How to Lock Your Profile on Facebook [Easy Method]

Facebook is one of the best social medial platforms to connect with friends and family or find communities and groups.

However, Facebook has also been used to stalk people and if you are being stalked, you won’t even know about it since Facebook doesn’t let people know who viewed their profile.

Thankfully, if you don’t want strangers viewing your information such as your date of birth, city you live in, your posts, profile picture etc.

You can manually hide all that information from strangers.

Note: Before you begin to lock your Facebook profile, check if you have professional mode disabled. If not, disable it; otherwise, you will not be able to see the lock profile option on Facebook.

How to Lock Your Facebook Profile

If you don’t want to restrict all that information manually, you can simply lock your Facebook Profile which hides all your personal information from strangers. Here is what locking your Facebook profile does:

• Only friends will be able to see your posts, full size profile picture, and stories.
• Only a portion off your ”About” will be visible to everyone.
• Profile Review and Tag Review will automatically be turned on.

How to Lock Your Facebook Profile on Desktop

If you’re using the social media site on a browser such as Safari or Chrome, follow these steps to lock your Facebook profile:

1. First, go to Facebook and login to your account.
2. Now, click on your name on the left side of your screen to go to your profile.
   
3. Here, click on the three dots and then click on ”Lock Profile”.
   
4. You’ll be asked to confirm your choice so just click on “Lock Your Profile”.
5. Your Facebook Profile is now locked.

To unlock your Facebook profile:

1. First, go to Facebook and login to your account.
2. Now, click on your name on the left side of your screen to go to your profile.
3. Here, click on the three dots and then click on ”Unlock Profile”
4. Now, click on Unlock and then click on ”Unlock Your Profile” to confirm.
5. Your Facebook Profile is now unlocked.

How to lock Your Facebook Profile on Mobile

To lock your Facebook Profile on your Android or iOS device, follow these steps:

1. Open the Facebook app and log in to your account.
2. Click on the Hamburger Style menu to open the Menu.
   
3. Now, click on your name to open your profile.
4. Click on the three dots and click on ”Lock Profile”.
   
5. To confirm click on ”Lock Your Profile”.
6. Your Facebook profile is now locked.

To unlock your Facebook Profile:

1. Open the Facebook app and login to your account.
2. Click on the Hamburger style menu to open the menu.
3. Click on your name to go to your profile.
4. Now, click on the three dots and click on ”Unlock Profile”
5. Click on ”Unlock” once again and then click on ”Unlock Your Profile” to confirm.
6. Your Facebook Profile is now unlocked.

Conclusion

It really is that easy to lock and unlock your Facebook profile. I hope this article helped you achieve the same. If you have any questions, you can ask them in the comments below.