Suggestions from friends on Facebook can be quite useful for adding people we may know. However, sometimes we don’t want to add too many people or just very specific people. We can disable friend suggestions on Facebook in a simple way on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.
If we wish to maintain our privacy on Facebook. One of the most important things is to be careful with who we add to our account, especially since they will be able to see what we publish, our photos, etc. Therefore, the ideal is to deactivate the suggestion of friends and if we want to add someone, search for them manually.
How to disable Facebook friend suggestions on Windows and Mac
Obviously the first thing we will do is open Facebook and log in with our account. Now we will have to click on the arrow pointing down which is in the upper right corner of the screen. In this drop-down menu we will have to choose “Settings and privacy” and then “Settings”.
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Now we will have to go to the sidebar on the left and we will have to click on “Notifications”.
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We are going to have to click on the “People you may know” section.
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Here we will be able to disable the suggestions of friends on Facebook. We have several options, we can do it only by mobile notifications (Push) by email or SMS. In case you don’t want any, just turn off the switch at the top which says “Allow notifications on Facebook.”
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In this way, Facebook will no longer suggest other accounts to add as friends both on the mobile device and in the application. To add someone we will have to search and add them manually.
Disable friend suggestions on iPhone and Android
We open the application on our device and we are going to click on the icon in the upper right corner of the screen, the one with three horizontal lines.
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In the drop-down menu we will have to click on “Settings and privacy” and then on “Settings”.
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We are going to go down until we reach the “Notifications” section where we are going to have to choose the “Notification settings” option.
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In this menu we will have to look for the section “People you may know”.
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In the same way that happens in the web version. We will be able to select whether we want to disable suggestion notifications from individual friends via push, email or text messages. We can also completely disable them from “Allow notifications on Facebook”.
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After selecting the configuration we want, a pop-up message will appear where we will have to confirm the change and that’s it. In this simple way we have already managed to deactivate the suggestions of friends on Facebook.
