How to hide reactions on Facebook post

In the “Reaction preferences” setting, you can choose to hide the number of reactions on your posts and other people’s posts.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to hide likes or reactions on Facebook by modifying your reaction preferences.

• How to hide reactions on Facebook
• How do I make my likes private on Facebook?
• Who can see my likes and comments on Facebook?

How to hide reactions on Facebook

To hide reactions on Facebook, you need to navigate to the “Reaction preferences” setting.

In the reaction preferences setting, you can choose to hide the number of reactions on your posts and other people’s posts.

To do so, you need to enable “On posts from others” and “On your posts”.

By enabling them, reactions will be hidden on posts from others and on your posts.

By enabling “On posts from others”, you won’t be able to see reactions from others.

On the other hand, if you enable “On your posts”, your reactions will be hidden under posts that you share on your profile.

However, reaction counts will still appear in certain places like groups or reels.

Here are 3 steps to hide reactions on Facebook:

1. Open the Facebook app and go to your settings

To begin with, you need to open the Facebook mobile app and log in to your account.

You can also use the desktop version of Facebook for this.

For the purpose of this guide, we’ll use the Facebook mobile app instead.

Once you’re on the Facebook mobile app, tap on the menu icon on the bottom navigation bar.

This will open the Facebook menu containing multiple options.

Scroll down the menu and tap on “Settings & Privacy” to expand it.

Under “Settings & Privacy”, you’ll see 4 options.

This includes “Settings”, “Device requests”, “Recent ad activity”, and “Find Wi-Fi”.

Since you’re looking to hide reactions, tap on “Settings”.

2. Tap on “Reaction preferences”

After you’ve tapped on “Settings”, you’ll land on the “Settings & Privacy” page.

On the page, you can modify your account settings and preferences.

This includes your account information, password, reaction preferences, and more.

Under the “Preferences” header, tap on “Reaction preferences” to go to your reaction preferences.

3. Enable both preferences

After you’ve tapped on “Reaction preferences”, you’ll see a couple of options.

This includes “On posts from others” and “On your posts”.

By default, both of the options are disabled.

Hence, if you want to hide reactions on Facebook, you need to enable both of them.

When you enable “On posts from others”, you won’t see the total number of reactions for posts others share to your News Feed, pages, and groups.

However, you will still see reaction counts for posts in other places such as Marketplace, and for other content, such as reels.

In addition, your reaction to a post will still be visible to you and everyone else unless you enable “On your posts”.

By enabling “On your posts”, other people won’t see the total number of reactions under posts you share to your profile.

However, reaction counts will still appear on your posts in other places like groups or reels.

After you’ve enabled “On posts from others” and “On your posts”, reactions will be hidden on Facebook!

How do I make my likes private on Facebook?

1. Open the Facebook mobile app and log in to your account.
2. Tap on the menu icon.
3. Scroll down and tap on “Settings & Privacy”.
4. Tap on “Settings”.
5. Under “Preferences”, tap on “Reaction preferences”.
6. Enable “On posts from others” and “On your posts”.

Who can see my likes and comments on Facebook?

Anyone can see your likes and comments on Facebook.

However, the person who posts something will be able to control who can see it.

This includes sharing the post to a specific audience like friends only or the public.

Keep in mind that the person will also be able to change the audience at any time.

For example, they can change the audience of the post from “Friends” to “Public”.

If the audience of the post is set to “Public”, anyone will be able to see its likes and comments.

On the other hand, if the audience of the post is set to “Friends”, only the person’s friends will be able to see its likes and comments.

Since May 2021, Facebook has allowed users to hide the number of reactions on their posts. You can also hide the total number of reactions on posts from other users across your home feed, groups, and pages.

In this article, you'll find out how to hide likes on your Facebook posts—as well as how to stop seeing other people's like counts.

How to Hide Your Reactions Count on Facebook

You can hide likes on your Facebook posts through either the mobile app or on your desktop. Below, you'll find out how to do both of these.

Hiding the Facebook Reaction Count on Mobile

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To hide the number of reactions on your posts, follow these steps.

1. Tap the menu icon (the three horizontal lines) on the top-right of your screen (Android) or the bottom of your screen (iPhone and iPad).
2. Scroll down and hit Settings & Privacy.
3. Select Settings.
4. Scroll down to News Feed Settings and select Reaction Preferences. This will take you to the Reactions preferences settings page. From here, you can disable the reactions count on your posts, from posts of other users, or both.
5. Toggle the slider next to On posts from others to hide the total number of reactions on Facebook posts from other users. To hide the number of reactions on your posts, toggle the slider adjacent to On your posts.

Hiding the Reaction Count on Facebook on the Web

If you’re accessing Facebook via a browser using your PC, Mac, or mobile device, follow these steps instead.

1. Select the downward-facing arrow in the top right-hand corner.
2. Choose Settings and Privacy on the next page.
3. Go to News Feed Preferences > Reaction preferences.
4. Toggle on the sliders next to On posts from others or On your posts, or both.

Your new settings are saved automatically.

Understanding Facebook's Reaction Preferences

Facebook’s new reaction preferences settings allow you to hide the number of reactions on your posts as well as posts from other users. But to what extent do these two settings go?

If you hide the number of reactions on posts from other Facebook users, you will not see these counts on your News Feed, Pages, and Facebook groups. This setting will also affect ads that pop up in the News Feed and other places. However, this is not a silver bullet to hide reaction counts across the whole of Facebook.

Related: Why You Should Ignore the Number of Social Media Likes You Get

You will continue to see reaction counts in other places—for example, content in Facebook’s Marketplace section. And if someone wants to do the count manually, they can.

If you're still having a negative experience with the platform after hiding likes on your Facebook posts, you may want to consider either taking a break or permanently deleting your Facebook account.

Depressurize Your Experience on Facebook

Facebook’s new reaction count setting is an excellent way to take your mind of the number of reactions a “Facebook friend” gets. The setting takes the pressure of social comparison off your chest, at least as far as the total number of reactions go on the platform. And remember: you can always choose to delete your Facebook account if it does more harm than good.

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