How to unfollow someone on Facebook

Your Facebook Feed updates you on every event from people you follow. Sometimes, keeping up with every detail about someone’s life or when there’s activity inside a followed group or page can become exhausting. The Feed changes every time someone makes a post, which causes notifications to pile up, flooding your Android tablet or phone with content you dislike. You can silence these notifications, but it doesn’t make the notifications disappear; they remain until you’ve cleared them within the app. Instead of hiding the problem, you can perform one easy step: unfollow them.

When you unfollow someone on Facebook, they remain on your friend list. This action ensures you won’t stay subscribed to their posts, so they no longer appear on your Feed — nor do they know you’ve unfollowed them. If you’d like to test this feature with your Facebook friends, here’s a simple guide to help you.

How unfollowing someone works on Facebook

When you add someone as a friend on Facebook, you automatically follow each other. You can also follow people without being friends with them if their settings allow it. Following people allows you to see and interact with their posts in your News Feed. If you no longer want to see the content they upload, unfollow them.

Unfollowing someone stops their posts and stories from appearing on your feed completely, but you can still view them when you visit their profile page. It’s also worth noting that unfollowing is different from blocking or unfriending someone. You still receive birthday notifications when you unfollow them.

Besides that, every other functionality is not affected, such as messaging, commenting, and liking. The procedure works the same way if your friend unfollows you, and the setting remains effective until any of you clicks or taps the follow button again on your device. Friends and non-friends don’t receive notifications when you unfollow them. If you follow them again, they still won’t get a notification. Use the steps below to begin unfollowing people on Facebook.

How to unfollow someone on the Facebook mobile app

There are three ways to use Facebook to unfollow people:

• Settings menu: Manage your Facebook News Feed preferences. You can add people as your favorites, snooze, unfollow, and reconnect with profiles you unfollowed.
• People’s profiles: Unfollow, Unfriend, and Take a Break from friends. Take a Break is a harsher feature that lets you see less of someone and hide moments shared with them. You can also edit who can see the posts between you two.
• Posts on your Feed: Tapping the three-dot icon beside a person’s posts from your Feed displays the option to unfollow them.

1. Open the Facebook app.
2. Tap your profile picture or the menu icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.

   

3. Tap Settings & privacy to expand a drop-down menu.
4. Tap Settings.

   

   

5. Under Preferences, tap News Feed.
6. In the What’s in your Feed menu, select Unfollow to view the pages and people you follow.

   

   

7. Tap Unfollow next to anyone’s profile icon, and Facebook automatically unfollows them.
8. To follow them again, return to the What’s in your Feed menu and tap Reconnect.

   

   

9. You will see a list of people you unfollowed and when you did it.
10. Tap Follow next to any profile icon, and Facebook automatically follows that profile. The followed profile returns to the Unfollow menu.

Unfollow people from their Facebook profiles

1. Visit a Facebook profile.
2. Tap the Friends button to expand an options list.
3. Select Unfollow.

   

   

Unfollow people from Facebook posts

1. Find a post from someone you want to unfollow on your News Feed.
2. Tap the three-dot icon beside the post.
3. Tap Unfollow, and it’s done without confirmation.

   

   

How to unfollow someone on Facebook from your browser

When you use the Facebook website, you can unfollow people from their posts on your Feed, their profile, and the Settings menu.

1. Click your profile icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.

   

2. Click Settings & Privacy.

   

3. Select Feed.

   

4. In the Manage your Feed menu, click Unfollow people and groups.

   

5. Click the blue icon with a tick beside a profile to unfollow them. The icon turns gray and has a + sign.

   

6. Click the icon again to follow the person.

Unfollow people from Facebook posts

1. On your Feed, find a post from the person you want to unfollow.
2. Click the three-dot icon beside the post.
3. Select the Unfollow option.

   

4. Alternatively, hover your mouse over the person’s name.
5. Click the Friends button.
6. Select Unfollow.

   

Unfollow people from their Facebook profiles

1. Visit the profile of the person you’d like to unfollow.
2. Click the Friends button.
3. Select Unfollow.

   

How to snooze people on Facebook

Unfollowing someone is a great way to mute their posts when they become too much. The feature has no timer, so anyone can remain unfollowed until you decide to follow them again. If you prefer to take a temporary break from their posts, you can snooze someone for 30 days. After 30 days, Facebook displays their posts on your Feed again. You have to follow people to be able to snooze them, and you can only do it via their post on your Feed.

Snooze people on the Facebook mobile app

1. Open Facebook.
2. On your Feed, find a post from the person you want to snooze.
3. Tap the three-dot icon beside the post.
4. Select the Snooze option.

   

Snooze people on Facebook from your browser

1. On your Feed, find a post from the person you want to snooze.
2. Click the three-dot icon beside the post.
3. Select the Snooze option.

   

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How to manage people you snooze on Facebook

You can end a snooze from the Facebook settings menu before 30 days. If the snooze has elapsed 30 days, you can restart it again. There’s no limit to how many times you can snooze a person.

Manage people you snooze on the Facebook mobile app

1. Tap the menu icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.
2. Go to Settings & Privacy > Settings > News Feed.
3. In the What’s in your Feed menu, select Snooze.
4. To stop an ongoing snooze, tap End Snooze.
5. To restart a snooze, tap Snooze.

   

   

Manage people you snooze on Facebook from your browser

1. Click your profile icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.
2. Go to Settings & privacy > Feed.
3. Click Snooze.
4. To end an ongoing snooze, click the blue clock icon to turn it gray.

   

5. To restart a snooze, click the gray clock icon to turn it blue.

Sometimes, you just need a break

Facebook has interesting features. You can customize how you interact with your friends by subscribing or unsubscribing to their posts when necessary. Some people prefer to use Facebook to log every aspect of their lives, but for some, that becomes too much to keep track of. Other times, it is just an added distraction.

Unfollowing someone doesn’t mean the end of texting. It’s simply an option to give you some space or an opportunity to recharge, especially if you’re part of any spam groups on Facebook Messenger. Unfortunately, the unfollow feature doesn’t stop chats from people you don’t follow. Instead, you can leave a group chat on every messaging app and permanently rid yourself of distractions. The downside of this option is that you can’t quietly leave; everyone receives a notification that you have left.