How can you lock your Facebook profile
Facebook is one of the social media sites that provide its users a number of privacy options, including the power to lock your Facebook profile. Locking a user's profile shows only a limited view of the profile to people who aren’t on the buddies list on Facebook. A locked profile will show photos and posts on the timeline, display picture, stories, and new posts only to people that are within the friends list. Also, their ‘Public' posts won't be public anymore and only visible to their friends.
In order to lock your Facebook profile, you can simply do it from the mobile app or from your browser; however, one should note that the desktop version of Facebook doesn't have the choice to lock your profile, but there are various other options to do it. Also, this feature is restricted to the Android app. There are certain ways on how you'll lock your Facebook profile.
Locking your Facebook profile via mobile app
Here’s how you can lock your Facebook profile via the Android mobile app-
1. Open the Facebook app on your mobile phone and tap on your profile.
2. Once you open your profile, tap the three-dot menu icon next to ‘Add to Story'.
3. Now, the third step is to tap Lock Profile option.
4. The next page will offer you a quick guide on how it works with a choice to Lock Your Profile at rock bottom.
5. Once you are done with everything, you will see a pop-up that says ‘You Have Locked Your Profile', tap on OK.
How do you Lock Facebook profile via Desktop
However, there’s no direct way to lock you Facebook profile using the web browser. But there is another way that you can use if you do not have access to your mobile application-
1. Enter the https://www.facebook.com/ on your desktop browser.
2. 2nd step is to click on your profile icon within the URL, replace ‘www' with ‘m' in order that the URL now reads ‘m.facebook.com/yourprofilename'
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3. This step will take you to a mobile version of Facebook on your desktop browser and then you will see a 3 dot menu next to the Edit Profile option
4. In the three dot menu, you will see the Lock Profile option, click on it.
5. Just like the Android version, the same way this next page will show you ways how locking works, with a choice to Lock Your Profile at rock bottom. Justc lick on it.
6. Tada!!! Your Facebook profile is now locked.
iOS users can use the desktop to make lock their profiles or they can simply borrow an Android device or can ask someone of their friends who have Android mobile phones and follow the aforementioned steps.
If you wish to unlock your Facebook profile again, there are similar steps on both the mobile app and desktop. In place of the Lock Profile option, you'll now see an Unlock Profile option, tap on it and select Unlock on subsequent screen. You’ll see a quick on how unlocking your profile works and a choice to Unlock Your Profile at rock bottom, click on it and your profile are going to be unlocked.
Conclusion
Facebook is a superb social media for global communication. Since the world is getting more concerned about data privacy (like your profile picturedisplay picture, stories, and new posts) it's time to guard your Facebook accounts permanently. Locking your profile secures your personal data from the hackers.
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