How Can You Lock Your Facebook Profile or Account? Step By Step Guide

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(Last Updated On: March 2, 2022)

Facebook remains a trending social media app across the globe for smartphones as well as desktop users. Re-monikered as Meta, this platform has been offering a plethora of services to the masses. The company has been consistently upgrading its platform and has been roping in newer technologies for the best user experience.

Facebook’s popularity isn’t fading despite several players’ ventures into this space. A secure user platform along with multiple other features is the prime factor for its successor amongst the audience. Currently, Facebook has over 2.9 billion daily active users who access their profiles and other services almost on a daily basis. Creating a user account or profile is the first step you would require to access Facebook’s services.

The social media app has been gradually added new security features to keep a user profile or account protected from unwanted threats. The Facebook Profile Lock option is one of the newest security measures that the social media giant has introduced on its platform for added privacy. If you wish to keep your Facebook profile data including general posts, photos, video uploads, etc., at bay from strangers or even hackers, locking it is the best option to prevent it.

Once you lock any Facebook profile, none of the Facebook profiles that aren’t added to your friends will be able to view your account’s posts and other personal information. So, how do you lock your Facebook account or profile? We have listed the steps that you can perform to lock your Facebook account. Take a look:

How Can You Lock Your Facebook Account Or Profile?

Step 1: The option to lock a Facebook profile is present on both mobile app and the desktop version. Launch the Facebook app on your respective devices and log into your profiles using valid credentials.

Step 2: Tap on the menu option (three dots) that you can locate right next to the “Edit” profile option.

Step 3: You will see several options to modify accounts settings including the “Lock Profile” tab. Click on it. The next page will show all the benefits of the Facebook profile lock feature.

Step 4: Now, you will need to select the “Lock your profile” option to complete the Facebook profile lock process.

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