Friday, December 16, 2011
How to delete past posts on Facebook
With the new Facebook Timeline comes added features such as your friends ability to see all your past activity, the stuff you might have hidden for so long. Another problem with the new Facebook Timeline is that if you have previous chosen to hide all 'Like' activities. That has been removed and all you 'Like' activity on Facebook shows up on your Timeline. This is a boon for websites like ours. Since the more likes we get the more popular we are going to become. Anyways back to the topic. Now if you have something you can see on your Timeline that you do not want to be seeing there. You can get rid of it immediately and not have to worry about it again.
How to hide or remove any post from your timeline - maybe an embarrassing photo, video or status update
How to hide or remove any post from your timeline - maybe an embarrassing photo, video or status update
1. Login to Facebook
2. Click on your name which should bring-up your Facebook Timeline.
3. Hover over the right-hand corner of any post, update, image, video and you should get a pencil menu. This menu has the title ' Edit or Remove'.
4. Clicking on it brings-up a couple of options. Depending on what type of post you want to get rid of. But you should have the options to either unlike, hide, and delete. Choose the one that best suits you, click on it and confirm.
5. You're done.
Note: There is now a simpler way to do this. If you want to limit the audience of all your past posts. Please click on this link. We have written this as a separate post and will help you hide all past activities and posts on Facebook with just a few clicks.
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2. Click on your name which should bring-up your Facebook Timeline.
3. Hover over the right-hand corner of any post, update, image, video and you should get a pencil menu. This menu has the title ' Edit or Remove'.
4. Clicking on it brings-up a couple of options. Depending on what type of post you want to get rid of. But you should have the options to either unlike, hide, and delete. Choose the one that best suits you, click on it and confirm.
5. You're done.
Note: There is now a simpler way to do this. If you want to limit the audience of all your past posts. Please click on this link. We have written this as a separate post and will help you hide all past activities and posts on Facebook with just a few clicks.
Please leave a comment to continue this discussion
when i try to do this on certain photos, i dnt qet that option. i qet NONE.
ReplyDeleteActually you should be able to remove or delete anything from your timeline. Please explain a little more about the photos, are you trying to delete them or just remove them from your Timeline?
ReplyDeleteProblem is i want to delete all of my posts of 2008.. and i dont want to do this process for every single one of them since it will take too much time..
ReplyDeleteHaven't been able to solve the ability to delete an entire year. Will keep experimenting and post it here, if i discover how to remove or delete an entire year. In fact this was one of the first things i tried on the new Timeline, but was not able to find any option for that. For now it seems every post on Timeline needs to be reviewed and if anything needs to be deleted, it must be done one at a time.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to delete a picture someone posted on my timeline. My options are CHANGE DATE and REMOVE FROM TIMELINE. How do I remove post so it does not show up on newsfeed?
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that you can remove it from your timeline and 'Remove from your Newsfeed'. Since it was something that was posted by someone else. This way it does not show up on your Timeline or Newsfeed.
ReplyDeleteThere is an option to partially change the privacy of all your old posts to "Friends only" with just one click. Go to Privacy settings (Home button), and to the option "Limit the Audience for past Posts".and click "Manage past posts Visibility". This will make all your past posts visible to friends only.
ReplyDeleteI know that, thing is i dont want especially my friends to see them
ReplyDeleteYou are right Xoxoqueeny.... many thanks for the tip..
ReplyDeleteno but the only options are, are to hide, pictures that people put on your wall cant seem to be deleted ://
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that this happens because the pictures were posted by a friend. We can delete only pictures we post.
ReplyDeletepretty simple get an app from google for android mobile called exfoliate and you can delete whatever you want from certain years :D
ReplyDeleteye ive heard of it the only problem is that i have an iphone!
ReplyDeleteIm trying to remove my entire timeline.its too confusing!how can i do that?
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY solution out there to Remove or Delete the Facebook Timeline:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.vectorash.ro/how-to-disable-or-remove-facebook-timeline/
The Timeline is here to stay and it is your new fb profile.
ReplyDeleteI accidently posted something on someone else's timeline that I don't want her to see. How dO i delete it?
ReplyDeleteIs there anyway to delete a past year's worth of posts? Say, 2008 or something.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way to do that on fb right now.
ReplyDeleteIt is very simple. Go to your friend's Timeline. Find your post and click the [X] mark found on the top right hand corner of the post. You will be asked if you want to delete this post. Click on 'Ok' and you're done.
ReplyDeletehow can i automatically hide everything from a whole year? like 2008? not delete, just hide. so nobody but me can see that activity.
ReplyDeleteThere is no option to bulk hide. You can go to your activity log and hide posts from there, one at a time. This is a pain area as many people are discovering.
ReplyDeleteThe only way I've found is this
ReplyDeletehttp://www.doncaprio.com/2011/12/hiding-or-removing-old-wall-posts-from-facebook-timeline-automatically.html Basically it's a how to guide for how to run a macro in firefox to go through and hide them fore you.
yes we can hide some of them but not comments, there's only delete option, can u pls tell me how to hide comments THANKS
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to delete single comments from those who are no longer my friend instead of deleting/hiding the entire box of birthday comments? If there isn't a way, that's way annoying. These few people are no longer friends of mine...I've removed them from my friends list and they have removed me. I want a way to take their comments off too. Please help?
ReplyDeletehmm.. must be a glitch.. the {X} is there but when I click it, it says none.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem. When i click (X) only one option is there and that is 'none' . Please find a solution soon otherwise i'll be screwed !
ReplyDeleteHave you tried removing these posts through the activity log?
ReplyDeletea friend of mine posted something on my wall ...a photo ...I tried to hide it from timeline but unsuccessfully - at the beginning I hide it from timeline but it didn't dissapear from my wall so I tried again and again. I blocked that friend but nothing seemed to work ...Now, instead of ,,change date,, ,,delete post,, ,,report,, etc it shows NONE ?!?!?!? What does it mean ? And it is still on my wall !!! PLS help ...how can I delete it or hide it from my wall ? :(
ReplyDeleteI did that . I deleted the post but the post is still there. Now when I go back to edit, it shows none.
ReplyDeleteBy Wall I am presuming you mean the news feed. To delete from news feed, click the down arrow beside the globe icon located on the top right-hand corner of your post and click delete post. Please let me know if this helps. Alternately you could also use the option 'make this visible only to me'.
ReplyDeleteWait for sometime and refresh the page it should go away. This is a bug and fb needs to fix it. it eventually goes away but takes a little time. Most probably coming from a stored copy of your page n your cache folders.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend whom i love but others dont care for as their comments can be somewhat offensive. I don't want to delete their comments but I would like a way to indivdually hide such comments from others - yet still be visible to the commenter and myself. There used to be a way I'm told with the old layout - but with the timeline I'm having trouble finding a way to hide comments Not delete or hide the entire stream from the timeline. any tips?
ReplyDeleteBefore updating your status when you click n the status box. You get the globe icon with public written beside it, Click that down arrow and choose custom. From there use the option 'Make this post visible only to' and choose yourself and your friend. This should work. Do let me know if it helps.
ReplyDeletei clicked hide from timeline to test it. now i cant get it back lol. undo option hath disappered :0
ReplyDeleteHow do i get the hiden status back??
ReplyDeleteGo to your 'Activity Log' and you should find it there.
ReplyDeletehow can i undo a delete post? i just wanted to remove that from my profile and i didn't know that i should check the "hide from timeline" button and i checked the "delete post" and know every post i make it doesn't appear and i can't play my game.
ReplyDeleteis there anyway to bring back a post to your timeline that you hide from your timeline??
ReplyDeleteFind it in your activity log and then click the circle icon next to the globe icon and choose 'Allowed on Timeline'.
ReplyDeleteSearch for it in 'Activity Log' and then allow on Timeline. If your game is not posting go to app settings in your 'Privacy Settings' click on apps and websites. Click on the game you and then on the world icon set the App Activity settings to post. Hope this helps.
ReplyDeletecan I for example hide the photo from my timeline, but keep it in my photos?
ReplyDeleteHow to delete the entire past years like 2009 or 2010 wall posts.I don't want any past years shown on my wall.I want them deleted.
ReplyDeleteSure, you may hide photos from the Timeline and photos are still available in your photo albums.
ReplyDeleteno they are not
ReplyDeletea friend tagged me,and I hide it from my timeline but it disappeared from my photos too
I did a bit of testing and changed my cover image a couple of times. Each time you change it, it also gets posted to Timeline. I then hid it each time from Timeline. I still have all my photos in their albums. You might have come across a bug.
ReplyDeleteafter you remove it from timeline can you bring it back?
ReplyDeleteFind the post on your Activity Log and click on the stop sign icon and choose 'Allowed on Timeline', hope that helps.
ReplyDeletetry to do that with photos that others tagged you in,it will disappear
ReplyDeleteOn my TIMELINE, I had the app activity from Cafe World, it would say "via Cafe World" and then display all my posts via that game. However one day I hovered over the box and clicked the pencil and accidentally selected "Stop Publishing Acitivity from Cafe World" and now the box is gone from my TIMELINE. I can see it only in my activity log and newsfeed. When I go to my activity log, It is already set to 'allow on timeline'. Can you please help me. I've already tried removing the app and installing it again. I've played around the settings of the actual app as well as in my privacy settings> app and websites and then clicked on the actual app settings.
ReplyDeleteok this is fucking stupid my friend posted somethign on my wall and it wont let me delete it fuck facebook its shit
ReplyDeleteI am using a program called 'clean my wall' to wipe years of posts off my wall. Not doing the timeline thing. Total invasion of privacy. Facebook will be nothing more than a chat room now for me. It's sad.
ReplyDeleteSince you've tried everything may I suggest something bold. Get rid of the app, deactivate your fb account and reactivate it after a few days and then re-install the app. This might work.
ReplyDeleteDid a post on difference between hide and delete on Timeline. You might have a point actually.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sociolatte.com/2011/12/facebook-timeline-difference-between.html
so then there's no way I can hide a photo from my timeline but keep it in my photos,because if there were you wolud know?
ReplyDeleteHow to unhide the post which I hid earlier on my timeline?
ReplyDeletewow! got it man. Thanks. You may ignore my question now :)
ReplyDeleteDidn't work for me. My activity log won't go that far back in time. I hid something from 1970's last wee, but my activity log did not show that "activity" from last week. Just to be sure, I thought I might have to go back to the seventies, but that was obviously no good since I started my Facebook account in 2009! So... what I hid from my timeline in the 70's is no longer available for my to unhide. In fact, everything before 1995 is gone!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, this is an important point for 'How to unhide a post'.
ReplyDeletemy face book use by my girl fren too so, i want to delete all activity from activity log, plz guys give me a easy way to delete
ReplyDeleteme again
ReplyDeletecan I move photos from one album to another without having to upload them all over again?
Here you go, found this on the fb help center and works like magic, you can move photos between albums on Facebook easily.
ReplyDeleteHow do I move photos between albums?To move photos between albums you've created:Go to an existing album from the Photos section of your profile (timeline).Select Edit Album at the top of the pageSelect Edit Photos in the bottom left cornerSelect a new album from the drop-down menu under each photo you wish to moveClick Save Changes to move the selected photosNote that this option is only available for albums you have created. Albums that are compiled automatically, such as the Profile Pictures, Mobile Uploads, and Wall Photos albums cannot be edited in this way.
Source: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=187697921280875
thanks :)
ReplyDeleteDoesn't work for me. The Hide from Timeline tab is not working!
ReplyDeleteJust got trap in this new Timeline, I hv this post in the "activity log" that I want to removed. Search all corners for a way to so but fail. Can you advise?
ReplyDeleteWhen I do the above I only get resize or the pencil icon. Can't get to delete which is what I want to do!
ReplyDeleteI'm having the same problem. Couple of days ago my profile was updated to timeline without my choice, although facebook said it's gonna be mandatory from the 14th of february on.
ReplyDeleteSo I realized that many things in my privacy settings were changed to be seen by the "public"...I freaked out and started to delete all posts that I made and hide the ones that friends made...now I've "allowed" back to my timeline posts made by friends but..HOW CAN I BRING BACK A POST THAT I HAVE DELETED?
now i have deactyivated my acct and reactivate it again after 2 days.. im just afraid if my games app will go back to level 1?
ReplyDeleteI have extra pics in my photo album i would like to delete . How do I do this?
ReplyDeleteHi, how can i hide my "Likes" (I mean likes of pages etc.) of some people who are in my friend-list?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I "customized" everything ("friends except xy"), I can't find any possibility to hide my likes of pages of these few people. In the section "likes", you have the possibility to "edit" the visibility of FAVORITES (musicians etc.) and OTHER PAGES. But EVERYONE in my friend-list still can see my page-likes in 2011, 2010, 2009,...
I deleted them from my timeline, but the likes can still be seen in the section "likes" (seperated by year).
my friend posted a photo on my timeline I need to delete it but i cant find the delete option I found only hide option what can I do
ReplyDeleteThis is a option to remove a post..but if a pic is posted you cannot delete it
ReplyDeleteGo to ''Home". om left side near you profile picture you see FAVORITES and you will see also News feed..when u put your mouse over news feed you see a little pen on the left of news feed..if u click on this little pen you have ''edit'' options..go to edit and find the applicators you want unhidden and click on X..that is it..
ReplyDeleteWhere is the world icon I can't find it anywhere as i want to set my App Activity to Post.
ReplyDeleteThere is the circle beside each world icon once you click on 'Activity Log'. Clicking on the circle gives you the options to either post, hide or highlight stories on your Timeline
ReplyDeleteThankyou found it!!! it is set to Allow on Timeline but my activity box for Cafe World has dissappeared after i hid it and when i went to undo option it dissappeared, can't seem to get it back now. Any suggestions on how I can get my Cafe World Activity box back to my Timeline Profile page.
ReplyDeleteGo to account settings and then apps and then edit. Set the app permission to post to Facebook as me. let me know if this helps.
ReplyDeleteClick on 'Likes' and then on edit, choose the year and then click the drop-down arrow next to the world icon and set permissions form there. Please let me know if it works.
ReplyDeleteTry through'Activity Log'
ReplyDeleteIt was already set to post, so i deleted app and reloaded it, still did not work Thankyou anyway!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have done that for some of the old posts, but on several when I click on the Edit icon, it says "None", and I am not able to hide or delete. How do I get past this???
ReplyDeleteFind those posts on your 'Activity Log' and then delete from there.
ReplyDeleteMy friend posted photo in my wall and i want to remove it, in the pencil menu i get to see only two option reposition photo and hide from timeline, i don't see the delete option.....
ReplyDeleteActivity log doesn't had that post too ,RSVP PLEASE !
ReplyDeleteURGENT !
Problem is when i tag my friends in a post and hide my post from my profile , when i go to my friend profile i still saw that post , but i want to delete it , so how ?
ReplyDeleteYou could try to find that post in your news feed and delete it from there.
ReplyDeleteCan't remove profile pics I just put on that I don't want there...........used to be able to just click on them and delete like any other photos!
ReplyDeletehow do you delete a post that someone posted on your timeline? it is a photo and i realised that i can only 'hide from timeline' but not remove it? the person that can only remove it , is the one who posted it on my timeline.... why is that? lots of bulls**t in my opinion.... does anybody know? please feel free to reply...
ReplyDeleteI need to delete an old uploaded video from my video "app" box - it is no longer relevant and I want another video to show up. Only the most recent shows. If I have to upload it again, how do I do that?
ReplyDeleteIn your status bar click on photo and then on upload photo/video and then upload the video again.
ReplyDeletewhen i hide something on my timeline, it still shows up in my friends' news feeds... in the old profile i could hide (from my profile AND the news feed) if i comment/liked something. now even if i hide it on my timeline, it still shows up on the newsfeed so the hide feature seems completely pointless... is there anyway to do it like the old way and just hide it COMPLETELY?
ReplyDeletehow do i delete a post i made to a Friend's timeline? there is no X or anything. when I click it, it just shows the post and nothing else?
ReplyDeletehow can i stop one person seeing my timeline? I tried adding their name under privacy but when i view my profile as them it still shows the timeline
ReplyDeleteYou will have to go to activity log and delete the post from there.
ReplyDeleteThe only way would be to block there.
ReplyDeleteYou should find an (X) mark with the delete option. If it is not showing up there must be a bug in the system. Try again after a day.
ReplyDeleteI hid my entire timeline. I'm reading the posts here, but I have no idea how to find my activity log, etc. Help.
ReplyDeletei tried that, but i dont want to delete it, i just want to hide it!
ReplyDeleteHiding from you own Timeline works exactly as it sounds. It will only be hid from your Timeline but still available on news feeds of your friends. If anyone else has a solution please do reply.
ReplyDeleteOnce you on your Timeline activity log is found just beneath your cover photo on the right-hand side.
ReplyDeletedarn i didn't think there was a way to hide it from the news feed.. thank you for clarifying though!
ReplyDeleteHow to hide my comments?
ReplyDeleteI just want to rid my Albums of old pictures/photos..as they are never used especially my Profile Album
ReplyDeleteyes and most times when you hover over the pencil....it says none....what's up with that?
ReplyDeleteGood post but how do you put something back again? I hid a photo and now it doesn't show up anywhere?
ReplyDeleteFind it on your Timeline and from there use the option 'Allowed on Timeline'.
ReplyDeleteSince Timeline is still new there are bugs in the system. For further options you will need to find the post in your activity log and choose options from there.
ReplyDeleteGo the album, click on edit album from there choose edit album again to delete individual photos or delete entire album.
ReplyDeleteThat is because it is posted by a friend. Only your friends can delete it as it sits in his photo album. You can only hide it or remove it from Timeline.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to remove some pictures I posted on my timeline but when I hover on the right corner, a menu shows up but there is no delete option anymore. I've tried that a couple of times now, but there is still no 'delete' option.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me?
To delete to remove find those picture posts on your activity log and remove or delete from there. If they are old you will need to scroll to that year on Activity Log and find it there.
ReplyDeleteClick on album, click on edit and then use the delete option.
ReplyDeletenot correct. there is no option to do this yet. fb should add one
ReplyDeleteIf I added a friend on Facebook two years ago and deleted them now, will that show up on Facebook? Will it show as an added friend and deleted, or never added at all?
ReplyDeleteI have deleted all the posts of 2 years, its been an "horror" film and its not over yet... i already see the years that I deleted in the scrolling years, i dont want to let know people when I joint FCB, I want that other see only my 2 last years, and hell I've deleted hundred posts!!! Please help :S
ReplyDeleteIt will not show up on your Timeline
ReplyDeleteThe more you delete from a certain year, the more fb will generate till all the posts from a particular year are deleted. You will simply have to manually delete posts from the entire year to clear it. Even if you use an app to delete posts. fb will generate more from the same here. You will have to manually delete and clear posts from that entire year.
ReplyDeleteHi, I have a problem on my timeline, I liked something on a website without paying attention and now it's on my timeline.
ReplyDeleteWhen I click on "edit/remove", the options below do not apear as usual, instead I have a little "waiting" sign with little blue bars dancing... I know it meens "wait for it" but the options NEVER appear. Usually i don't have this problem, it's the first time ! What can I do ? please it seems like I've tried everything... :(
have you tried deleting or removing it from your Activity Log?
ReplyDeleteWhat if the function does not work - seems like FB blueprint won't allow me to knock it off my like postings - the darn thing just keeps cycling and goes no where. Try it yourself.
ReplyDeletei removed something by accident. anyway to get it back?
ReplyDeletei like 1000 pages on facebook, but this was a long time ago, how can i just delete all of them ??
ReplyDeleteI had no problem removing many old posts by clicking on Edit or Delete. However, there are 5-6 more posts I'd like to get rid of and when I click on Edit Delete it doesn't do anything. What can I do?
ReplyDeleteayo ko mag time line
ReplyDeleteyes but it doesn't appear on my activity log ! Anything else I do appears but not this post. It's really really weird !
ReplyDeleteTrue. I have the same problem. It's really annoying. I want to be able to decide wheter or not I want my picture anywhere. Grrr
ReplyDeletePlease let me know if you find out how you can delete a picture on Timeline.
Have you tried removing the picture after accessing your activity log?
ReplyDeletePeople posted on my wall for my birthday on both the birthday and the
ReplyDeletenext dayr. However, now my timeline only shows the few people who posted
the day after as "X friends posted on her timeline for her birthday"
rather than the ones who posted on the correct day. What worse is that
all the posts posted ON my birthday are not shown on the timeline
anymore... please help! i want to reply some of the bday wishes only to
find that they've disappeared.
It doesn't work. I've been looking all over the net to figure this out. Everywhere it says there is no option to delete... only hide (which means everyone can still see it... just not on your timeline).
ReplyDeleteOnly albums that your create can you delete and edit. Albums generated by FB cannot be deleted or edited - like profile pictures and cover photos. You can however choose the option - make this only visible to me. You can do this by clicking on the profile photos album and then click on the drop-down arrow next to the cog icon and choose only me or custom to make it visible to only selected people.
ReplyDeleteGo to your activity Log and then try highlighting some of the posts you want visible on Timeline. see if this works.
ReplyDeleteWhen i post a comment on someones picture or status, it doesnt show up
ReplyDeleteon my timeline (my profile), because i already pressed "hide all" on all kind of recent activities. So even the "recent activity box" isnt on my profile/timeline anymore.
But ANYTHING I DO (exept interaction with friends who dont share friendship with the ones looking into their ticker and 'friend only setting' on their content) shows up in my friends Mini- Ticker!
Besides, when i press "activity log" on my profile, every like/ comment i
made is "allowed on timeline" although it doesnt show up on my
profile/timeline.
When i press the X the only option is to delete the
comment.
How can i hide my "recent activity" (all likes, all comments i do) once and for all?
Here is a solution for 'Hide all Like Activity'
ReplyDeleteHow to hide, stop, erase, remove, turn off all Likes activity on Facebook.1. Login to Facebook2. Click on profile3. Hover over one of your Likes and click the (x) mark next to it3. From the drop-down that appears click on 'Hide all Likes activity'
4. Click on 'Hide All'
5. You're done
my timeline doesnt show da likes dat i make...still ppl r able to get to kno.. obviously m missin somethin here... plz tel me hw to stop ppl frm watchin these notifications ..
ReplyDeletecan you delete Likes, as in when someone likes your photo, I want to delete that sh*t.
ReplyDeleteHere is a solution for 'Hide all Like Activity'
ReplyDeleteHow to hide, stop, erase, remove, turn off all Likes activity on Facebook.1. Login to Facebook2. Click on profile3. Hover over one of your Likes and click the (x) mark next to it3. From the drop-down that appears click on 'Hide all Likes activity'
4. Click on 'Hide All'
5. You're done
Note: likes will still show up on your Timeline but not your activity feed. This way only if someone visits your Timeline will they be able to see your likes.
How do I remove all of the past statuses from 2011, 2010 and 2009 off Timeline??
ReplyDeleteHow can i delete pics from my timeline album? i dont get the edit options like i do with my other albums
ReplyDeletehow to delete all post in timeline
ReplyDeletehow to delete all post in timeline
ReplyDeleteLike
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You cannot delete pics from albums generated by Facebook. Always upload pics to albums you create and then you'll have the option to delete or edit.
ReplyDeleteI did this and a day later the posts came back! You can't seem to perminately delete posts its creepy!!
ReplyDeletetime line is shocking, get rid of it
ReplyDeleteI have done everything to try to get rid of this stupid picture on my facebook profile page - usually i can click on the x on the right and it says hide or delete now it just say you have marked this and report as offensive or spam - and i don't want to do that - I JUST WANT IT GONE - I unfriended the person and blocked him - than i unblocked him but did not friend him again and the picture is back............never had this problem ever
ReplyDeleteI accidentally deleted a picture from my timeline and I want to put it back. When I got to activity log it's not there to put back but the picture is in my mobile uploads. Is there anyway to put it back on my timeline?
ReplyDeleteWhy arent my post showin on my news feed...yet theyr showing on my page...no one is able to see wht ive postd unless they good to my page.
ReplyDelete