On the Facebook iPhone app, you can block friends to prevent them from sending friend requests. It’s a useful security feature that can be done temporarily or permanently, and you can always unblock someone if needed.
This type of setting blocks only people’s events, Groups, conversations, and Friend requests.
“Here are the steps to block Facebook friends on your iPhone or iPad:”
- Launch the Facebook app on your iPhone.
- Tap on Profile Menu Located at the Bottom of the Right Corner.
- Tap on Settings & Privacy
- Select Settings.
- Scroll down the screen to Tap on Blocking under the Audience and Visibility Section.
- Click on Add to Blocked List. “Once you’ve blocked someone, that person can no longer see things you post on your Timeline, tag you, invite you to events or groups, start a conversation with you or add you as a friend. This doesn’t include apps, games or groups you both participate in.“
- Now, Search with a name that you want to block in the search results, you can see all the people from Facebook. (Who are not in your account and added to your account)
- So You can block each of your friends manually by tapping on the block button in front of the name
- In the confirmation pop-up, click on Block again. (what happens? Friend will no longer be able to See your post, Tag you, Invite you to events or groups • Message you, Add you as a friend)
Note: Before blocking, you can visit friends’ profiles by tapping on their names.
Verify and finally blocked, Now, it will be automatically added to the blocked list.
Steps To Unblock Someone on Facebook
Simply follow the steps above to access the blocked list on the Facebook app., then go with the given below showing screen to unblock a friend.
Unblock is also easy by tapping on the Unblock button.
If you didn’t find an option to block Facebook friends on your iPhone, then share it with us. It Might be that the app update will change the Facebook app UI; kindly touch with us for more tricks on Facebook.
