5 Facebook Settings to Fix Your Feed
By Ted · February 27, 2026
Facebook’s Home feed mixes updates from your connections with Suggested posts from accounts you never followed. Viral posts from strangers often receive more prominent placement than updates from friends.
The Feeds tab gives you a chronological view of people, groups, and pages you chose. Unfollow, Favorites, Snooze, and Hide All From Source help narrow it further.
The locations differ slightly between iPhone, Android, and desktop, so each section includes the relevant path.
The Feeds Tab
The Feeds tab shows content from your connections in chronological order. Suggested posts from strangers and engagement-based ranking stay in Home.
On iPhone, tap the hamburger menu icon in the bottom navigation bar and select Feeds. On Android, the navigation bar is at the top of the screen. On desktop, the Feeds link is in the left sidebar. Inside the Feeds menu, separate tabs for All, Favorites, Friends, Groups, and Pages let you filter further. The Friends tab shows a chronological list of only the people you are actually friends with.
Ads still appear because Facebook handles advertising separately. Suggested for You posts from accounts you never chose should disappear. Use the remaining controls to curate your connections or make Home more usable.
Unfollow People & Groups
The Feeds tab removes the algorithm’s suggestions, but it still shows everyone you already follow. If your friends list includes hundreds of dormant connections, even the Feeds tab needs curation.
On desktop: go to your profile → Settings and Privacy → Content Preferences → Unfollow People and Groups. On mobile: hamburger menu → Settings and Privacy → Settings → Content Preferences → Unfollow. The menu shows everyone you follow, and you simply uncheck the box to remove them.
Unfollowing hides someone’s posts while preserving the friendship, and Facebook does not notify them. Blocking removes the friendship and restricts contact. If you simply want a quieter feed, Unfollow avoids the social consequences of Block. Accounts with long friends lists may need to remove a few hundred old follows before the difference becomes obvious.
Favorites
Favorites lets you choose up to 30 friends or pages whose posts receive priority in Home. It also creates a dedicated Favorites view inside Feeds.
Open Feeds, tap Favorites, then Manage Favorites. Reserve the list for people and pages you want to check regularly so their updates are easier to find.
Snooze for 30 Days
Snooze hides someone’s posts for 30 days without notifying them. Tap the three dots on a post and select Snooze for 30 days. In a mobile browser, tap the three dots, choose I don’t want to see this, and then select Snooze.
It works well for seasonal over-posting, a temporarily exhausting topic, or any account you are not ready to unfollow.
The filter expires after 30 days. Facebook does not provide a longer duration, so you must apply it again or switch to Unfollow if you need more time.
Hide All From Source
Snooze addresses people you follow, but the Home feed also surfaces Suggested content from pages and accounts you never asked for. Hide All From Source is the tool for removing those permanently.
Open the three-dot menu on a Home post and choose Hide Post. If Facebook asks why, select the closest reason to give it more useful feedback. Hide All From Source removes future Home posts from that page.
These controls affect Home recommendations. If you spend most of your time in Feeds, you may rarely need them.
Open Feeds when you want a chronological view, then use Unfollow and Favorites to keep that list useful over time.
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