How to block people from seeing your friends on facebook

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Make your Friends list visible to some friends or just you

Updated on October 20, 2021

What to Know

• Web browser: Go to Settings & Privacy > Settings > Privacy and select Edit next to Who can see your friends list.
• Mobile: Go to Menu > Settings & Privacy > Settings > Audience and Visibility > How People Find and Contact You.
• If you set your Friends list visibility to only yourself, people can still see mutual friends on your profile. Everything else is hidden.

It's possible to hide your Friends list on Facebook in case you don't want other users to see everyone else you're friends with. You can hide your Friends list from the general public, from specific friends, or from everyone. This article covers Facebook.com and the Facebook mobile app for iOS and Android.

How to Hide Your Facebook Friends List

To customize your Facebook privacy settings for your Friends list on Facebook.com:

1. Log in to Facebook.com, select the down arrow in the upper-right corner, and then select Settings & Privacy from the drop-down list.

2. Select Settings.
   

3. Select Privacy in the left menu.

4. In the How People Find and Contact You section, look for Who can see your friends list and select the Edit link to the right of it.

5. Select the drop-down menu to choose your new privacy setting.

6. To see how your profile looks to a public user (someone who's not your friend), navigate to your profile, select the three dots in the lower-right corner of your cover photo, and then select View As.

How to Hide Your Friends List in the Facebook App

The steps for changing your Friends list settings on the mobile app are similar:

1. Tap Menu (three horizontal lines).

2. Tap Settings & Privacy.

3. Tap Settings.

4. Scroll down to the Audience and Visibility section and tap How People Find and Contact You.

5. Tap Who can see your friends list.

6. Tap one of the options to set your privacy preferences.

   If you set up custom Friends lists on Facebook, select See All to choose a custom list.

What Happens When You Hide Facebook Friends?

If you decide to set your Friends list visibility to only yourself (Only me), both friends and non-friends can still see mutual friends you may have under the Friends section on your profile. Only mutual friends are shown. The rest are hidden.

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If you don’t want people to see your Facebook friends, you can hide your friends list from them. This guide will show you how to do that on Facebook on both desktop and mobile.

Note: You only need to hide your Facebook friends list once, on either desktop or mobile. The change will apply to all your signed-in devices automatically.

Hide Facebook Friends List From Everyone or Specific People

On Facebook, you can hide your friends list from everyone, specific people, or custom people lists that you have created. This gives you great control over who can see your friends.

Keep in mind, though, that people can still see your mutual friends, even if you’ve hidden the friends list from everyone.

RELATED: How to Share Facebook Posts with Only Certain Friends

On a desktop computer like Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook, use the Facebook website to make your friends list private.

To start, open a web browser on your computer and launch Facebook. In the site’s top-right corner, click the down-arrow icon.

In the menu that opens after clicking the down-arrow icon, select “Settings & Privacy.”

In the “Settings & Privacy” menu, click “Settings.”

You will arrive on a “Settings” page. From the sidebar to the left, select “Privacy.” This opens Facebook’s privacy settings page.

On the right pane, you will see a “How People Find and Contact You” section. In this section, next to “Who Can See Your Friends List,” click “Edit.”

At the bottom of the “Who Can See Your Friends List” section, click the drop-down menu to select who can see your friends.

If you’d like to hide your friends list from everyone, then choose “Only Me” from the drop-down menu. This ensures only you can view the friends list.

Feel free to select any other option from the drop-down menu, depending on who you want to allow to see your friends.

Facebook automatically saves and syncs your changes across all your devices. You are all set.

Did you know you can also restrict specific friends from seeing your posts without unfriending them?

Hide Your Facebook Friends List From Mobile

If you are on an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone, use the Facebook app to specify who can see your friends list.

To do so, first, open the Facebook app on your phone. In the app’s top-right corner, tap the three horizontal lines.

You will see a “Menu” page. Scroll this page all the way down, then tap “Settings & Privacy.”

From the “Settings & Privacy” menu, select “Settings.”

You will land on a “Settings & Privacy” page. Scroll down to the “Audience and Visibility” section, then tap “How People Find and Contact You.”

Tap “Who Can See Your Friends List.”

A “Friends List” page will open allowing you to choose who can see your friends. To hide your list from everyone, select the “Only Me” option. You are free to choose any other option if you want.

Facebook will automatically save your changes, and your friends list is now hidden from everyone.

And that’s how you control one more aspect of your social media life!

Want to hide your WhatsApp Status from specific friends? You can do that, too.

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