Sharing is perhaps one of the Facebook’s most basic, and popular, features. Sharing allows your friends to share your posts with their friends, all with the simple click of a button.
While you might want your friends and family to see your posts, you might not want them sharing your posts with others. Sometimes, you might even want to post something to Facebook without sharing it with anyone.
Thankfully, you can adjust your privacy settings to remove the share button from your posts on Facebook. In this article, we’ll show you how in both the Android / iOS mobile and and via the Facebook website on your PC.
You can remove the share button from your Facebook posts under the Profile and Tagging section of your Privacy Settings. Below, we’ll show you how in both the Android / iOS mobile app and and on your PC:
Android / iOS Mobile App
- Open the Facebook mobile app and sign into your account.
- Tap your Profile picture/3 bars in the upper right corner, scroll to the bottom, and tap Settings & Privacy > Settings.
- On the following screen, tap Profile Settings and then
Profile and Tagging.
- Lastly, tap Allow others share your posts to their stories? and change this setting to
No.
Desktop / PC
- Open facebook.com in a web browser and sign into your account.
- Click your Profile picture in the upper right corner of
Facebook and select Settings & Privacy >
Settings.
- In the leftmost menu of the following screen, click Privacy and then
Stories.
- Lastly, turn off
Allow others to share your public stories to their own story? by clicking the Toggle icon to the right of it in the right
panel.