How to Remove a Tag on Facebook

It can be annoyed when a friend of your friends or one of your friends tags you and over 100 Facebook users to a Facebook post. Well, this happens to almost all Facebook users and when it happens you can either remove yourself from the tag if you know what to do or let it slide. So, in this article, we will discuss how to remove a tag on Facebook and how to hold all Facebook tags for manual review before they can be published on your Facebook timeline.

Meanwhile, the purpose of Facebook tagging is to call your attention to a particular post [What is on your mind on Facebook] which could be birthday posts, event posts, celebration posts, anniversary posts, and many more.

With Facebook tags, users reach out to a specific group of people at once rather than waiting for Facebook to send notifications about a new post. Instead, tagging on Facebook will notify you that a friend has tagged you to a post.

With this post, you can either stop your friends from tagging you on their Facebook posts or hold all tags posts for review before the post will go live.

How to Remove a Tag on Facebook of Someone Else

It is common for your friends to tag you on their posts so that you can engage with the post and since you won’t bother about tagging yourself on your Facebook post, you should only be bothered about someone else tagging you on their Facebook post.

So, here in the part of this article, I’ll walk you through how to remove a tag on Facebook of someone else.

So, in this article, we will take a look at how to remove a tag on Facebook of someone else.

PC

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Follow the steps below to learn how to remove a Facebook tag of someone else on a PC or computer.

• Sign in to your Facebook account on your computer or PC.
• Click on the “Facebook Tag” post.
• Click on the “3 dots” at the top right of the post.
• Select “Remove Tag.”

You will be removed from the post. However, this doesn’t stop future tagging because the steps above only remove the tag from the particular post.

Android

For Android users kindly follow the steps below to remove a Facebook tag of someone else from Facebook posts.

• Launch the “Facebook” app on your Android phone.
• Find and identify the Facebook post you are tagged to.
• Click on the “3 dots” at the top of the post.
• Click on “Remove Tag.”
• Select “Remove Tag” again from the popup.

This is the easiest way to remove a Facebook tag from someone else posts without telling them or letting them know.

iPhone

For iPhone to remove a Facebook tag of someone else kindly follow the steps below.

• Launch the “Facebook” app on your iPhone.
• Click on the “Menu” tab at the bottom right.
• Scroll down and click on “Settings and Privacy” >> “Settings.”
• Scroll down and click on “Activity Log” under “Your Activity.”
• Click on “Public Tags.”
• Click on the “3 dots” beside the Facebook post whose tag you want to remove.
• Click on “Remove Tag” from the popup.
• Click “Remove” from the popup under “Remove Tags?.”

The steps above will remove the tag from the particular Facebook post. However, to remove tags from all the post you’d need to repeat the process on all your posts.

How to Remove a Tag on Facebook Comment

If someone else tag you to a Facebook comment or in a Facebook comment you can easily remove yourself from the post so that you can stop receving notifications whenever is left on the Facebook post.

So, by following the steps below you will learn how to remove a tag on Facebook comment on PC, Android, and iPhone.

PC

You can remove your Facebook tag on a comment on PC by following the steps below.

• Sign in to your Facebook account.
• Click on your “Profile” icon.
• Tap “Settings & Privacy.”
• Tap “Activity Log.”
• Click on “Activity you’re tagged in.“
• Click on the “3 dots” on the comment at the top right.
• Click on “Remove Tag.”
• Click on “Remove” from the popup.

You will be removed from the tagged comment once you click on the remove button. However, this cannot be undone. So, you want to be surreal that you want to do this to remove a Facebook tag from comment.

Android

Just like the way you remove a Facebook post tag on your Android you can also remove a Facebook tag from comment on your Android. So, in this part of the article, we will discuss about how you can remove a Facebook tag from a comment on Facebbok app mobile.

• Launch the “Facebook App” on your Android.
• Click on your “Profile” icon at the top right.
• Click “Settings & privacy” >> “Settings.”
• Scroll down and click on “Activity Log.”
• Click on “Public Tags.”
• Locate the “Facebook Moment” that you are tagged to.
• Click on the “3 dots” on the comment.
• Clik on “Remove Tag.”
• Click “Remove.”

The comment tag will be removed once you clicked on the “remove” button from the popup and you will no longer receive the comment notifications again.

iPhone

The steps to remove a Facebook tag on comment on iPhone is similar to Android. Even at that, we will consider how to remove a Facebook tag from Facebook comment using your iPhone here.

• Open the “Facebook” app.
• Click on the “Menu.”
• Click on “Settings & privacy” >> “Settings.”
• Scroll down and click “Activity Log” under “Your Activity.”
• Choose “Public Tag.”
• Locate the comment that you are tagged in and click on the 3 dots on it.
• Click on “Remove Tag.”
• Choose “Remove.”

Not that you cannot undone this. Once the tag is removed it cannot be undone. With the steps in thi article you should be familiar with how to remove a tag on Facebook posts and comments.

How to Remove a Tag on Facebook

You can hide all Facebook tag on your profile so that any Facebook post tag will not appear on your Facebook timeline until you approve them yourself. With this, you’d be able to filter unneccassary Facebook tags. The process work on PC, iOS, and Android devices.

• Open the “Facebook” app.
• Click on the “Menu.”
• Click on “Settings & privacy” >> “Settings.”
• Scroll down and click “Activity Log” under “Your Activity.”
• Choose “Manage Tag.”
• Click on the “Filter” button.
• Choose “Categories >> All.”
• Check “All” >> “Remove Tags.”
• Choose “Remove” from the popup.

Now, you can sort the tags to remove by date , audience, and people. So, with this, you will be able to remove all tags from your Facebook account.