Facebook: Hide or unhide recent activities
By default, all of your recent activities will show up in your Facebook timeline or profile page. This means everybody in your list can see what you are doing on Facebook. If you want to hide those activities from your friends, this tutorial will help you.
To hide Recent Activities:
1. Log in to your Facebook account.
2. Go to your profile page.
3. Find the Recent Activity section on the page.
Click the X button at the end of each activity -> Hide All Recent Pages from Timeline… for the Liking activity.
or choose Hide Similar Activity from Timeline… for other activities.
4. If you hide all activities, your Recent Activity section will look like below.
To unhide Recent Activities:
1. Go to the Recent Activity section.
2. Click on the small pencil icon -> Hidden Activity…
3. Click X next to the activity that you want to unhide. Hit Save button to update the changes.
Note: The difference between Hide from timeline and Hide similar activity from the Timeline…
Hide from timeline: Only hide that single activity from timeline. That type of activity will still appear in the future. Can be unhidden from the Activity Log.
Hide similar activity from the Timeline: That type of activity, even in the future will not appear anymore. Can be unhidden.
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November 04, 2011 at 3:00 am, ta said:
um….there is no RECENT ACTIVITY section!!!! WHERE??? Can you tell me how to find this section? Where? What do I do? Like from my home page? Where? You just say “FIND IT” thanks alot…..even FB own HELP pages do that….”um just go to this section” WHERE IS IT?????????? DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS PLEASE!!!!!!
April 27, 2012 at 11:00 am, nino said:
temporarily deactivate and reactivate your facebook account and it will re-appear after you make a comment, like, update status… etc. etc.
November 04, 2011 at 3:58 am, Lê Hoàng said:
@ta: To see the section, click on your name (top left of the page) to go to your profile page.
Have you upgraded to the new Facebook Timeline?
If you have, then the Recent activity is at the top, on the right side.
If you have not, then the section should be somewhere at the middle of the page (it depends on how many statuses you have since your last activity)
Here is an example of the old Recent activty:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/wp-content/uploads/Recent-Activities.png
November 08, 2011 at 2:16 am, cj said:
If you don’t see any Recent Activity on your Profile Wall, you need to create one, like add a quotation or change your profile, etc, it will create a Recent Activity story on your Profile Wall. Then you need to click on the “X” on that activity and select the option “Hide All Recent profile changes from Profile…” and the confirmation window will come up, instead of clicking “Hide all”, click on “Edit Options” and it will show you “Activities” you’ve hidden before and you just need to click on the X beside the activity to unhide them. Hope this helps!
April 19, 2012 at 10:09 pm, camellia said:
> i did all that in the box is saying you didnt hide any activity. but still i dont see my city ville posts on my wall???
November 08, 2011 at 8:23 am, olol said:
Too bad this doesn’t hide my recent activity from News Feed/Home and Ticker Box, Facebook apparently doesn’t want these information to be hidden. Fail.
November 08, 2011 at 8:23 am, olol said:
Any suggestions for that? Cause I looked everywhere, but nothing came up.
April 27, 2012 at 11:08 am, nino said:
> temporarily deactivate and reactivate your facebook account and it will re-appear after you make a comment, like, update status… etc. etc.
November 08, 2011 at 8:49 am, Le Hoang said:
@olol: Can you use the “View As” function to see if those activities are hidden from other users?
November 14, 2011 at 4:09 am, lynnetua said:
@Le: I hid some of my recent activities and when I view as a friend, they can’t see most of my activities… I’m suppose to be able to unhide them which i tried under edit options but it was written [there are no recent hidden activities] how is this possible when i hide some of them? And now I cannot unhide them….
November 14, 2011 at 7:11 am, Lê Hoàng said:
@lynnetua: It sounds like you have hid the activities using “Hide from timeline”. Using this, you can not unhide the activities.
You can see the difference between “Hide from timeline” and “Hide similar activities from timeline” at the bottom of this post.
I hope this helps
November 14, 2011 at 6:25 pm, Lê Hoàng said:
@lynnetua: Is there any activities in your Activity Log (click the View activity button)? You can unhide an activity from there.
December 13, 2011 at 4:17 am, Jerome said:
same problem as lynnetua – I hid some activity (games such as cityville) and I’ve got nothing in the section to unhide anything.
I hid some more activities to see if the problem was only related to games but I got the same problem with “friending activity”
When I go on the activity log to get to posts for games back on my timeline, they are all “allowed on timeline” but none of them appeared even if I try to feature them.
December 16, 2011 at 7:00 am, Dan said:
Any ideas as to why I’m unable to delete activity for adding life events? Want to add some previous trips but don’t want it all showing up in recent activity – but everytime I remove it from there, I refresh the page and it comes back!
December 24, 2011 at 2:44 pm, Robin said:
Same as Jerome, So anything you “Hide from Timeline” on your profile page, like Castleville..You can’t unhide it?!! I accidently hid my castleville and now I can’t get it back, Ive tried everything. So none of my castleville friends can click on any of the stuff I try to post from the game on my profile page :\.
December 25, 2011 at 10:45 am, Dian said:
i clicked hidden activity but there’s nothing showing although i’m sure that i hide something on my timeline.what do i do? :s
January 20, 2012 at 8:29 pm, Stephanie said:
How do you get the Music box back to your timelime?
January 20, 2012 at 8:54 pm, Lê Hoàng said:
@Stephanie: You can go to your Activity logs and get it back from there.
Hope that helps
January 21, 2012 at 7:27 pm, genesis said:
well i accidently hid something and it wont show anymore.not even on my ambum.how can i make show again on my timeline?
January 21, 2012 at 7:27 pm, genesis said:
album*
February 01, 2012 at 2:01 pm, Avery said:
I have accidentally hidden the ‘Music’ App from facebook, and now there seems to be no way to bring it back. I have tried accessing my activity feed, selecting music, and making sure all of categories are checked under the gear ‘Top Albums, recently played’, however, the Music box is still missing from my timeline. I have tried everything, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to ‘unhide’ it. Any ideas?
February 01, 2012 at 8:11 pm, zena said:
Ok so let me get this straight, if i’ve clicked on
“hide this activity from timeline” or
“hide similar from timeline” or basically hide anything from timeline, I can NEVER unhide this information?
Because that is a super flaw .. and would make me very unhappy….
February 02, 2012 at 2:29 am, Lê Hoàng said:
@zena: You can. All those activities can be unhidden from your Activity Log
February 02, 2012 at 6:48 pm, zena said:
@Le .. I tried that .. The photos that I’ve hidden have just disappeared off the activity log.
I’m still tagged in them, but they don’t even come up in my photo albums .. only when I go to the friends album can I see them
*sigh*.. facebook and their tinkering.
Frustrating.
February 08, 2012 at 9:25 am, megan said:
I have anciently hidden my music from my timeline as well and I *cannot* get it back even through the activity logs as suggested. It super frustrating. I was only trying to hide my recent playlist created and it hid my recent songs played. Has anyone had luck so far getting theirs back?!
February 12, 2012 at 10:36 am, Arthuus said:
Go to your timeline>activity log> on the top right of the page there is a drop down menu click on it> go to music > then find the drop down menu with the picture of a gear next to it says ” global activity can show up in ” > make sure Recent Music Activity is checked. And that’s it.
February 15, 2012 at 4:36 pm, Shan said:
Please after reading all the help and set up pages I still can’t get any activity such as “Shan liked so & so’s link” or “Shan liked this photo” or comments on other posts to show up on my timeline. Only threads I start or links I post show up – I hate this timeline it’s so contrived and not what Facebook is all about – if I wanted a blog I’d have one!!! I can’t see how to allow recent activity – been to the activity log and it says “allow on timeline” on everything yet nothing is there!
February 20, 2012 at 4:15 am, Danica said:
I’m having a similar problem – I can’t see anybody’s status updates, including my own, yet nothing is hidden.
Also having problems with things not loading properly, e.g. the “Notes” and “Photos” links.
Facebook has a problem and nothing I can find will fix it!
February 23, 2012 at 9:04 am, joe said:
same problem! I can see all my activity in my activity log….but I can’t get any of it on my timeline like “likes” and comments…..when I click on the little circle..says its allowed on timeline…but the only option I have is to delete…and not to add it to my timeline…..TIMELINE SUCKS WISH I NEVER UPGRADED!!!!!!
February 23, 2012 at 8:45 pm, mel said:
i have done all of those things, that have been suggested. it says i dont have anything hidden. yet no comments i write on anyones wall show up or things i like. yes its in my activity log. but nothing in recent activity.
dont know why they keep changing shit for, especially that ticker thing, we dont need to know everything people do on other peoples wall etc
February 25, 2012 at 7:14 pm, Kay said:
I have the same problem as others on this page. I have no recent activity box on my timeline profile. I cannot add them from the activity log. I have done hours of research with no luck. It seems like there is no way to put the recent activity box back on my timeline. Very frustrating. Please help.
March 04, 2012 at 2:57 pm, Sabine said:
Same here:
The “Recent Activity” section doesn’t even show up on my profile. I cannon unhide my “likes” (of other users’ posts) and “comments” (on other users’ posts). I’m done trying. Too many glitches in TimeLine.
March 09, 2012 at 9:50 am, Larry said:
Why there is not a “Post to wall only” button has got to be a “Market strategy”…I hate facebook…!!!
March 12, 2012 at 2:04 am, Nick said:
Thank you so much Arthuus! I had the same problem as everyone else here and your fix is the ONLY thing on the internet that actually worked. Two thumbs up =D
March 12, 2012 at 12:14 pm, Erik said:
Arthuus, I followed your instructions to get my Friends recent activity back. However, that option isn’t there for “LIKES.” I hid the LIKES recent activity and now I cannot figure out how to get it back. This is incredibly frustrating. Any help on getting the recent Likes back would be appreciated. Wish FB would just leave things alone.
March 12, 2012 at 7:01 pm, Brittany said:
Hi can i ask for some help??
I have only ever hidden a few things on my face book and logged in today to find everything has gone from febuary onwards ??
do you know why my facebook has suddenly removed everything without me even telling it to ??
March 20, 2012 at 6:26 pm, jaci said:
i removed the pinterest log from the main page on my timeline and now i want it back and i cant figure it out. i tried looking for the gear, which arthuus said to do with the music log and i didn’t see the gear in the music section or the pinterest section. Nothing is working for me i tried everything!!
March 21, 2012 at 6:31 am, Ro said:
I have accidentally hidden my relationship update
the update and likes/comments still show up in my recent activities but not my timeline
however it doesn’t show under the info tab in recent activities… only under all…. where could it have gone and how do i get it back?
March 23, 2012 at 2:37 am, Buba said:
I cant find my hide/unhide ticer icon, so I can’t backticker.. Help, please!!!
March 23, 2012 at 3:15 am, Buba said:
simply , it is not in the top right corner????
March 26, 2012 at 11:32 am, J said:
This is bogus. Theres no “x” on my activity, it’s an “o.”. The only time I have an option to hide from timeline is on my own status updates. On comments that I’ve made to friends statuses the only option I have is “allow on timeline” and “delete”. When I delete it it not only deletes It from my timeline but from the original place I commented as well. How can you just hide those from your own activity timeline?
March 27, 2012 at 8:19 am, HS said:
Just the same problem as J above (26-Mar-12). I am searching mighty high and low, but even Facebook help doesn’t have that solution. The circle, as J puts it, says “Allowed on Timeline” or “Delete…”. All my likes and comments on others’ pictures and statuses etc. appear in my Acitvity Log and friends Newsfeeds, but NOT on my own Timeline.
March 31, 2012 at 4:57 am, Vicki said:
For the past week I cant click on hide to unsubscibe or hide story etc it just wont work Help.
and all of a sudden everybody I have hidden from news fee has come back up and all the games they have played any ideas?
March 31, 2012 at 5:00 am, Vicki said:
also unsubcribe doesnt show up anymore
April 03, 2012 at 8:55 am, just-peachy said:
In regards to:
“Hide similar activity from the Timeline: That type of activity, even in the future will not appear anymore. Can be unhidden.”
How? I went to my Activity Log and the “hidden” posts etc have disappeared.
April 11, 2012 at 12:40 pm, clare said:
I hid all posts from a game this morning that were on my timeline wall and now more recent ones are not posting neither are my friends on my newsfeeds, is there any way i can change it??
April 19, 2012 at 5:18 am, CHoopes said:
I hid Subscriptions using that dialog box, and now I can’t find how to add them back. It’s not listed in the Recent activity box.
April 30, 2012 at 11:54 am, Ami said:
i hid my zoo world requests.. and i did what it said but it says theres no hidden activities
May 04, 2012 at 1:11 pm, Berhe said:
How do I check whether viewing post is enabled or not? I can not see any caption or stub for enable and disable on face book.
May 06, 2012 at 5:09 am, renjith said:
i dont want to hide my comments that i given and likes that i liked away from my timeline. is this possible? I dont want what i liked, messaged away from my timeline.
Thanks in advance.
May 07, 2012 at 5:32 pm, Dave said:
What is the difference between untagging a photo and hiding it from timeline? Can other people still see the photo by looking at ‘photos of you’? or they will only see it if they go and look through the album that it is in? thanks!
May 09, 2012 at 2:51 am, Lisa White said:
My game post aren’t showing up on the home page? I’ve made sure they’re all unhidden. Is their something else I need to do to make them seen on the main home page?
May 09, 2012 at 9:00 am, rochee said:
i hid my friending activity on my timeline and i when i tried unhiding it, checked my hidden activity and it was empty -_- how it will appear again? =/
May 13, 2012 at 9:49 pm, lawrence said:
It says no recent activity hidden, and i hide a pic of my buddy from my time line yesterday. like wtf
May 16, 2012 at 10:02 pm, Izabelle said:
What i write on others wall dosent show on my own timeline. Why? it never does? can i make any change in my settings to make them show?
Thanks!
May 17, 2012 at 1:05 pm, David Kirk said:
@Izabella – Writing on the wall of someone else doesn’t show up on your timeline. If you really want it to show on both places, write it on your wall and then tag the other person on the post.