I know that’s sort of like running a 5K just to visit the neighbor next-door, but I’m afraid that’s the only way to do it. Anything you have shared with friends of friends or the general public will change to Friends only. What you’ll have to do is first delete those photos from Facebook altogether and then re-post them. Go to Settings and Privacy > Privacy > Limit the audience for posts you've shared with friends of friends or Public and click on Limit past posts > Limit Old Posts to make the changes. You can hide those previous profile pictures from everyone but your friends, but you can’t do it by changing a setting. In addition to your current profile picture, every other picture that you’ve ever used as a profile picture in the past is also visible to every Facebook user.
You could use a photo of your favorite flower, your favorite beach or even a portrait of your pet.įacebook really wants your profile photo the be a picture of you, but millions of folks use other types of photos without ever suffering any consequences whatsoever. That will make it pretty much useless to anyone who might want to steal it and alter it in some way.Ģ – Change your profile photo to a photo of something else. Now all of the above being said, there are a couple of things you can do to discourage scammers from stealing your profile photo and using it for nefarious means:ġ – You can change it to a really small thumbnail-sized photo. There’s no way to hide them from any other Facebook user short of either deactivating your account or “going nuclear” and deleting it outright. The settings dealing with the privacy of profile pictures has changed over years, and unfortunately it’s no longer possible to hide them.Īnyone and everyone who can view your Timeline and About page can also view both your profile picture and cover photo. It would be great if Facebook would allow you to hide your profile picture from the public. Rick’s answer: I agree with you Liz, and your concern is certainly a valid one. How can I make it so that only the people who are actually friends with me on Facebook can see my profile picture? I finally got my settings changed to where it hides my posts and the rest of my pictures from strangers, but my profile picture is always visible even with its privacy set to “Only Me”.
Lord only knows what they could do with it if they ever managed to steal one of them. I don’t like that because I don’t want all the stalkers and scammers that are on Facebook to be able to see any of my pictures. 0:00 / 1:49 Intro Facebook Featured Photos Settings Howfinity 631K subscribers Subscribe 151K views 1 year ago Facebook has a feature photo section that allows you to highlight photos. Question from Liz: I recently found out that everyone who looks at my Facebook can see my profile picture.
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