How to Turn Off Comments on Facebook

Method 1: Turn off comments on a single Facebook post

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Everything you need is behind the three dots on the post itself. Which options you get there depends on the post, so this method covers both: the direct switch if Facebook shows it to you, and the audience control that works when it does not.

1. 1Open the post as an adminGo to your Page and find the post. You need to be an admin or editor of the Page, and it has to be a post your Page made. You cannot turn off comments on somebody else's post, and no setting anywhere changes that.
2. 2Click the three dots on the postTop right corner of the post, not the top of your Page. This is the menu that holds every per post setting, and it is the only place they live.
3. 3Look for Turn off commentingIf it is there, click it. New comments stop immediately and the comment box disappears for everyone else. Comments already on the post stay where they are, because this switch does not delete anything. Click it again any time to turn commenting back on.
4. 4If it is not there, use Who can comment on your post?This option is the reliable one on Pages, and it is in the same three dots menu. Facebook does not show Turn off commenting on every post, so if you went looking for it and came up empty, you are not doing it wrong.
5. 5Choose Profiles and Pages you mentionYou get Public, then a narrower option, then Profiles and Pages you mention. That last one means only accounts you tagged in the post can comment. If you tagged nobody, nobody can comment, and the comment box is gone. This is the closest thing a Page has to an off switch.
6. 6Check it from the outsideOpen the post in a private window while logged out and look at it the way a stranger does. This takes ten seconds and it is the only way to know the setting actually saved.

Method 2: Turn off comments on your Facebook ads

This is a separate setting in a separate place, and Page settings do not touch it. If your problem is comments under an ad rather than under an organic post, this is your method.

1. 1Open the ad in Meta Ads ManagerNot your Page, and not Meta Business Suite. Go to Ads Manager and open the campaign, then the ad set, then the ad itself. This setting lives at the ad level.
2. 2Find the comment controlsScroll down through the ad's setup to the engagement settings. You get a choice between allowing comments, limiting them, or turning them off.
3. 3Turn comments off, then publishSelect the off option and publish your change. It applies to that ad, so an ad set with five ads in it needs this five times.
4. 4Expect it to be missing sometimesThe control does not appear for every ad objective or every placement. If it is not on your ad, Facebook is not hiding it from you, it does not exist for that ad, and your options are the ones in Method 3.

Method 3: Keep the post open and hide the bad comments instead

If what you actually want is the spam gone rather than the comments gone, Facebook has a free filter for that. You give your Page a list of words and it hides any comment containing one, across your whole Page, on old posts and new ones.

1. 1Open your Page settingsGo to your Page as an admin and click Settings. On mobile, tap the gear icon on your Page.
2. 2Go to Privacy, then Public PostsThis screen holds every setting about what other people are allowed to put on your Page. If you have hunted for this in Meta Business Suite, that is why you could not find it. It is a Page setting.
3. 3Open Content ModerationScroll down to Content Moderation and click Edit. Type the words you want hidden, with a comma between each one. Emojis count as words, and any language works.
4. 4Save and check what it caughtHidden comments do not vanish, they drop out of public view. Check your activity log after a day to see what your list caught, and what it caught by accident.

What turning comments off actually costs you

Every method above works. Here is what none of the how to articles mention, and it is the reason most brands turn comments back on within a month.

• A post with comments off looks like something to hide

  People check the comments before they trust an ad. It is the only part of your post you did not write. When the box is missing, a normal shopper does not think tidy, they think the reviews were bad enough to remove. Silence reads as guilt, and it reads that way instantly.

• You lose the engagement, and Facebook notices

  Comments are a ranking and auction signal. Switching them off tells the system your post is not generating conversation, which is exactly what the system uses to decide who else sees it and what you pay to reach them.

• It is per post, forever, by hand

  There is no Page wide setting that turns comments off everywhere. Every post you publish is another visit to the three dots menu, and every ad is another trip through Ads Manager. Miss one at 11pm and it is open all night.

• The comments already there do not go anywhere

  Turning commenting off is a door, not a broom. Whatever pushed you to search this is still sitting under the post in public, and you still have to deal with each one yourself.

• The people you wanted are the ones you locked out

  The spam does not mind. It moves to your next post, or your other Page, or your Instagram. The customer who wanted to ask about sizes just closed the tab, because there was nowhere to ask.

So the real question is not how to turn comments off. It is how to get a comment section where only the good ones are visible, which is a different problem with a better answer.

When it does not work

• Why can people still comment after I turned commenting off?

  Check that the setting saved by opening the post logged out in a private window. If you used Who can comment on your post?, anyone tagged in that post can still comment, so check whether you mentioned a profile or Page in the text. And confirm you changed the right post: a boosted post and its ad can behave as two separate things.

• Why is the comment control missing from my ad in Ads Manager?

  It does not exist for every ad objective or placement, so on some ads there is nothing to find. Make sure you are at the ad level rather than the ad set or campaign level, and that you are in Ads Manager rather than Meta Business Suite. Where the control is genuinely absent, hiding comments is the only route left.

• Why did turning comments off not remove the spam under my post?

  Because it was never going to. The switch blocks new comments and leaves old ones untouched and public. Hide them from the post itself, then add the words they use to your Content Moderation list so the next batch is hidden before anybody reads it.

• Why did my reach drop after I turned comments off?

  Comments are part of how Facebook decides a post is worth showing to more people. Take the signal away and distribution usually follows it down, and on ads the cost per result tends to climb. Turn commenting back on and hide the comments you do not want instead, which keeps the signal and loses the spam.