How to make your profile private on Facebook

Open up Facebook on your device and make sure you are logged into your account.

Click on the small arrow that sits in the top right-hand corner, it is near the profile button.

Once you have clicked on the small arrow, from the drop-down menu select Settings and privacy.

Choose Settings from the new drop-down menu to continue the process.

Once you choose Settings, you will be taken to a new page. To come out of General, go to the left-hand side of the page and from the menu click on Privacy.

Now you are in the Privacy menu, you can edit your privacy settings. We chose to alter the settings that affect the number of people who can see your activity, however, you can also follow these steps for the other privacy options on this page, such as who can send you friend requests, who can look you up, and who can see who you follow. Once you have chosen which settings you want to make private, click on the small blue Edit button that sits on the right side of the menu.

Depending on what your privacy settings already are, your small box may say something different. Ours says Public, but yours may say something else, such as Friends of friends. No matter what the box says, click on it to continue the process.

Click on the More button at the bottom of the drop-down menu to access more settings.

Click the Only me option to ensure that only you can see these settings. Repeat steps six to nine on all the privacy settings that you want no one else to view or access.