On Facebook you can do lots of things like you can share your photo, videos, articles, reels, and so on with the world. Facebook is one of the most used social media platform around the world. Your friends can also share your content. But sometimes you don’t want your facebook friends to share your content. In this guide, we will show you step by step on how to remove the share button on facebook posts in 2023.
Before we begin the process you must know that if your profile is public, then you cant remove the share button. So you must set profile locked to remove the share button for your facebook friends.
Open facebook app go to settings & privacy and then tap on settings. Now under audience & visibility tap on profile tagging. Then tap on off next to allow others to share your post to stories. Now go to your post and change your audience to friends.
Read the full guide to follow the process easily for iPhone, android, and PC.
Note: You must update your facebook app to the latest version to use this feature. So you easily remove share button.
How to remove the share button on facebook posts on iPhone
Follow these steps to remove the share button on facebook on iPhone.
1. Open facebook app and login to your account
2. Now at the bottom right corner tap on the Menu.
3. Then go to Settings & privacy and tap on Settings.
4. Now under Audience and visibility tap on Profile and tagging.
5. Then Click on Allow others to share your post to stories and tap on Off.
6. Now come to your profile page and select the post you want to remove the share button.
7. On that post tap on the three dots and click on Change Audience and select Friends.
Now your friends will not see the share button. In that place, they will see a message button in the place of share button.
How can I remove the share button on my posts on Android
1. Open Facebook app
2. Log in to your account and at the top right corner tap on your profile pic with small three lines.
3. Now Go to Settings & Privacy and then tap on Settings.
4. Then under Audience and visibility tap on Profile and tagging.
5. Now Disable the option next to Allow others to share your posts to their story.
6. Then come back to your profile and select the post you want to remove the share button.
7. On that post tap on three dots and tap on Edit privacy and select friends.
Now your friends will not be able to share your post. They will see the Message button instead of Share button.
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How do I remove the share button on Facebook posts on pc
1. Open any web browser.
2. Visit facebook website and log in to your account.
3. Now at the top right corner tap on your profile picture.
4. Then go to Settings & privacy and tap on Settings.
5. Now from the left sidebar tap on Profile and tagging.
6. Under Profile and tagging toggle off next to Allow others to share your posts to their stories.
7. Then come back to your profile and select the post you want to remove the share button and tap on three dots from the post.
8. Now tap on Edit Audience and select friends from the list of options and tap on Done.
Now share button is removed for your friends, they will see the Message button in that place.
You can also select other options also like Friends except this option will not show the share button to the selected friends.
Another option is specific friends which will show the share button to the selected friends. In Custom Friends you can include to show and exclude to hide share button to any friends from this option at one place.
If you select Only me option then it will hide the post for everyone.
FAQ
Go to settings and tap on Profile and tagging and turn off the option for others to share your post to their stories select the post you want to remove the share button and tap on three dots select Edit Audience and tap on friends and tap on Done.
Because the user changed the settings of the post from edit audience and selected one of the options from friends, friends except, specific or custom friends.
On the post tap on three dots then tap on Edit Audience and now select any option from the list.
If your profile is public then you must set your profile to Locked then you have to go to settings and tap on profile and tagging and disable the option next to Allow users to share post to their stories and then come to your post and Edit Audience and select the option to Friends and tap on Done.
Conclusion:
Removing the share button from your Facebook post is really simple to do. We guide you on how to remove the share button on Facebook posts. You must set your profile to locked and then change the settings from profile and tagging to stop others from sharing your post to their story and then Edit Audience for the particular post.