How to lock your Facebook profile via Mobile App or Desktop

Facebook profile locking ensures that people who are not your friends can only view your profile.

Want to add more privacy to your Facebook account by locking your profile? By locking your profile, people who are not on your Facebook friend list will only see a limited view of the profile. A locked profile timeline will only show photos and posts, profile pictures and cover photos, stories, and new posts to people who are on the friend list. Also, your 'public' posts will no longer be public and will only be visible to friends. If you want to know how to lock your Facebook profile read the full article.

If you want to lock your Facebook profile, you can do so from either the mobile app or your browser. However, the desktop version of Facebook does not have the option to lock your profile. The solution is there. Also, this feature is limited to the Android app. Read on to find out how you can lock your Facebook profile.

How to Lock Facebook Profile via mobile app

Follow these steps to lock your Facebook profile or account via the Android mobile application.

1. Open the Facebook app and tap on your profile
2. Tap the three-dot menu icon next to ‘Add to Story'
3. Here, you should see a Lock Profile option, tap on it
4. The next page will give you a brief on how it works with an option to Lock Your Profile at the bottom, tap on it
5. You should see a pop-up that says ‘You Locked Your Profile', tap on OK

How to Lock a Facebook profile via desktop or laptop

Although there is no direct way to lock your app from the browser, there is a solution you can use if you do not have access to the mobile app:

1. Head to https://www.facebook.com/
2. Click on your profile icon In the URL, replace ‘www' with ‘m' so that the URL now reads ‘m.facebook.com/yourprofilename'
3. This will take you to a mobile version of Facebook on your desktop browser and you should see a three-dot menu next to the Edit Profile option
4. In the three-dot menu, you should see the Lock Profile option, click on it
5. Just like the Android version, this next page will show you how locking works, with an option to Lock Your Profile at the bottom. Click on it
6. Your profile is now locked

iOS users can use Desktop Workaround to lock their profiles or borrow an Android device and follow the steps above.

If you want to unlock your Facebook profile, the steps are the same on both the mobile app and the desktop. Instead of the Lock Profile option, you will now see the Unlock Profile option, tap on it, and press Unlock on the next screen. You will see a brief overview of how to unlock your profile and below you will see an option to unlock your profile, click on it and your profile will be unlocked
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Facebook Profile Lock available country list

In fact, this feature is already available on Facebook, it is not only available in all countries. In Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Philippines, Bangladesh, Mexico, Canada, USA, and many more countries. The menu or key features of this profile do not exist yet. Therefore, some people use VPN apps for this.