{"id":7923,"date":"2023-04-11T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.joindeleteme.com\/blog\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:13:18","slug":"phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/blog\/phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Your Phone Number Unsearchable on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block uk-card-default uk-padding\" style=\"font-size:16px\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h4>Table of Contents<\/h4><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#how-to-make-your-phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook-facebook-website\">How to Make Your Phone Number Unsearchable on Facebook (Facebook Website)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#how-to-make-your-phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook-facebook-app\">How to Make Your Phone Number Unsearchable on Facebook (Facebook App)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#wait-its-not-just-facebook\">Wait\u2014It\u2019s Not Just Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever given your phone number to Facebook, anyone can find your profile by running a Facebook search on that number. And we mean anyone with a Facebook account\u2014not just your friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2718637\/facebook-s-phone-search-can-be-abused-to-find-people-s-numbers--researchers-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploit Facebook<\/a> by connecting hundreds of thousands of phone numbers with their owners\u2019 names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Facebook lets anyone find you through a reverse phone number lookup by default, you can prevent it from happening by changing your settings. Here&#8217;s how to make your phone number unsearchable on Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-make-your-phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook-facebook-website\">How to Make Your Phone Number Unsearchable on Facebook (Facebook Website)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>. Log into your Facebook account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>. Click on your profile picture icon on the upper right-hand side and select \u201cSettings &amp; privacy\u201d and \u201cSettings.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Step 3<\/strong>. <\/strong>On the left-hand side, click \u201cPrivacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Step 4<\/strong>. <\/strong>Scroll down to \u201cHow people find and contact you.\u201d Next to \u201cWho can look you up using the phone number you provided?\u201d click \u201cEdit\u201d and select \u201cOnly me.\u201d Click \u201cClose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re done! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you\u2019ve limited Facebook\u2019s reverse phone lookup so that no one can find you through your number on the social media platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless necessary, it\u2019s a good idea to avoid giving your phone number to any social network, despite them repeatedly asking for it for \u201csecurity purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-make-your-phone-number-unsearchable-on-facebook-facebook-app\">How to Make Your Phone Number Unsearchable on Facebook (Facebook App)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Log in to the Facebook app on your iPhone, Android, or iPad.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2. <\/strong>Click on your profile picture icon on the upper right-hand side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> Click the settings icon on the upper right-hand side.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4. <\/strong>Scroll down to \u201cAudience and Visibility\u201d and click \u201cHow people can find and contact you.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5.<\/strong> Click \u201cWho can look you up using the phone number you provided?\u201d click \u201cEdit\u201d and select \u201cOnly me.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wait-its-not-just-facebook\">Wait\u2014It\u2019s Not Just Facebook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Data broker websites also let people find information about you using your phone number (or name\/address).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data brokers are companies that collect personal data about you from various sources (public records, social media, etc.), compile this data into a comprehensive profile, and sell it to anyone who wants it.&nbsp;Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/blog\/what-are-data-brokers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guide on what data brokers are <\/a>and what they do with your personal information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/help.joindeleteme.com\/hc\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data broker opt-out guides<\/a> that walk you through how to remove your name from these databases. Or, let us <a href=\"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/privacy-protection-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do it for you<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever given your phone number to Facebook, anyone can find your profile by running a Facebook search on that number. And we mean anyone with a Facebook account\u2014not just your friends.&nbsp; Security researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to exploit Facebook by connecting hundreds of thousands of phone numbers with their owners\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joindeleteme.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}