If you’re tired of seeing too many Facebook stories from someone, you can easily mute them. This way you won’t be notified or shown in your feed when they upload new stories. And you can also hide your stories from other user.
It’s easy to mute Facebook Stories for a friend, so they don’t show up in your notifications. It is not necessary to block the user, but to mute it so that you do not receive any notifications about your stories.
In addition to being able to mute other people’s stories, we’ll also look at how you can hide your own stories from someone or many users. So, you can make only one person can see your story on Facebook or hide it for one or more people.
1: Silence Facebook stories on your mobile phone
Hiding someone’s stories from your Android or iPhone on Facebook is quite easy, just follow these steps:
1. Open the Facebook app, long press on the story of the person you want to hide and select the Mute story of [user] option.
2. Then tap on the Mute option.
3. This is how you can mute Facebook stories on your smarthphone, be it an Android or iPhone device.
Unmute a Facebook story
If after you’ve muted someone’s stories, you change your mind and want to see them again, you can unmute them like this:
1. Click on Create story.
2. Then tap on the gear icon in the upper right corner
3. Then click on the Stories you muted option.
4. Here you will be able to see your muted stories on Facebook. To reactivate a user story, just tap the Reactivate button next to it
So far we have seen how to hide and reactivate Facebook stories on the cell phone. If you’re on your computer, then you’ll see how you can do it in the browser.
2: How to mute Facebook stories on computer
To turn off someone’s Facebook Stories from the Facebook website on your computer, follow these steps:
1. First you need to log into your Facebook account and open the story of the person you want to mute.
2. In the open story, click the three-dot button next to the pause and volume buttons, and then select the Mute [user] option.
3. Now click on the Mute button on the popup window to confirm the action.
This way you will no longer see that person’s stories in your feed. But what if you later regret it and want to activate that person’s stories? Next let’s see how to turn on muted stories.
Reactivate a person’s story:
To unmute someone’s story, open any story, then click the Settings link on the left.
A popup window with two tabs will open. Select the Stories you muted tab, and click the Unmute button next to the account you want to unmute.
Here you can see all the muted stories on your Facebook and unmute the ones you want.
From now on you can continue to see the stories of that person.
3: How to Hide Your Facebook Stories from someone
Muting other people’s stories on Facebook can help, but it can also be useful to hide your story from someone or other users.
As an example, you can have only one person who can see your story or hide it from one or more people.
Hide a Facebook story on mobile:
1. Click on Create story at the beginning of the section from the Facebook application.
2. Then click on the gear icon in the upper right corner.
3. From here you can choose the Privacy of the story, that is, the level of visibility or public that will be able to see your stories. They are usually set to Public, which can be seen by everyone.
4. Choose the Friends option if you only want your friends to be able to see your stories. Additionally, you can combine with the Hide story from option, to hide the Facebook story from someone or even multiple people.
5. You could also select Custom, with which you can choose who can see your stories.
Then choose each of the people who can see the story, remaining hidden from the rest.
The custom option is ideal if you want to have only one person see your story on Facebook.
6. When you make your choice of the privacy of your stories, to apply just click on Save in the upper right corner.
How to hide Facebook story from someone on the computer:
1. Access Facebook Stories by clicking on any story, and clicking the Settings link on the left.
2. In the pop-up window, click More and select Story privacy.
3. In the next window choose Custom and then click on the Change button.
4. Now mark the circle of one or several people and click on the Save button.
This way only selected people will be able to see your current and future stories. They will be hidden from everyone else.
5. To hide your stories from one or more friends, then select the Friends option and click the Change button.
6. Then click on the Hide story to option.
7. Choose the person(s) you want to hide your Facebook stories from and click Save.
8. Again click Save, and your stories will be hidden from the selected people.
As we said, these options to hide your stories are ideal if you want one or more people to not be able to see them. Or maybe you want only a friend or a few to see it.
Frequent asked questions:
– How to make only one person see my story on Facebook? If you want only one person to be able to see your stories, go to the privacy settings of your stories, choose the Custom option and select the person who will be able to see your stories. This topic is further detailed in step 5 of the hide stories section above, for mobile.
– How to see other viewers on Facebook story? Other viewers or anonymous people are non-friend Facebook users who viewed your story. If someone other than your Facebook friend views your story, it will be counted as other viewers.
There is no way to know who the anonymous people viewing your Facebook stories are, as Facebook has chosen to keep this information confidential.
What you can do is prevent strangers or non-friends from seeing your stories. You must set the privacy setting to “Friends”. On your phone, go to Facebook, tap on stories, and choose Story Settings > Friends > Save.