How to Hide Story From Someone on Facebook

Method 1. How to Hide a Facebook Story From Someone

You must tweak a setting in the Facebook app to hide all the upcoming stories from specific friends. Follow the steps below.

Step 1: Open Facebook on your iPhone or Android. Tap Menu from the bottom bar.

Step 2: Scroll down and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.

Step 3: Next, tap Stories under Audience and visibility.

Step 4: Go to the Story Privacy menu > select ‘Hide story from’.

Step 5: Search for the person and add them to the story exception.

From now on, whenever you upload a new story on the social platform, selected friends can’t see it in the Facebook or Messenger app. There is another method to access Facebook story privacy options as well.

Step 1: From your Facebook feed menu, select Create story.

Step 2: Tap on Settings gear at the top. This will take you directly to the Story privacy menu.

You can go to the Hide story from option and make your Facebook stories disappear for selected friends.

Method 2. Share Stories With Select Friends Only

This is like Instagram’s Close Friends feature. When you have thousands of friends on Facebook, filtering out dozens of them can be difficult. Instead, you can create a limited group of friends on Facebook and share your stories with them only. Here’s what you must do.

Step 1: Open Facebook > select Create Story.

Step 2: Tap on the Settings icon > go to the Story privacy options.

Step 3: Select Custom and you will find a friends list from the following menu.

Step 4: Select friends with whom you want to share all Facebook stories.

After making changes, your Facebook story will remain invisible to everyone else (except your selected friends from the custom menu).

Notably, if you have enabled the ‘Always share to Instagram’ toggle, your uploaded Facebook stories will be visible to all your Instagram followers. If you want to utilize the same privacy function on Instagram, learn how to hide a story from someone on Instagram.

How to Unhide a Story From Someone on Facebook

If you have a change of heart, you can unhide a story from someone on Facebook.

Step 1: From the Facebook home menu, select Create Story. Tap on the Settings icon → Story privacy.

Step 2: Go to Hide story from and uncheck friends from the list.

Hit Done at the top, and you are good to go with story-sharing with everyone. Alternatively, if you’ve used the second method, add that person’s name to the selected friend’s list.

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