ to their friends unless they choose to remain anonymous.
2. What happens when you hide comments on FB?
Whenever you hide a comment on Facebook, that comment will no longer be visible to you or other users viewing the post, but the comment will not be deleted. So the person who commented can still view it and interact with it.
Clear your mental space
You can focus on what’s important to you by hiding likes and comments to avoid getting lost. By following the steps mentioned in the article, you can easily hide Facebook likes and customize the experience according to your preferences. You may also want to see how to deactivate or permanently delete a Facebook account.
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