How to Lock Facebook Profile in Android or iPhone or Web Browser, Unlock Facebook Profile on Android or iOS device, How to Lock Your Facebook Profile –
Facebook is one of the popular and widely used social media platforms. It has millions of active users around the world.
Many users want to lock their profile to protect their account or information from stalkers or spam users that download profile pictures and posts and creates fake accounts and share their information with others.
So, if you are also one of those who want to lock your Facebook profile, you just need to read the article till the end as we have listed the steps to do so.
How to Lock Your Facebook Profile?
Facebook introduced a safety feature to lock your profile. Once enabled, users you are not your friends will not able to see your profile.
You can easily lock your profile from the Facebook mobile application or from a web browser on your PC.
On Facebook App
The steps to lock your profile on the Facebook application are very easy, here’s how you can do it.
- Open the Facebook App on your Android or iPhone device.
- Log in to your account if you have not already.
- Click on the three lines (or hamburger menu) next to the notifications icon.
- Navigate to Settings.
- Under Audience and Visibility, you will see Profile Locking, tap on it.
- Facebook will now have a dedicated page for how Profile Locking works, click on the Lock Your Profile at the bottom.
- Finally, click on Ok in the pop-up window.
Done, you have successfully locked your Facebook Profile on the mobile app. Once locked, you will see an unlock icon under the Profile Locking option, tap on it and choose to Unlock your profile to unlock it.
On PC
If you are using Facebook on your PC using a web browser, you can also lock your profile. Follow the below steps to do so.
- Open a web browser and visit facebook.com on your PC.
- Click on your profile picture with your name on the top-right side.
- On your profile, click on the three-dots icon and choose Lock Profile.
- It will open a page on how the Profile Locking works, tap Lock Your Profile to lock it.
- Tap OK on the pop-up screen.
Done, you have successfully locked your profile using a web browser on your PC. If you want to unlock it, you can always do it using the same steps. To do so, click on the three dots on your profile and choose Unlock Profile, then tap on the unlock icon and click Unlock Your Profile to unlock it.
Conclusion: Lock Your Facebook Profile
So, these are the ways by which you can lock your Facebook Profile. We hope the article helped you in locking and unlocking your profile from the Facebook mobile app or from the web browser.
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To unlock your Facebook profile from a web browser on your PC, visit facebook.com >> Go to your profile >> Tap on the three-dots icon >> Choose Unlock Profile >> Tap on the unlock icon >> Finally, tap on Unlock Your Profile.
When you lock your profile, only your friends will be able to see your feature photos, past profile pictures, and past cover photos. However, your current profile picture and cover photo will be visible to everyone but they can’t open them. Also, only your friends will be able to tag, comment, or like your profile or cover photo.
Once you lock your profile, all the posts, photos, albums, and stories will be visible only to your friends. Also, you can not make Publick posts, photos, albums, and stories from your profile.
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