Tired of seeing Reels in your Facebook feed? While there's no way to permanently hide all Reels on Facebook yet, you can ask the platform to show you fewer. You can also hide your own Reels and block Reels from others. Here's how.
How to remove Reels on Facebook
To see Reels less often in your feed, launch Facebook on desktop or mobile. Then scroll down your feed until you find a Reel.
In the top corner of the Reel section, click or tap the three-dot menu.
From here, select “Hide.”
And that's it. Now you'll see fewer Reels in your Facebook feed.
Hiding your own Facebook Reels
If you want to remove or hide Reels you created, you can choose an audience based on the Reel or set a default audience for your future Reels.
First, launch the Facebook app on your phone (the option to choose your Reels audience is not available to everyone on the browser version of Facebook).
At the top of your feed, tap the “Reels” tab. Then tap “Create Reel.”
Choose the type of Reel you want to create and record your Reel.
Once you reach the “New Reel” page, in the “Who Can See This?” section, select the current audience.
On the “Shared Roll” page, choose who you want to share your roll with. Your options are:
- Public
- Friends
- Friends Except
To make your selected audience the default for all your future Reels, enable the “Set as Default Audience for Reels” option. Then, tap “Save Default Audience.”
If you haven't set a default audience, then in the top left corner of your screen, tap the back arrow icon or “Done” in the top right corner.
You can then share your Reel.
Stop Facebook Reels from autoplaying
While you can't permanently remove Facebook Reels from your feed, you can stop them from autoplaying. This applies to other videos on Facebook as well.
On your Android phone
Launch the Facebook app and tap the Menu button. This button is located in the top right corner and has a menu (three horizontal lines).
On the “Menu” page that opens, scroll down and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
On the next page, in the “Profile” section at the top, select “Profile Settings.”
Scroll down the page and tap “Media and Contacts.”
You will land on a “Settings” screen. Here, tap “Autoplay.”
On the “Autoplay” page, select the “Never Autoplay Videos” option.
On iPhone
Open the Facebook app on your iPhone and tap the menu (three horizontal lines) in the bottom right corner.
On the following screen, scroll down and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
In the Preferences section, select “Media.”
In the Autoplay section, select “Never Autoplay Videos.”
And you're done. iPhone will never automatically play Reels or other videos on Facebook.
On the desktop
Open a browser and access Facebook. Log in to your account if you haven't already.
Then, in the top right corner of Facebook , click your profile icon or the down arrow icon and select Settings & Privacy > Settings.
From the left sidebar, select “Videos.”
In the right pane, next to “Auto-Play Videos,” click the drop-down menu and select “Off.”
Facebook will automatically save your changes, so you don't need to do anything.
How to block Reels from people or pages on Facebook
If you want to avoid seeing Reels from specific people, block those people. As a result, you won't see any of their content.
To block a page, access that page from a computer or mobile device. Then, click or tap the three dots on the page and select “Block.”
Confirm your choice by selecting “Confirm” (desktop) or “Block” (mobile).
And you're done.
Information source: howtogeek.com
