How to Make Your Facebook Profile and Posts Public

To make your Facebook profile and posts public, choose Public for future posts, update older posts individually, and change the audience for the profile details you want to share. Posts, profile information, stories, reels, and followers have separate controls. Public content can generally be seen by people outside Facebook. Sign in only through Facebook’s own app or website, and never share a code, password, or remote access with someone who contacts you.

Choose Public for new and future posts

On desktop, click your profile picture, then open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and visibility, click Posts, then click the audience control beside Who can see your future posts?. Select Public and click Done. Existing posts keep their audiences.

On Android or iPhone, tap Menu at the top left, then open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and visibility, tap Posts > Who can see your future posts?. Tap See all if needed to display additional audiences, then tap Public. Facebook says the choice saves immediately.

For one new post on desktop, open the composer at the top of Feed or your profile, click the audience selector below your name, and choose Public. Finish composing and click Post. On iPhone, open the composer, tap the audience selector below your name, choose Public, and tap Done before finishing and publishing the post. Choosing an audience for one post does not replace your default.

A locked profile restricts sharing and makes past public posts visible to friends only. If yours is locked, review how Facebook profile locking affects privacy before changing individual audiences. Do not assume that unlocking will automatically make all your content public.

Change the audience of older posts

On desktop, click your profile picture, then your name, and find a post you want to make public. Click the audience selector beside its date or time and select Public. Repeat for other posts you control on your profile.

In the Android or iPhone app, open your profile and locate the post. Tap Options at its top right, choose Edit Privacy, and select Public. On iPhone, tap Done to finish.

For older content that is hard to locate, use desktop Activity Log. Click your profile picture, then open Settings & Privacy > Activity Log. Under Your Facebook activity, open Posts > Your posts, photos and videos, optionally filtering by Date.

Click Options beside the item, then select Edit Privacy where available and choose Public. Audience editing depends on the content type; for photos controlled by an album, change the album audience using the steps below. Work through each item you want to make public individually.

Publish the profile details you want to share

On desktop, click your profile picture, then your name, and open About. Click Edit or Add beside the information, choose Public in its audience control, and click Save. Repeat for each editable field you want visible publicly.

For contact details on desktop, open your profile > About > Contact and Basic Info. Click Add information or Edit beside the relevant field, click its current privacy setting, choose Public, and click Save. Facebook is rolling out changes to profile information, so your sections may differ. If they do, look for the editable field and its audience control in About.

The details displayed in Intro are public. On desktop, open your profile and find Intro beneath your profile picture. Click Edit Details, add or change the information you want displayed, and click Save.

If your profile has Featured, you can display public copies of photos or stories. On desktop, open your profile and, in Intro, click Edit Featured > Add New. Select the photos or stories, click Next, then click Save. The originals keep their original locations and audiences.

For a guided review, click your profile picture on desktop and open Settings & privacy > Privacy Checkup. Open Who can see what you share and review your profile-information and post audiences. Choose Public for the items you want to share broadly.

Make photos and albums public

To change an individual photo on desktop, open your profile > Photos > Your photos. Open the photo, click Options > Edit post audience, and choose Public. This applies to your photos with individual audience controls, including eligible older profile and cover photos.

Most photos uploaded as part of an album use the album’s audience instead. On desktop, open your profile > Photos > Albums, open an album you posted, and click Options > Edit album. Click its current privacy setting, select Public, and click Save. Special albums may require you to change eligible photos individually.

Set story and reel audiences separately

On iPhone, add a photo or video to your story, then tap Settings at the bottom left and open Privacy. Select Public, tap Save, and publish the story. On desktop, add your story content, click Settings beside Your story at the top left, select Public, and publish.

A public story can be seen by anyone on Facebook or Messenger. The audience applies to the story being shared; previously shared stories keep their audiences. Facebook warns that older app versions may behave differently, so check the audience when sharing.

For future reels on desktop, click your profile picture and open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and visibility, click Reels, then click the current audience beside Who can see your reels?. Select Public and click Save. This default also covers future reels shared from your Instagram account.

To change an existing reel on desktop, click your profile picture, then your name, and locate the reel post. Click the audience selector at the top of the post and choose Public.

Enable public followers with pro mode

If your profile is eligible, you can enable public following with pro mode. On desktop, open your profile, click Options below the cover photo, and select Turn on pro mode. Click Turn on to confirm.

On iPhone, tap Menu, then your name, and open Options above your photo. Select Turn on pro mode, then tap Turn on. This changes the audience under Who can follow me to Public, while existing profile content keeps its audience.

Facebook is removing the older standalone public-follower option from default profiles, so use pro mode for public following if your profile is eligible. Some profiles may temporarily retain public followers without pro mode during the transition. Pro mode adds tools to your existing profile rather than creating a Page.

Review friends lists and posts from other people

On desktop, click your profile picture and open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and visibility, click How people find and contact you > Who can see your friends list?, then choose Public. This controls the Friends section on your profile; other people control their own friends lists.

For posts friends place on your profile, click your profile picture on desktop and open Settings & privacy > Settings > Profile and tagging. Select Who can see what others post on your profile?, choose Public if offered, and click Done. Available audiences depend on your profile’s restrictions, so choose from the options Facebook displays.

In the same Profile and tagging settings, open Who can see posts you're tagged in on your profile?. Choose Public if offered. This controls whether tagged posts appear on your profile. A separate setting in Profile and tagging, When you're tagged in a post, who do you want to add to the audience of the post if they can't already see it?, controls who is added to a tagged post’s audience.

Adjust discovery and access for blocked people

To let external search engines link to your profile, click your profile picture on desktop and open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and Visibility, click How People Find and Contact You. Turn on Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile?. This changes discovery, while private posts keep their audiences.

Unblocking restores access to your public posts, and Facebook says you cannot block that profile or Page again for a few days. If you want to restore that access, you can unblock someone on Facebook through your blocking settings.

On desktop, click your profile picture and open Settings & privacy > Settings. Under Audience and visibility, click Blocking, then click Edit beside Block profiles and Pages. Click See your blocked list, click Unblock beside the relevant entry, and click Confirm. Private posts keep their existing audiences.

Check your public profile with View As

On desktop, click your profile picture, then your name, and open Options below your name > View As. Inspect the profile information and posts visible to nonfriends, then click Exit View As when finished. This checks visibility without changing your audience settings.

If something you intended to share is missing, return to that item’s audience control and review its setting. When you are ready to share your profile address, find and copy your Facebook profile URL.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Limit Past Posts make all my older posts public?

Limit Past Posts narrows older audiences to Friends. It has no one-click reversal, so use individual audience controls when you want older posts to be public.

Why does a supervised Teen Account need approval for a public audience?

Supervised Teen Accounts require parent or guardian approval for less-protective settings unless permission to manage settings independently has been granted. These protections are rolling out individually, so restrictions can differ between accounts.

Do additional Facebook profiles share the same audience settings?

Additional profiles have separate audience settings. Some Privacy Checkup settings are available only from your main profile.

Does posting in a public group make my personal profile public?

Publishing in a public group or on a Page does not change your personal profile’s audiences. Those posts are public, while your profile content keeps its separate audience settings.

Do public comment and like permissions change who can see my posts?

Those permissions control interaction rather than visibility. To change who can see a post, adjust the post’s audience.

Does changing contact information in Accounts Center make it public?

To choose who can see contact information on your profile, use the field’s audience control under About on desktop. Updating the contact information in Accounts Center alone is a separate task from choosing its profile audience.