How to Hide Photos & Albums on Facebook

While looking through your old Facebook photos, you might find a few that you’d prefer to hide from your profile. Maybe those photos from your best friend’s wedding reception 5 years ago aren’t so funny now.

With Facebook’s 350 million daily photo uploads, you’re likely not alone in regretting making some of your photos publicly visible. You could delete them, but those are your memories even if they are slightly embarrassing!

Thankfully, Facebook allows you to change the privacy settings of past posts and photos so that only you can see them – here’s how!

How to Hide Individual Photos on Facebook

Android/iPhone

1. Open the Facebook mobile app and sign into your account.
2. Navigate to your profile and tap Photos under the status bar.
   
3. Tap the Uploads or Albums tab and then tap the photo you wish to hide. We’ll cover how to hide “Photos of You” in another section below.
   
4. Tap the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the photo and select Edit post privacy.
   
5. Change the photo privacy to Only me. You may need to tap See more to reveal this option.
   
6. Tap the Back arrow in the upper left corner to save your settings.

Desktop/PC

1. Open Facebook.com in your web browser and sign into your account.
2. Navigate to your profile and click Photos under your name / bio.
   
3. Click the Your Photos or Albums tab and then click the photo you wish to hide. We’ll cover how to hide “Photos of You” in another section below.
   
4. Click the 3 dots in the far right corner of, or below (on smaller displays), the photo and select Edit post audience.
   
5. Select Only me in the Select Audience window that appears.
   

How to Hide Entire Albums on Facebook

Android/iPhone

1. Open the Facebook mobile app and sign into your account.
2. Navigate to your profile and tap Photos under the status bar.
   
3. Tap the Albums tab and then tap the album you wish to hide.
   
   Note: You cannot hide the Profile Pictures, Cover Photos, Videos, Mobile Uploads, or Timeline Photos albums. You can hide each individual photo in the album though using the same steps above.
   
4. Tap the 3 dots in the upper right corner and select Edit.
   
5. Tap the Audience selector field (it should currently show as Public) and change it to Only me. You may need to tap See more to reveal this option.
   
6. Tap the Back arrow and then tap Done in the upper right corner of the following screen to save your changes.
   

Desktop/PC

1. Open Facebook.com in your web browser and sign into your account.
2. Navigate to your profile and click Photos under your name / bio.
   
3. Click the Albums tab and locate the album you wish to hide.
4. Click the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the album and select Edit Album.
   
   Note: You cannot hide the Profile Pictures, Cover Photos, Videos, Mobile Uploads, or Timeline Photos albums. You can hide each individual photo in the album though using the same steps above.
   
5. Click the Audience button under Edit Album in the panel at the far left.
   
6. Select Only me in the Select Audience window that appears.
   
7. Finally, save your changes using the Save button at the bottom of the left panel.

How to Hide “Photos of You” on Facebook

Android/iPhone

1. Open the Facebook mobile app and sign into your account.
2. Tap the 3 bars in the upper right corner and select Settings & Privacy > Settings near the bottom.
   
3. Tap Profile and Tagging under the Privacy section.
   
4. Under Tagging, tap Who can see posts you're tagged in on your profile? and change it to Only Me. You may need to tap See more to reveal this option.
   
5. Tap the Back button to save your changes.
6. Do the same for the When you're tagged in a post, who do you want... option. This will make sure that future posts you’re tagged in will not show up on your profile.
   

Desktop/PC

1. Open Facebook.com in your web browser and sign into your account.
2. Click the Down arrow in the upper right corner of Facebook and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
   
3. In the menu at the far left, click Profile and Tagging.
   
4. Click Who can see posts you're tagged in on your profile? to the right of Tagging and change it to Only me.
   
5. Do the same for the When you're tagged in a post, who do you want... option. This will make sure that future posts you’re tagged in will not show up on your profile.
   

Final Thoughts

For many people, Facebook has slowly become a digital photo album where some of their favorite memories are stored. Now that you know how to hide your old photos, why not check out how to add new photos to Facebook without posting them?