How to snooze or unfollow someone on Facebook
To snooze someone on Facebook, click the three dots on one of their posts and choose Snooze for 30 days. To unfollow them, choose Unfollow from the same menu. Either way you stay friends, and they aren’t notified. Here’s how each works, and which to use when.
Updated November 2, 2026Snooze someone for 30 days
Snooze is for a break: an election, a breakup, a friend’s nonstop vacation photos. It works on people, Pages and groups.
- Find one of their posts in your feed.
- Click or tap the three dots at the top right of the post.
- Choose Snooze [name] for 30 days.
Changed your mind? Tap Undo in the message that appears. After 30 days their posts come back by themselves.
To end a snooze early, on a computer: click your profile picture at the top right, then Settings & privacy, then Content preferences, then Snooze, and click End Snooze next to them. In the app, tap the menu, then Settings & privacy, then Settings, then Content preferences (under Preferences), then Snooze.
Unfollow someone
Unfollow is for good. You stay friends, but their posts stop showing up in your feed.
From a post, click the three dots and choose Unfollow [name].
Or go straight to them:
- A person: on their profile, tap Following, then Unfollow.
- A Page: tap Following (or Liked), then Unfollow.
- A group: tap Joined, then Unfollow group. You stay in the group.
To follow someone again, go to Settings & privacy, then Content preferences, then Reconnect.
Take a break
Take a break is for someone you want to see less of in a more delicate situation, usually an ex. Facebook offers it when you change your relationship status to single, divorced or blank, and you can also use it for anyone else. It limits where you see them and what they can see of your posts, without unfriending or blocking anyone. Facebook’s help center doesn’t currently list step-by-step instructions for it.
Hide one post with Not interested
For a single post, click the three dots and choose Not interested. It tells Facebook you want fewer posts like it. (It used to be called Show less, and it replaced the old Hide post option.)
See more of the right people instead
- Favorites: pick up to 30 friends and Pages whose posts appear higher in your feed. Go to Settings & privacy, then Content preferences, then Favorites.
- Feeds: a tab that shows the most recent posts from the people, Favorites, Pages and groups you follow, newest first. On a computer, click See more in the menu on the left, then Feeds.
Which one should you use?
- One bad month (an election, a big game, a friend’s wedding planning): snooze.
- For good, but staying friends: unfollow.
- An ex, or something more delicate: take a break.
- One annoying post: Not interested.
What snoozing and unfollowing don’t do
They work one person, Page or group at a time. When the thing you’re tired of is a topic, like politics or a news story everyone’s sharing, you’d have to snooze half your friends list, and it would still arrive from Pages and suggested posts you’ve never heard of. Snoozes also run out after 30 days. And Facebook has no muted words for your feed: see can you mute words on Facebook. For politics specifically, see how to see less politics on Facebook.
Snooze a topic, not your friends
Remedy is a Chrome extension that filters facebook.com as you scroll. Instead of unfollowing people, tell it what you’re done seeing, like “nothing about the election” or “no posts about my ex’s band”, and it removes those posts from your feed, whoever shared them, while everything else from your friends stays. On Plus, it checks images and videos too.
It works on a computer, in Chrome, not in the Facebook app. The popup lists everything it took out, and nothing expires after 30 days.
Questions
Does Facebook tell someone when you snooze or unfollow them?
No. People, Pages and groups aren’t notified when you snooze or unfollow them, and you stay friends.
What’s the difference between snoozing and unfollowing on Facebook?
Snooze hides someone’s posts from your feed for 30 days, then they come back on their own. Unfollow hides them until you choose to follow them again.
How do I see who I’ve snoozed or unfollowed?
Go to Settings & privacy, then Content preferences. Snooze lists everyone you’ve snoozed, and Reconnect lists the people, Pages and groups you’ve unfollowed.