Control who can see what's on your Facebook profile
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Here's an overview of who can see what's on your profile and tools that you can use to control what you share on your profile.
Tools:
- To edit things such as places you've lived or your family and relationships, click About below your cover photo, then click
next to the info you'd like to change and click Edit. Use the audience selector next to this info to choose who you're sharing it with.
- As you edit your info, you can control who sees what by using the audience selector.
- Before photos, posts and app activities that you're tagged in appear on your timeline, you can approve or dismiss them by turning on timeline review. Bear in mind that you can still be tagged, and the tagged content (e.g. photo, post) is shared with the audience that the person who posted it selected other places on Facebook (e.g. Feed and search).
- Set an audience for who can see posts that you've been tagged in on your profile.
- To see what your profile looks like to other people, use the View As tool.
- You can also view and adjust your privacy settings:
- Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook.
- Select Settings and privacy, then click Settings.
- Click Privacy in the left column.
Bear in mind that:
- Anyone can see your public information, which includes your name, profile picture, cover photo, gender, username, user ID (account number) and networks (learn why).
- Only you and your friends can post to your profile. When you post something, you can control who sees it by using the audience selector. When other people post on your timeline, you can control who sees it by choosing the audience of the Who can see what others post on your profile? setting.
