How to delete a Facebook business page, or unpublish it from public view

You can delete a Facebook business page permanently in a few quick steps.
Unpublishing your page may be a better option when you just want to remove it from public view.
Facebook page administrators are the only users allowed to delete or unpublish a page.

Creating a Facebook business page is a fairly quick process. Removing or deleting a business page is quick, too.

There are two ways to “remove” a Facebook business page from public view. You can delete a page (remove it forever) or change the page’s status to “unpublished.”

Quick tip: You must be a page administrator to change the visibility of a page or to delete it.

How to delete a Facebook business page

Deleting a page is permanent. You will receive no email notice from Facebook confirming your deletion. Your page will just disappear on its scheduled date. Be sure you’re ready to remove it before you begin.

1. Switch to your Facebook page’s profile and click this link to get to the Settings & Privacy screen.

2. Click the View button beside Deactivation and deletion.

3. Click Delete Page and then Continue and follow the prompt.

Screenshot of the page deletion confirmation screen.

Click Delete Page and Continue.

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Your page is now scheduled for deletion. It will be deleted after 14 days. You can cancel a deletion by going to your page and clicking Cancel deletion at the top of the page. The page will no longer be recoverable once 14 days have passed.

How to unpublish a Facebook business page

Unpublishing a page removes it from public view. This might be useful when you want to update or make a change to your Facebook business page. It can be reactivated at any time.

1. Switch to your Facebook page’s profile and click this link to get to the Settings & Privacy screen.

2. Click the View button beside Deactivation and deletion.

Screenshot of the Settings & Privacy screen with the View option highlighted.

Click View.

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3. Choose Deactivate Page and select Continue and follow the prompt.

Screenshot of the Deactivating or deleting your Facebook Page screen.

Click Deactivate Page and Continue.

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4. You’ll have to answer a few questions about why you want to unpublish the page, and then click Deactivate.

Screenshot of Facebook Page deactivating screen confirmation.

Fill in the form and click Deactivate.

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Quick tip: Reactivating can be done by clicking this link and choosing Reactivate next to the page that you wish to reactivate.

How to remove a page from your Business Manager

Removing a page from Business Manager is for situations when you no longer want to manage the business page but also don’t want to delete it. You must be an admin of the page in order to do this.

1. Go to Business Settings and select the business account that you want to manage.

2. Locate the page that you wish to remove in the list of pages and click on the Trash can icon to remove it.

Screenshot of the trash can icon.

Click the trash can icon.

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Kyle Wilson

Kyle Wilson is an editor for the Reference team, based in British Columbia, Canada. Outside of Insider, his work has also appeared in publications like The Verge, VICE, Kotaku, and more. He periodically guest co-hosts the Saturday tech show “Tech Talk” on the iHeartRadio station C-FAX 1070.

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