How to Hide Reels on Facebook on Desktop or Mobile

Quick Tips

• See a Reel you don’t like? Tap the three dots (…) and select Hide on desktop and mobile Facebook.
• Adjust privacy settings in your Reels creation menu to control who sees your Reels.

How to Remove Reels on Facebook

Note: For demonstration, we will go with a desktop.

Step 1: Open Facebook on your PC or mobile device. Scroll down until you see the Reels and short videos section.

Step 2: Tap or click on the three-dot icon at the top left of the section. 

Step 3: Select Hide.

That’s it. Irrespective of whether you are accessing the settings from a desktop or mobile device, you have successfully removed or hidden reels on Facebook. 

How to Hide Your Facebook Reels

Step 1: Open the Facebook app on your Android or iOS device.

Step 2: From the top, tap the + button and choose Reel.

Step 3: Now, select the video you want to upload as a Reel, make the necessary edits, and tap Next.

Step 4: When you finish editing and reach the New Reel page, tap the option below Who can see this?

Step 5: In the Reels audience page, select Friends to prevent anyone who isn’t your friend from seeing it.

Step 6: You can set the selected audience as the default for all future Reels by checking the box for Set as default audience for reels.

Step 7: Tap Save default audience.

Mind you, if you didn’t set a default audience, the Save default audience button would not be visible. You can tap on the back arrow for the settings to get saved. 

Step 8: Finally, tap on Share now.

How to Hide a Reel That You Don’t Like

Step 1: Open the Facebook app on your Android or iOS device.

Step 2: Go to the Watch tab from the top navigation bar.

Step 3: Under the Watch tab, tap on Reels.

Step 4: Go to the Reel you didn’t like and tap on the three-dot icon.

Step 5: From the bottom sheet, choose Hide reel.

Note: You can also select an alternative, such as Show more or Show less. As it sounds, this option will enable Facebook’s algorithm to push more or fewer reels of the same sort.

There you go. You have quickly and efficiently hidden the reels you didn’t like. 

This was the case when you didn’t like the content of a particular page or a person. If you don’t want to follow or see content from a person or page on your Facebook Reels, move to the following method.

How to Block Reels From People or Pages on Facebook

Blocking reels from a person or a page on Facebook follows the same trajectory as blocking someone on Facebook. The steps are the same for both desktop and mobile.

Note: We are assuming that you are already in the Reels section.

Step 1: From the Reels page on your mobile or desktop, tap on the page or person’s name.

Step 2: Click the three-dot icon.

Step 3: From the drop-down, choose Block.

Step 4: In the pop-up, click or tap to Confirm your choice. 

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