A notification setting — here’s exactly where to find it on every platform Facebook birthday notifications — the daily alerts telling you it’s someone’s birthday, the reminders to post on their timeline, the morning roundup of whose birthday it is today — are useful to some people and noise to others. Turning them off is …
Almost always a session, security, or browser issue — here’s what’s causing it and how to stop it Facebook logging you out repeatedly — every time you close the browser, after a few hours of inactivity, or seemingly at random — is a frustrating problem that almost always has a specific cause. The fix depends …
A straightforward process — here’s how to leave on every platform Being added to a Facebook group chat you don’t want to be in — or simply wanting to leave one you’ve been part of — has a simple solution on every platform. You can leave any group chat you’re in, and the process takes …
Usually a targeting or location data issue — here’s what’s causing it and how to fix it Opening Facebook and finding ads in Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, or any language you don’t use is disorienting and genuinely unhelpful. It’s not random. Facebook’s ad targeting system is reading signals about you — location data, browsing history, account …
A settings change on every platform — here’s exactly where to find it Facebook videos playing automatically as you scroll — with or without sound — is one of the platform’s most consistently complained-about behaviors. It consumes data, drains battery, creates noise in public places, and makes scrolling feel chaotic. Turning it off is a …