Facebook: How To Temporarily Deactivate Your Account (2023)
Easy to follow tutorial on temporarily disabling your Facebook account. Want to take a break from Facebook without permanently deleting your account? Learn how to deactivate your Facebook account temporarily now!
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Steps:
- Don’t mistake disabling your account, for deleting it, disabling your account is not permanent. If you are looking for how to permanently delete your account, there is a link to that tutorial in the video description.
- To start, open the Facebook app and then tap on the menu button at the top or bottom right of the screen.
- Scroll down and tap ‘settings and privacy’ and then tap ‘settings’.
- Under the ‘account’ heading, select ‘personal and account information’.
- Choose ‘account ownership and control’.
- Then tap ‘deactivation and deletion’.
- Select ‘deactivate account’ and then tap ‘continue to account deactivation’.
- You will need to enter your password to continue.
- Give a reason why you are deactivating your account.
- You can choose to have your account automatically reactivate after a certain amount of days, or you can choose for it to not reactivate automatically.
- Messenger will remain active for your account unless you go and deactivate it in the messenger app.
- You can check the box to not receive facebook notifications while your facebook account is deactivated.
- Tap ‘deactivate my account’
- Your account will now be deactivated, in order to re-activate it, you just have to log in like normal and it will be active again.