Saturday, October 11, 2025

How To Improve Privacy By Hiding Your Photos From Strangers On Facebook

Facebook has been the frontrunner among all social networks over the last few years. However, despite all its popularity, there are still a number of users who are not comfortable revealing their photos to strangers. Here is a guide to understanding how you can get Facebook to hide photo albums from those not on the friend list.

You can always turn the Private feature on Facebook to hide photo albums. The social network has a number of privacy options that are used via its app version or browser login.      

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You can pick among hiding individual photos, albums or even posts from-

  • Public
  • Specific friends
  • Everyone

As a part of privacy options on Facebook, users can even hide their profiles from any stranger and also lock the profile for ensuring all information is private.

In order to hide all photos on Facebook via a smartphone, open the Facebook app and tap the hamburger menu on the right hand top corner of the Android app.

  • On Menu, click on the profile name. This opens up the profile for access.
  • Go down and click on Photos.
  • Navigate to Uploads and select what you want Facebook to hide, photo albums or a photo.
  • Tap  the  menu button with three dots at top corner on the right of an image.
  • A menu pops up. Click on Edit privacy/ Edit post privacy.
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  • Click See More for viewing all available options.
  • Choose who you want to enable for seeing your photos.
  • Settings gets auto-saved.
  • How to Hide An Entire Album On Facebook?
  • You can use Facebook to hide photo albums too.
  • Click on Menu. Open Profile and then Photos.
  • Click on Albums, not Uploads.
  • Select the album.
  • Once the pop-up men opens, select Edit for changing the setting. If you want to hide from every user, choose Only Me.
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You may do the same set of changes using browser login too. Facebook is committed to your privacy all right! You only need to figure out the ideal settings for Facebook to hide photo albums you choose.

Satarupa Bhattacharya
Satarupa Bhattacharya
Satarupa B. Kaur has been writing professionally since a decade now. Always on the go; she loves to travel, books, playtime with her toddler--as she explores new places, amazing food and anything tech!

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