How to hide likes and comments on facebook profile picture

How to hide likes and comments on facebook profile picture

Facebook is one of the popular social networking platforms which makes it easy to connects with friends and family easily. You can easily share pictures, videos, your thoughts with the mass audience. You can search anyone by name in the platform and you will get the list of users with that name and you can get its personal information like Profile Picture, total likes, loves, comments information, relationship status, name, profile photo location, date of birth info. likes and following information etc. So all your information is overexposed on the platform. But you can control what you have shared on Facebook.

Your Facebook friends can easily spam other profile pictures by giving unnecessary reactions to the profile picture, unnecessary comments in the profile picture. Also, anyone whose is not your friends can see your profile picture, download it, view comments and reaction. And from a security point of view, it seems to be more vulnerable. But the best thing is you can control all these with the help of Facebook privacy settings.

How to hide likes and comments on facebook profile picture
fig. Mutual friends can comment, share, react, download, tag your photo.

By default Facebook profile pictures, profile post comments, and reactions are public. You can change it so that only your friend or just you can see those profile picture comments and like them. This is the process of making your profile private. So, without wasting time let's make your profile private so that no one can comment and like your profile picture.

How to hide likes and comments on facebook profile picture

  • You can hide your likes on Facebook by setting your likes to private, without having to unlike the person, brand, or product you liked.
  • You can also customize the privacy of your likes across myriad categories, keeping some public, sharing others only with friends, and even allowing or blocking specific people from seeing them.
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People can collect a lot of private and personal information about you based on your Facebook Likes, from the type of music you like to the politicians you support. 

As a result, it is easy to feel overexposed on the platform. Luckily, you can easily hide your likes on Facebook to limit the amount of information shared with other users in order to reclaim a bit of your privacy. Here's how to do it.

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How to hide your likes on Facebook

1. Log into your Facebook account and navigate to your personal page.

2. On the toolbar under your cover photo, hover over "More" and then click "Likes" from the dropdown menu.

3. Click the pencil icon, then select "Edit the Privacy of Your Likes."

You can sort through your Likes by clicking on categories at the top of the list to help you determine which you might wish to hide. Steven John/Business Insider

4. For any category in which you wish to hide your Likes, click the arrow at the right side of the tab and select "Only me" on the dropdown menu. Now, only you can see your Likes in that particular category. 

The "Custom" option allows you to prohibit or permit people or lists from viewing your Likes. Steven John/Business Insider

5. You can also customize your privacy settings for a specific category by selecting "Custom Privacy" on the dropdown menu. You can then change your setting to share or don't share your likes with a specific person or list of people. 

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How do I hide my profile picture likes and comments?

To turn off likes on your Facebook profile picture, you need to change its privacy settings from “Public” to “Only Me”. Alternatively, you can uncheck the “Share your update to News Feed” option before changing your profile picture.