How to turn off comments on a Facebook post
It depends where the post is. In a group, admins, moderators and the person who posted can switch commenting off completely: Options → Turn off commenting. On a Page post or a public post on your profile there is no off switch — Options → Who can comment on your post? only narrows the audience, at most to the profiles and Pages you mention. On ads and boosted posts, even that setting is unavailable.
Checked against Meta’s Help Center on 26 October 2026.
At a glance
Can you switch comments off completely?
Only one place on Facebook has a real off switch. Everywhere else, Meta’s own pages describe a control that narrows who can comment, or nothing at all.
| Where the post is | A setting that stops everyone commenting? |
|---|---|
| Post in a group | Yes — Turn off commenting |
| Post on a Page | No — narrow who can comment |
| Public post on your profile | No — narrow who can comment |
| Reel on your profile | Narrowing is not available to everyone yet |
| Live video | Not documented — only comment limits |
| Ad or boosted post | Mostly no |
Step by step
Meta’s steps, one surface at a time
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A post in a group you run
Go to the group, open the post, click Options, then Turn off commenting. The same menu has Turn on commenting to undo it. Admins, moderators and the person who wrote the post can do this. Meta’s steps
Softer options exist in some groups: admins and moderators can turn off replies to a single comment, or Slow down comments so each person can comment once every five minutes. Meta says neither is available to every group yet. Meta’s steps
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A post on your Facebook Page
Open the post, click Options at the top right, then Who can comment on your post? and choose Public, Established followers, Profiles and Pages you follow, or Profiles and Pages you mention. People left out no longer see the Comment button and are told you have limited comments. There is no “No one” option, and the setting does not apply to a post with custom privacy, such as one targeted to a country or age group. Meta’s steps
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A public post on your personal profile
For one post: Options → Who can comment on your post?, then Public, Friends and established followers, Friends, or Profiles and Pages you mention, and click Done. For every public post at once: your profile picture → Settings and privacy → Settings → Followers and public content → Who can comment on your public posts? (Public, Friends, or Friends of friends). Meta’s steps
A post that is not public is simpler: the audience you share it with is the audience that can like and comment on it. Meta For reels on your profile, Meta says changing the comment audience “isn’t available to everyone yet” and suggests the iPhone or Android app.
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A live video
Meta documents comment limits that a broadcaster can apply, as seen from the viewer’s side: one comment every ten seconds, a 100-character minimum, followers only, a protected mode that requires 15 minutes of following, accounts at least two weeks old, or subscribers only. It does not document where a broadcaster switches these on, or any setting that turns comments on a live video off entirely — so we cannot give you menu steps for either. Meta’s page. If the live video is from a Page, CommentDefender hides comments that match your rules as they arrive, the same as on any other Page post.
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An ad or a boosted post
Mostly, no. Meta says the who-can-comment setting is not available once a post is an ad or boosted, and that for most advertisers anyone who sees the ad can comment on it. You can still hide comments and apply your Page’s filters — what works on ad comments. Meta’s page
Before you switch anything off
When turning comments off is the wrong fix
Closing a thread stops the spam and the scam links. It also stops the customer asking about sizes and the regular who answers them for you. On a Page, the conversation is usually most of the point of posting.
Hiding is the narrower tool. A comment you hide on a Page post stays visible to the person who wrote it and their friends, disappears for everyone else along with its replies, and can be unhidden later (Meta). The commenter carries on as if nothing happened, and the rest of the thread keeps working — what hiding does, compared with deleting.
Turning comments off is the right call for a post that should never have been a conversation — an announcement, a condolence, a post that has turned into a pile-on. For everything else, hide what breaks your rules and leave the rest up.
Hiding, without the clicking
How CommentDefender keeps Page comments open and clean
Connect your Pages
Sign in with Facebook and pick the Pages to cover. Personal profiles and groups are not part of it — only Pages, and the Instagram accounts linked to them.
Set rules per Page
Links, emails and phone numbers, your keyword lists, and a whitelist that overrules them. Try the rules on a real comment first.
Matches are hidden as they arrive
Every new comment on your posts and ads is checked, and every hide is logged with the rule that caused it — Facebook comment moderation.
Before you sign up
Two things this does not do
It does not turn comments off. Where you want a thread closed, use Facebook’s own settings above.
It does not clean up comments already on your posts. Moderation starts at the moment you connect a Page.
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