Facebook was born as a social network in which to share photographs and every day its users upload millions of images that remain stored on the site forever, at least until someone asks to delete them. By uploading the photos to Facebook we run into a privacy problem, because if there is a photo of us but we have not uploaded it, we will not be able to delete it and it will remain online and visible forever.
To regain control of our privacy in this guide we will show you how to delete photos from Facebook, delete albums and remove tags, so as to avoid problems with unwanted tags or photo albums that we absolutely want to delete.
How to delete photos and albums on Facebook from PC
To delete a single photo uploaded by ourselves to Facebook we can act both from the browser on the PC and from the app for mobile devices.
From the Facebook website, you can log in with our social account, press the top left on the image of our profile, and finally click on the Photo menu.
From this screen, we will see all the photos shared on the social network, from the most recent (top) to the oldest (scrolling down). In addition to our shared photos, we will also find photos in which we have been tagged by our friends or other acquaintances.
To delete a photo that we have uploaded personally, click on the Your photos menu, select the photo to be deleted, click on Options at the bottom (directly below the photo) and then click on Delete this photo.
We repeat the steps for any other photographs we don’t like and want to delete from our account. Once a photo has been deleted from Facebook, it will no longer be recoverable in any way and we will also lose the comments, reactions, memes, and stickers used in the comments to it.
From the same screen we can also delete an entire photo album: let’s go to the Photo menu, press the Album menu, press the three dots on the lower right corner of the chosen album and finally select the Delete album item.
Also in this case the cancellation is final and irrecoverable: all the photos in the album will be deleted forever.
How to delete photos and albums on Facebook from smartphone/tablet
If we want to delete photos from Facebook and delete albums from the Facebook app, just open it, press on our profile image at the top left, scroll the page a bit and press the Photo button.
We press on the photo or on the album that we intend to delete, press on the three dots at the top right, and select the items Delete photos or Delete (in the case of albums).
As already seen on PC, the deletion procedure is irreversible: we will never be able to see or recover the photos that have been deleted with this method.
How to remove tags on photos
Another thing to always keep under control are the tags to the photos taken by friends, which will still appear on our profile and will be viewable by everyone.
Obviously, it is not possible to delete photos uploaded by other people, even if we are present in them and even if we do not want them to be visible online to friends; the only thing we can do is ask the author of the photo to remove it or remove the tags.
To remove the tags, let’s go back to the Facebook Photo menu (both from PC and mobile), press on the offending photo (present in the Photo menu where you are), press at the bottom on Options (or at the top right of the menu with the three dots from mobile) and select Remove tag.
The photo will no longer appear in our profile, although it will remain accessible to the uploader, their friends, and anyone else who has been tagged in the same photo.
To avoid being tagged in photos without our consent, let’s go to the Facebook settings (top right on PC or in the dedicated menu on mobile), press on the Diary item and add tags and adjust the items in the Check section, making sure that the two items where the Edit key is present are set to Yes.
By acting in the Tag section we can instead decide whether the photos in which we are tagged will be viewed by our friends or by those who can access our profile: if we often receive “compromising” tags, it is always advisable to set the items in the Tag section to Only me and decide to time to time what to make public and what to show to friends.
If this should be a problem and if the photo is really offensive, we can always ask Facebook to remove the content, even if it will hardly go through if there is really no obvious link to racism, nudism, or other banned things on Facebook.
If you really need to have the photo deleted, the best option is to contact the person who uploaded it and ask them to remove it.
Conclusions
By following these simple tips we can easily delete the photographs we don’t like from Facebook, delete entire albums, and also avoid the embarrassing tags that our friends often enjoy posting on social media, getting in trouble with other friends or relatives.
