Login to Facebook from browser.
Click on your profile picture on top right > Settings & Privacy > Settings
Go to Meta Accounts centre (clicking on See more in Accounts Centre will also redirect you there).
- Two-factor authentication >
- Use two-factor authentication > Edit > Use Authentication App > Scan the QR code using an authenticator app > Continue > Enter 6 digit code > Continue > Done
- After the above step is complete, setup recovery codes and save them.
ℹ️ NOTE 1: Don't use Google Authenticator or Duo as mentioned there. Instead use a privacy respecting authenticator app. Check out recommendations, alternatives & reviews.
ℹ️ NOTE 2: The backup codes downloaded is required to login, if 2FA method is lost, broken or unavailable. Keep these codes somewhere safe, to prevent loss or unauthorized access. They can be stored in a password manager, in an encrypted note, or write them down somewhere safe.
- Where you're logged in >
- Select your account > click on
Select devices to log out> select any device you don't use and click onLog out
- Select your account > click on
- Login alerts >
- Select your account > select both
- Your activity off Meta technologies >
- Manage future activity > select
Disconnect future activity
- Manage future activity > select
Click on See all next to Ad topics > in the popup, click on the search bar at the top > click on each category & select See less for every one of them
- Categories used to reach you >
- Click on each category & select
Nofor every one of them (if there's too many, remove as many as you can, or do it over a period of few days) - Click on
View and manageunderCategories associated with you> clickRemoveif any associated category is shown
- Click on each category & select
- Activity information from ad partners >
- Review setting > select
No, don't make my ads more relevant by using this information> Confirm
- Review setting > select
- Ads shown outside of Meta >
- Not allowed
- Social interactions >
- select your account > select
Only Me
- select your account > select
- Lock your profile > OK
- Remove everything
- Remove everything
- Remove everything
- Remove everything
- Remove phone number if added
- Provide false birth date & year and set them to
Only me
- Who can see your friends list?: Don't select
Public
- People with your email address: No one
- People with your phone number: No one
- Off
- Who can see your future posts?: Friends
- Who can see your stories?: Don't select
Public - Allow others to share your public stories to their own story?: Off
- Archiving your stories: Off
- Allow others to share your reels to their stories?: Off
- Who can see your reels?: Don't select
Public
- Who can follow me: Friends
- Who can see your followers on your timeline?: Don't select
Public - Who can see the people, Pages and lists you follow?: Don't select
Public - Who can comment on your public posts?: Friends
- Public profile info: Friends
- Who can post on your profile?: Friends
- Who can see what others post on your profile?: Don't select
EveryoneorFriends of friends - Allow others to share your posts to their story?: Off
- Who can see posts that you're tagged in on your profile?: Don't select
EveryoneorFriends of friends - When you're tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience of the post if they can't already see it?:
FriendsorOnly me - Review tags that friends add to your posts before the tags appear on Facebook?: On
- Review posts that you're tagged in before the post appears on your profile?: On
Remove anything you don't use
Remove any personally identifiable info like phone numbers, email, location etc. from your Facebook bio.