Do you also want to hide the number of likes or reactions on your or someone else’s facebook posts? If you also don’t want other’s to see the number of likes and reactions, then you are in the right place. Facebook has an inbuilt feature that allows user to hide the number of reaactions on your or other’s post that appears in the News Feed.
This guide explains the steps to hide how many people have reacted on your posts in a simple step by step tutorial using both mobile devices and desktop browsers.
Hide Reactions or Likes Count on Facebook Posts
Facebook provides the option to hide how many people have reacted to your as well as other’s posts on Facebbok. This is how you can get it done:
Using Mobile Application (Android & iPhone)
Step 1: Open the Facebook app on your mobile and log in to your account.
Step 2: Tap the menu icone (three horizontal lines) in the upper-right corner.
Step 3: Go to Settings under Settings & Privacy.
Step 4: Scroll down to Reaction Preference and tap on it.
Step 5: Under “Reaction Preferences”, you would see two options:
- On posts from others
- On your posts
Step 6: If you don’t want people to see if you have reacted to other’s post, then turn on “On posts from others” and if you want to hide the number of likes on your posts, then turn on “On your posts”.
Unfortunately, Facebook doesn’t have the option to hide the reaction counts on individual posts, you can only or unhide the reaction counts for all posts at once.
The steps and process to hide the reaction counts on Facebook posts is the same if you are using a mobile app or mobile browser.
What does Reaction Preferences Does?
As stated above, Facebook provides two options under reaction preferences to hide the reaction counts and we would understand both the options to be clear on how it works.
On other people’s posts: If you turn on this feature, you would not be able to see the number of reaction count on other’s post but would still be see who see who has reacted to other’s post.
On your posts: If you turn on this faeture, the number of likes and reaction count would be hidden from your posts to to other users. However, you can still see the number of reactions on your post and the user who has reacted to your post.
Hide Reaction count using a PC or a Laptop
If you are a user who uses a PC or a Laptop to access your facebook account, the steps to hide the number of rection counts is simple and easy too like that of the mobile app.
Step 1: Open your browser on your PC and log into your account.
Step 2: Click on the downward arrow button in the upper right corner of the screen.
Step 3: Go to Settings & privacy and click on it.
Step 4: Select News Feed Preferences or News Feed Options.
Step 5: Click Reaction Preferences.
Step 6: Turn on the the toggle button to hide the number of reactions to your posts or those of other users as per your requirement.
If you later want to unhide the reaction counts, you can simply turn off this feature following the same steps as mentioned above.
How to Hide Reactions On Facebook Profile Picture
Profile pictures on Facebook are also a part of Facebook posts, hence doesn’t have a different option to hide the likes cont. If you want to hide the number of likes and reactions on your profile picture, just enable the hide options for your posts.
The steps mentioned above in this posts, would help you hide the reactions on your profile picture like that of any other normal posts.
Important Things to Know
Here are several things that you sould know before making the changes to the reaction settings for your Facebok profile:
- Only the number count of reactions would be hidden and users can still see who reacted to posts.
- You can always get back the reaction count when you want as they are not permanently remove.
- You would still be able to react on posts, similarly users would also be able to react on your posts.
- There is no separate option to hide likes or reactions count for individual posts, the settings is applied for all the posts.
Final Thoughts
The Facebook’s Reaction Preferences feature provides its users an option to control the engagement information that they can see. If you want to hide the number of reactions on your posts or on the posts of others on your feed, you can always do that in just a few clicks. The reaction settings can be changed from both the Facebook mobile app as well as Facebook webiste on browser.
Hiding the reaction count is a very important fature if you want to stay out of competition of likes on Facebook.
