This Itechguide teaches you how to untag someone on Facebook. The guide covers steps to untag someone on Facebook from the Facebook App or a PC.
When you tag someone on Facebook you’re simply saying “I was with this person when I posted this”.
Option 1: Untag Someone via the Facebook App
Most people access Facebook from the App on their smartphone. For those users, here are the steps to untag someone on Facebook:
- Open the Facebook App on your phone and login with your account.
- Then, on the top right of the App, click the search icon.
- When the search box opens, type a word or 2 that is contained in the post you previously tagged the person on. To display just Facebook Posts in your results, click POSTS.
- Finally, from the displayed results, locate the post and click it.
- When the post opens, on the top right, click the highlighted dots. Then click Edit post.
- Then click Tag people – this is beneath the post editor.
- All the people you tagged in the post will be listed on top. To untag someone, uncheck the blue tick beside the person’s name (labelled 1 below). To tag new people, check the box beside each new person you want to tag. When you finish, click DONE (3).
Option 2: Untag Someone Using a PC
If you use Facebook from a PC, here are the steps to untag someone on Facebook:
- Open Facebook.com from a browser on your PC. Then login to your Facebook account.
- With the search box (top left) search for the post you want to untag someone from.
- On the search results page, to ensure that only Facebook posts are displayed, click Posts.
- Then from the search results, click on the post you want untag someone from to open it.
- The post will open in a Pop up window. To edit the post, on the top right of the pop up click the highlighted dots. Then click Edit post.
- When the post opens for editing click Tag friends.
- Then for each person you want to untag from the post, click the x beside the person’s name. When you finish, click Save – see the second image below…
No matter your reason for wanting to untag someone on Facebook one of the steps in this guide should work for you.
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