What is Facebook Restricted Mode? (your complete guide)
Facebook allows us to connect with all kinds of people. However, there are some people you may not want to contact.
You may decide for a variety of reasons that certain people should no longer interact with your profile, such as friends. In these cases, you may want to put your friend in restricted mode. Let’s take a look at what this means.
What is Facebook Restricted Mode?
When someone is on your restricted list, it means they are still technically your friend. However, they don’t have any permissions for friends. They don’t see any private posts, only public information about you. So if you don’t notify others that something has changed, it’s as if you’re not friends at all.
For more information on restricting someone in your account (or determining if you are restricted), read on.
How do I know if I’m restricted on Facebook?
It’s hard to tell if you’re restricted on Facebook. The site won’t tell you if you’re restricted because the act of restricting an account is private. So you won’t be notified when it happens.
However, there are a few ways you can make an educated guess. For example, if someone goes from posting a lot to not posting at all, you might not see their posts.
You can also look at the top of their profile. If the time gap between the last private post and the top of your profile is large, you may not be able to see your most recent private posts.
Having said that, being restricted still allows you to view public posts. So you can also see if all new posts are public. If it is, you may still not see private posts.
The only way to be sure is to ask the other person or a mutual friend. If a mutual friend can see posts you can’t, it means you’re restricted.
How to turn off restricted on Facebook?
If a friend restricts you, you cannot change the setting. Everyone can control who sees their profile on Facebook – not the other way around. However, if you want to unblock someone and allow them to view your profile, the process is very simple.
Typically, you can go to the profile of the person you want to unblock and tap the friends icon. You can then change the person’s status in your friends list.
If you’re on a computer, you can view your entire friends list. From your newsfeed, select Friends in the left menu. You may need to select View More to access it.
Once in the buddy list, select the client list and click Restricted. You will now have access to the full list of objects you have restricted. To delete someone, just press the “x” next to their name.
Can restricted friends see photos?
Restricted friends can see public posts, but not private posts. In other words, it’s like they’re not your friends at all, although they’ll still appear in your friends list. Plus, they don’t have many ways to tell they’re restricted.
The entire photo is exempt from these rules. If your photo is public, they will be able to see it.
But if it’s private, they won’t be able to see it. If you don’t want them to see it, just change the viewing permission to “Friends”.
Can restricted friends see you online?
If you restrict someone on Facebook, they won’t be able to see if you’re online or if you’ve read any of their messages.
Also, Facebook will send you a warning if you’re going to have a group chat with restricted people.
But, on the other hand, you also can’t see when they’re online. In most cases, it goes both ways.
It’s even more effective if you restrict someone on Messenger. For one thing, you don’t get notifications or ringtones when they message you or call you. You also can’t message or call them.
Also, their chat icon will disappear from your list. So it’s as if they don’t exist at all. However, they will not be informed that they have been restricted.
What’s the difference between a restricted profile and a restricted profile on Facebook?
You can choose to restrict someone’s account or restrict it. The main difference is that you can directly limit exactly what a restricted profile can see.
On the other hand, restricted profiles are basically like they’re not your friends at all. These profiles will only see public posts, not any private posts.
So they’re not actually your friends, except that they still appear in your friends list.
Can restricted friends message me?
Restricted friends can message you as if they were not restricted. However, you won’t see a notification that they have done this. You also cannot reply to them.
The person will not be able to see that you have read their messages or when you are online. They also won’t be notified that they are restricted. So they might find no difference.
From their perspective, it looks like you’re not surfing the Internet or reading their messages.
But, from your perspective, the person looks basically gone. Their chat bubble won’t appear, and there won’t be any notification that they’ve tried to contact you.
To learn more, you can also read our posts on Facebook Instant Articles, Facebook ID and Facebook Impressum.
in conclusion
Individuals on Facebook can restrict certain accounts to which they do not want to see posts. These friends will still appear in their friends list and will not be notified of any changes. However, new private posts will be hidden from them.
In this way, Facebook users can control exactly who viewed their profile without having to unfriend them directly. This is a great feature if you just want your Facebook friends to stop viewing your posts.
