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How to Prevent Others from Finding Old Posts on Facebook?

Facebook's recent search feature allows you to record old posts from others (if it is set to public). Follow the main steps and troubleshooting guidance.

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How to Prevent Others from Finding Old Posts on Facebook? Covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

Facebook Overview

Step 1: You login your Facebook account and click on the black triangle on the upper right corner and select Settings / Settings.

How to Prevent Others from Finding Old Posts on Facebook?

Step 2: At the Settings / Settings interface, select Privacy / Privacy in the left column and Limit post / Limit previous posts in the right column

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Step 3: In the drop down dialog box, click Limit Old Posts / Limit posts in the past. So all the old Facebook posts that you set up public sharing (public) will be changed so that only friends can see them.

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Step 4: In the Who can see my stuff section, click Edit to limit the sharing object for future posts.

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If you want to delete old posts on Facebook, you can follow the instructions in the article: How to delete status series, remove Facebook tags in a single click

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How to Prevent Others from Finding Old Posts on Facebook?.

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Covers the essential facts behind the topic, including what changed, why it mattered, and how it affected users.

What should you do if the process does not work as expected?

Facebook Overview Step 1: You login your Facebook account and click on the black triangle on the upper right corner and select Settings / Settings.

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