If you have been using Facebook long enough, you most probably know that your friends may tag you on their posts. These posts automatically appear on your Facebook timeline too.
However, some of the users use tagging for bad wrong reasons. Some just tags every of their friend in a picture so it would get more engagement. Others do it just to promote their products or services.
What should you do if you don’t want to be tagged and don’t want these posts to appear in your timeline?
In this article you are going to learn how to untag yourself from Facebook posts and how to prevent others from tagging you in the future.
Let’s get started!
How to untag yourself from Facebook posts?
If you just got tagged in a Facebook post and would like your tag to be removed, then follow the steps below:
- Go to Facebook.com and login to your Facebook profile if you haven’t already;
- Click on the menu (arrow) icon at the top right corner. From the drop-down menu select “Activity log”;
- From the filters tab on the left, select “Posts you’re tagged in”;
- Find the post you want to untag yourself and click on the edit icon at the right corner;
- From the drop-down menu select “Report/Remove tag”;
- Select “It’s spam” and click “Continue”. Afterwards, select “Remove tag” and click “Done”.
Congratulations, you have successfully untagged yourself from Facebook post. Keep in mind that your tag has been removed, however, this photo is still visible to the audience it’s shared with.
If you think that this post violates your rights, then you should ask the person who posted it to take it down. If the person rejects to take it down, then you can report it to Facebook explaining how this post violates your rights.
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How to prevent others from tagging you (manual approval)?
If you are being constantly tagged by friends on different Facebook posts, you can tweak your tagging settings so that others couldn’t automatically tag you in their posts.
This feature works the following way – whenever someone wants to tag you in their Facebook post, you will need to manually approve it before your tag appears on that picture.
This feature prevents you from being tagged on random pictures where you wouldn’t like to be tagged in after all.
Here’s how to do this:
- Go to Facebook.com and login to your Facebook profile if you haven’t already;
- Click on the menu (arrow) icon at the top right corner. From the drop-down menu select “Settings”;
- Click on “Timeline and tagging” from the menu on the left;
- Under the “Review” tab find “Review tags that people add to your posts before the tags appear on Facebook?”, click on “Edit” and select “Enabled”. Done!
Now you will need to manually review each tag before it is added to Facebook post. If you wouldn’t like to be tagged on certain post, then you will be able to simply deny the request.
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I hope that you were able to easily untag yourself from Facebook posts. If you have any more questions, leave a comment below!
