How to Hide Your Friends List on Facebook

Your Facebook profile has a lot of information about you that’s available for anyone to see by default. Through privacy settings, you can lock down who can see some of this information and even hide individual posts or photo albums.

If you don’t want just anyone who visits your profile to see your Facebook friends, you can hide your friends list from them. You can even choose to hide them from everyone, only specific people, or a custom list of people you’ve created.

In this article, we’ll show you how to hide your Facebook friends list on your PC, Android, or iPhone.

How to Hide Your Friends List on Facebook

You can hide your friends list on Facebook by changing the Who can see your friends list? option in privacy settings. Here’s how, step-by-step, on your PC, Android, or iPhone:

Desktop/PC

1. Open Facebook.com in your web browser and sign into your account.
2. Click your Profile picture in the upper right corner of Facebook and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
   
3. In the leftmost menu of the following screen, click Privacy under your name.
   
4. In the right panel, scroll down to the How people find and contact you section and click Edit next to Who can see your friends list?.
   
5. Click the dropdown at the bottom of the, now expanded, Who can see your friends list? option and select who you want to be able to see your friends.
   
   Here’s each available option and its effect on people who visit your Facebook profile:
   • Public: Anyone can see your friends list.
   • Friends: Only your friends can see your friends list.
   • Friends except…: Your friends except the ones you choose can see your friends list.
   • Specific Friends: Choose specific friends you want to be able to see your friends list.
   • Only me: No one but you can see your friends list.
   • Custom: Choose a custom list of friends who can see your friends list.
6. Facebook will automatically save your settings after choosing an option. You’re good to go!

Android/iPhone

1. Open the Facebook mobile app and sign into your account.
2. Tap your Profile picture/3 bars in the upper right corner, scroll to the bottom, and tap Settings & Privacy > Settings.
   
3. On the following screen, tap Profile Settings and then Privacy.
   
4. In the Privacy Settings, scroll down to the How people find and contact you section and tap Who can see your friends list?.
   
5. Tap See More to reveal all available options and then select who you want to be able to see your friends.
   
   Here’s each available option and its effect on people who visit your Facebook profile:
   • Public: Anyone can see your friends list.
   • Friends: Only your friends can see your friends list.
   • Friends except…: Your friends except the ones you choose can see your friends list.
   • Specific Friends: Choose specific friends you want to be able to see your friends list.
   • Only me: No one but you can see your friends list.
6. Facebook will automatically save your settings after choosing an option. You’re good to go!

Final Thoughts

Being familiar with Facebook’s privacy settings is a great way to ensure that only people you want to see your information are able to. You can do other neat things through privacy settings too like disabling sharing of your posts and uploading photos without posting them.