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How to Manage Stories and Reels on Facebook

This article is to show you how to manage your Stories and reels through your mobile Facebook app and recommended settings

Updated over a year ago

How to Manage Stories

  • Open the Facebook App

  • Tap menu at the top right corner for Android users or tap your photo at the bottom right for iPhone/iPad

  • Tap the gear icon at the top right next to the magnifying glass

  • Scroll down to audience and visibility section

  • Tap stories

Recommended Settings:

Story Privacy

  • Who can see your stories? Friends

Sharing options

  • Allow others to share your public stories to their own story? Don’t allow

  • Allow others to share your stories if you mention them? Don’t allow

Story archive

  • Save stories to Archive? Drag the white button to the right, once it turns blue it is on.

Stories you muted

  • Muted stories will appear here when you mute or unmute someone's story

How to Manage Reels

  • Tap menu in the top right of Facebook

  • Tap settings, the gear icon in top right corner

  • Scroll down to audience and visibility section

  • Tap Reels

Recommended Settings:

  • Allow others to share your reels to their stories? No

  • Reels default Audience: Friends

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