How to Turn Off Comments on Facebook Post (No Off Switch)

There is no one-tap way to turn off comments on a Facebook post. Open the post, tap or click the three dots in its top-right corner, choose Who can comment on your post? and pick the narrowest option — the one limited to the profiles and Pages you mentioned. Mention nobody, and nobody can comment.

It is worth knowing that before you go hunting for a toggle that does not exist. On a personal profile post, Facebook hands you a comment audience, not an on/off control. Narrowing that audience until it contains no one is the workaround, and it is the one Facebook itself points people to.

Two things to settle before you change anything. The setting applies to that single post and does not become your new default. And it only does real work on a public post — if you shared to Friends only, your comment audience is already capped at your friends.

How to turn off comments on a Facebook post

1. Open the post you want to close. This works from your own profile, your feed, or the post's own page — you only need to be its author.

2. Click or tap the three dots in the top-right corner of the post. On desktop this is a row of dots (•••); in the mobile app it sits in the same corner, though some guides describe it as a stacked menu icon rather than dots.

3. Choose Who can comment on your post? from the menu that opens. If you do not see it, the post is probably not public — see the last section below.

4. Pick the narrowest option. Facebook's own apps label it slightly differently depending on where you are: published guides record it as Profiles and Pages you mention, Profiles and Pages that you mentioned, and one variant beginning with an @ symbol. They all mean the same thing — only accounts tagged in the post may comment.

5. Confirm if you are asked to. Some surfaces show a Done button; others save the choice as soon as you tap it and you simply back out.

Because the post mentions nobody, the set of people allowed to comment is empty. Reporting on the feature is consistent that the comment field then stops appearing for other people rather than appearing and rejecting them.

Platform variants and the account-wide setting

Facebook Groups are the exception. A group post has a real switch. Open the post, click the three dots, and select Turn off comments; the same menu offers Turn on comments to reverse it. Comments already posted stay visible — only new ones are blocked. This is available to the post's author and to the group's admins and moderators.

Pages work like profiles, not like groups. A Page post has the same per-post comment-audience chooser and the same absence of a true off switch, and there is no Page-wide setting that disables commenting everywhere. What Pages get instead is moderation: a profanity filter and a blocked-words list that hide matching comments after they are written. Personal profiles do not get those tools.

There is an account-level comment setting, but it cannot reach zero. It governs your public posts, and its narrowest choice is a group of people — friends — not nobody. Sources disagree on where it now lives: some route it through Settings and privacy → Settings → Followers and public content, others through the privacy section's posts-and-tagging screen. If one path comes up empty on your build, try the other before concluding the setting is gone.

What this does not do

It does not delete comments already there. Restricting the audience stops new comments; the existing thread stays put. If you want those gone you have to hide or delete them one at a time from each comment's own menu.

It does not hide the post. Who can see the post and who can comment on it are two separate controls. A post restricted to zero commenters is still visible to whoever its privacy audience allows, and it can still be reacted to and shared.

It does not change your other posts. This is the one people most often get wrong. The per-post chooser is per post. Everything you publish afterwards goes out under your normal default.

It is not permanent. The same menu reopens on the same post, and picking Public or Friends again restores commenting.

Common questions

Can I switch comments off for everything I post? Not with a single native setting. The account-level control narrows your public posts to friends at its tightest, and the per-post chooser has to be applied post by post. Page owners sometimes approximate an account-wide result with keyword filters, but those hide comments after the fact rather than preventing them.

Will people be told I did this? Nothing in the published documentation of the feature describes a notification going out when you change a post's comment audience, and we are not going to claim one way or the other beyond that. What people encounter is the absence of a comment field, not an announcement.

Does this stop reactions too? No. Likes and other reactions are governed separately and keep working. If the goal is a post nobody interacts with at all, this setting only handles half of it — the same way hiding like counts on Instagram changes what is displayed without changing what people can do.

If the option isn't there

The most common reason is that the post is not public. The comment-audience chooser is built around public posts, and on a post already limited to Friends there is nothing left for it to narrow. Change the post's privacy to Public first if you want the chooser, or accept that your friends can comment.

The second reason is that it is not your post. Only the author — plus admins and moderators inside a group — can change a post's comment settings. On someone else's post your only levers are blocking or muting the individual accounts involved.

If the menu looks nothing like any of the paths above, you are probably on a build where Meta has moved things. The controls migrate between the privacy screens and the followers-and-public-content screen fairly often, and the same shuffling is why unlinking Facebook and Instagram now runs through Accounts Center rather than each app's own settings. Check both screens before deciding a setting has been removed.