How to Lock Your Facebook Profile

How to Lock Your Facebook Profile via Mobile App or Desktop

 Facebook offers its users a privacy option, including the ability to lock their profile. Locking a user's profile only shows a limited view of the profile to people who are not on a friend's list on Facebook. A locked profile will show photos and posts on the timeline, profile picture and cover photos, story, and new posts only to people who are on the friend list. Furthermore, their 'public' positions will no longer be public and only visible to friends.

If you want to lock your Facebook profile, you can do it from the mobile app or from your browser, however, it should be noted that the desktop version of Facebook does not have the option to lock your profile, but the workaround is. Also, this feature is limited to Android apps. Read on to know how you can lock your Facebook profile.

Lock Facebook profile through a mobile app

To lock your Facebook profile through the Android mobile app:

1-Open the Facebook app and tap on your profile

2- Tap the three-dot menu icon next to 'Add to Story'

3-Here, you should see a lock profile option, tap on it

The 4-Next page will give you information about how it works with the option to lock your profile below, tap on it

50 You should see a pop-up that says 'You locked your profile', tap on OK

Lock Facebook profile via desktop

While there is no direct way to lock your app from a browser, there is a workaround that you cannot use even for a mobile app:

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1- Head to https://www.facebook.com/

2-Click on your profile icon in the URL, replace it with www with so m 'so that the URL now read .com / m.facebook.com/yourprofilename'

3-This will take you to a mobile version of Facebook on your desktop browser and you should see a three-dot menu next to the Edit Profile option

4- In the three-dot menu, you should see the lock profile option, click on it

5- Like the Android version, this next page will show you how locking works, with an option to lock your profile at the bottom. Click on it

6- Now your profile is locked

iOS users can use the desktop workaround to lock their profiles or to borrow Android devices and follow the steps above.

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If you want to unlock your Facebook profile, the steps are the same on both mobile apps and desktops. In place of the lock profile option, you will now see an unlock profile option, tap on it, and hit unlock on the next screen. You will see a brief description of how your profile works and there is an option to unlock your profile at the bottom, click on it and your profile will be unlocked.