Hidden Facebook features to use right away

14 most useful and almost hidden functions to use to become Facebook experts

Facebook is still one of the most used social networks today and, over the years, so many functions have been added that users often don’t see them or don’t use them, often missing out on very interesting tricks.

In the following guide we will show you the Hidden Facebook features and secret tricks to use right away to improve the management of our account, contact new friends, share photos and videos correctly and immediately obtain an enviable level of security and privacy.

1) View photos in full screen

Facebook’s photo viewer has been changed several times in the past from the fixed page with i comments at the bottom of the pop-up with a black background and comments on the side. It is therefore possible to browse the photos of a Facebook album in full screen mode.

In an album, click on an image and hover over the photo until a menu appears at the bottom of the image. Click on “Options” and then press on “View full screen“. To return to normal mode just press the Esc key or the “X” at the top right.

2) Hide applications

The new Facebook applications they interact on the diary by publishing information on what has been done or read. If you don’t want to share your activity on social applications, you need to adjust some settings.

To proceed, click on the profile picture at the top right and take us to the path Settings & Privacy -> Settings -> Apps & Websites and press the Deactivate button to completely deactivate the associated applications.

3) Create a list based on interests

Facebook’s news “lists” (also called Feeds) are a recent innovation that allows you to group news from specific pages or people based on the topic.

So it is possible create a list of recipes if you follow updates from blogs or chefs, technology news, current affairs and so on. To proceed, all we have to do is open the Facebook site, press the button sideways Feed and organize all the news, sites, pages and sources that we have already contacted or that we follow on Facebook.

4) Search on Facebook

Facebook search allows you to search for new people, new pages, new groups and new sources of news or information, without having to go through Google or wait for the right story to appear on the feed.

To learn more we can read the guides above how to search for posts and photos of friends of all time on Facebook and how see private profiles on Facebook.

5) Reposition the photos on the Diary

Every time you post a photo on Facebook, it appears previewed in the diary in a centered position; if the image is large, you can choose which part of the photo to preview.

Click on the pencil at the top right (” buttonedit or Remove“) of the photo to be rearranged that appears in the diary and choose the “Reposition photo“. Using the mouse you can drag the image left or right to find the best position.

6) Hiding from friends on chat

On Facebook Messenger we can go offline for everyone or hide only for some friends who we don’t want to talk to. To avoid being called, you can hide by going offline.

To do this, you must click on the three dots next to the section Contacts on the right of the social network, click on Activity status and turn off the right switches; we can turn off the activity for all friends, show the activity only to some friends or be offline only for some friends, so as to adapt to our privacy needs.

7) Check and approve Tags

For each tag that is placed by a friend on a photo or in a post, before it is published, it must be approved by the person cited.

To adjust this item let’s take the path Settings and privacy -> Settings -> Profile and tagging and activate the switch next to the entries Check the posts they tag you in before the post appears on your profile e Want to control the tags people add to your posts before those tags appear on Facebook?

To learn more we can read the guide to tag control in Facebook.

8) Hide unwanted content from the home page

What appears in the Facebook news feed can be controlled, to some extent. From the homepage, click on the pencil icon that appears when you hover over the “News” on the left column and change the settings.

From the small window it is possible to hide messages from some people from the central news flow and also some applications and some page updates.

About how sort news in Facebook and how hide what we don’t care about and clean up Facebook I have written two simple and dedicated guides.

9) Create a secret group

You can create a group “secret” of Facebook that only the founder and his friends can see. The secret group is a fun way to create a private forum, a circle where you can share content only with a select few.

To start the secret group, click on “Create Group“from the section”Groups” in the left column of the home page. After giving the group a name, choose the icon from the drop-down menu, add friends and then select the “secret“.

10) Upload high quality images

When you upload a photo to Facebook, by default it is not high resolution and is scaled down.

If you want to publish your photos at the best possible quality, you need to create a new album, upload your photos and select the option below “High quality“.

11) Temporarily disappear from Facebook

At any time it is possible deactivate Facebook and disappear as if the account and profile had never existed, in order to suspend all activity, only temporarily.

Just log in to your account to restore everything and go back to how you left it.

12) Share Colorful Posts

If we gods have noticed too colorful posts with large writing on Facebookthose are generated by the Facebook app on mobile.

13) Set profile privacy

Anyone who cares about privacy when posting or sharing something on Facebook is right to check your privacy settingstherefore choosing to show the contents only to some people, only to friends or to a small group of trusted friends.

For further information we can read the Facebook privacy guide come on how to create different lists of Facebook friends with different visibility.

14) Prevent hacker attacks

Facebook is still one of the sites most attacked by hackers todaywho try to steal access to profiles to pass themselves off as us and copy friend lists, share inappropriate things or use our profile to spammer sites and products.

To avoid theft of your Facebook profile It is very important to enable two-factor authentication and access monitoring from new locationsall essential tools when using a social network like Facebook.

On this topic we invite you to read the articles on how to enable Facebook login with security code and access approval come on how to avoid hacked account on Facebook.

Conclusions

All these tricks might already be known to Facebook experts or to those who always follow the latest news and update, but many users don’t even know the existence of all these functionstherefore using Facebook at reduced capacity (or with an account easily exposed to hackers and scams).

If we receive an account ban or are no longer able to log in due to a hacker, we suggest you read our guides on how to recover lost, stolen or compromised Facebook account come on how to log into Facebook without password if your account has been hacked.