- While you can't completely delete your Facebook Activity Log in with one click, you can clear your Activity Log on Facebook by removing each individual activity record.
- Your Facebook Activity Log is a record of all of your activity on the platform, from Likes to comments to to new friend connections.
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Whether you spend hours a day posting, liking, and commenting on Facebook or you haven't used the social networking platform in weeks, everything you have done on the site is recorded in your Activity Log in chronological order.
The Activity Log can serve as an easy way to find a post, comment, or other action you want to share or revisit, but at other times you just want to delete a record of certain Facebook activity.
While you can't clear your entire Facebook Activity Log at once, you can delete or remove individual records of activity one at a time.
Here's how to do it.
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How to clear your Activity Log on Facebook
1. Log into your Facebook account on your Mac or PC and click the little downward facing arrow at the top right corner of the screen, then click "Activity Log."
Your Facebook Activity Log is grouped by month, which can speed up the process of finding a post or comment you wish to delete. Steven John/Business Insider2. Scroll to find an item you want to remove, and click on the pencil icon at the end of the row.
3. Depending on the type of activity you're looking to clear, you will have the option to "Delete" if it is your own post or comment; "Unlike" a post; "Unfriend" someone; or change a post's viewing status to hide it from your timeline.
Keep in mind that anything deleted from your Activity Log is also deleted from Facebook. Steven John/Business InsiderIf you're also looking to clear your Facebook Search History, you can click on the word "MORE" beneath the word "Comments" on the left-hand column of the Activity Log page, and then click "Search History."
From a standard Facebook page, clicking the magnifying glass by the search bar will drop down a list of recent searches, and you can delete them one-by-one by clicking the X. Steven John/Business InsiderIn the header that says "Search History" at the center of the screen, click "Clear Searches" and then confirm again in the popup box.
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The Facebook Activity log is a very useful and security feature for all Facebook users. So any time the user can see past activities like comments, Liked photos/ Videos, posts by you, and more. And manage it from the Activity log setting. Facebook designed activity log on a moth or day basis, so the user can easily identify when you’re done this activity on which day by you or others (Your colleagues, Parents, or child).
You can delete an old activity log from FaceBook, in some cases if you like some unwanted photos/ Videos Accidentally, Send a friend request to an unknown person that you can find from the activity log easily and remove it from there as well. Now I explain to you how to find the Activity log on the FaceBook app and delete the old activity log from FaceBook iPhone, iPad.
How do I delete all Activity Log on Facebook App, PC Computer?
No, there isn’t a single button on the Facebook mobile app or even on the web Pc Computers also. You can clear facebook activity by giving the below steps. [scroll the screen and get complete information]. in more, you can delete your Facebook account if you don’t want to use it in the future.
How do I clear my activity log on Facebook on the mobile app iPhone?
- Step #1: Open the Facebook App on your iPhone or iPad. [sing-in by entering User ID and password, if signed-in go to the next step]
- Step
#2. Now Click on Three Horizontal Lines called More
tab.
- Step #3. Click on Settings & Privacy
- Step #4. Tap
Settings
- Step #5. Now scroll the phone screen and Tap Activity Log (View and manage your information and some settings.) appear under the Your FaceBook Information section.
- Step #6. Now you can see Activity Log Page in Facebook App.
As I have mentioned above the user cannot delete all Activity Log on Facebook at a time.
As you can see Year and Category buttons are on the top of the page.
- Year tab– if you click on the year tab- you can see Year by year List. Choose a year to get an activity log of the specific year and month wise.
- Category tab; there is various type of sub-categories into the Category section such
as:
- Posts
- Posts You’re tagged in
- Photos and Videos
- Photos You’re Tagged In
- Other’s Posts To Your Timeline
- Hiden From Timeline
- Likes and Reactions
- Posts and Comments
- Comments
- Profiles
- Added Friends
- Removed Freinds
- Send Freinds requests
- Received Friends Requests
- Life Events
- Archived Stories
- Your Stories
- interactive Videos
- Songs You’ve Listened To
- Articles You’ve Read
- movies and TV
- Games
- Books
- Products You Wanted
- Videos You’ve Watched
- Voice interactions
- Following
- Followers
- Groups
- membership Activity
- posts and Comments
- Your Events
- Event Responses
- Polls
- Search History
- Videos You’ve Search For
- Groups you’ve Searched For
- Location History
- Saved
- your Places
- Active Sessions
- logins and Logouts
- Recognized Devices
- Apps
- Relationships
- Pokes
- Hobbies you’ve Added to your Profile
- Stories Activity
- Volunteering
- Challenges
- Step #7. Now find the activity log that you want to delete on Facebook App.
- Step #8. After getting activity just tap on the Three dots option next to the particular activity log.
- You will get options such as
Edit privacy, Hide From Timeline, Delete,
Step #9. So Tap on Delete to complete wipe from Facebook.
[Note: this is the example of Post category Activity log,
if you will go with other categories apart from the Post activity log then maybe
not get options as shows my given picture.]
- Step #10. Now follow the same steps to another activity log on Facebook.
That’s it!
How to Delete old Activity log from the Facebook timeline on Pc Computer
Note: For the Desktop, You have to follow the same process within your Facebook setting option.
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