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Feeling embarrassed by that Facebook photo from your younger days? No worries, you can e'er delete any of your uploaded photos from Facebook. We'll show you how.

On Facebook, you can delete both your individual photos and your photograph albums. Once you lot've deleted them, yous can't restore them. So, only delete the items that you really don't wish to keep anymore. If y'all want to keep a local copy of your photos, brand sure you download your photos from Facebook first.

The procedure of deleting photos is pretty much the same on both desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chromebook) and mobile (iPhone, iPad, and Android). Nosotros'll use the Facebook website on a desktop for the demonstration.

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Delete Individual Photos on Facebook

To brainstorm deleting individual photos from your account, launch a web browser on your reckoner and access the Facebook site. Log in to your Facebook business relationship if yous haven't already.

On the Facebook site, in the meridian-right corner, click your proper name.

Facebook opens your contour page. Here, from the tabs bar below your proper name, click the "Photos" tab.

In the "Photos" tab, click the "Your Photos" subtab. This opens the page where your uploaded photos are displayed.

Select "Your Photos" from "Photos" on the profile page on Facebook.

On the "Your Photos" screen, find the photo to delete. Then, in the top-correct corner of that photo, click the pencil icon.

From the menu that opens upon clicking the pencil icon, select "Delete Photo."

A "Delete Photograph" prompt volition open up. Here, click the "Delete" button.

Select "Delete" in the "Delete Photo" prompt on Facebook.

And your selected photograph is now deleted from your Facebook business relationship!

If you're on an iPhone or Android phone, you take the option to majority delete your Facebook posts.

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Delete Photo Albums on Facebook

To delete a photo album (which deletes all the photos in that anthology) in your business relationship, launch Facebook and access your profile page. On this page, click the "Photos" tab and and then choose the "Albums" subtab.

On the "Albums" page, observe the anthology to delete. Then, in the top-right corner of that album, click the iii dots.

From the three-dots card, select "Delete Album."

Select "Delete Album" from the three-dots menu for a photo album on Facebook.

You'll run into a "Delete Anthology" prompt. Hither, click the "Delete Album" pick.

And your selected photo album is gone for good.


Did you know you can archive your Facebook posts instead of permanently deleting them? This keeps your posts accessible to y'all while hiding them from others.

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