How to untag photos in Facebook?

Users often face situations in which they get their photos tagged in Facebook which they don’t wish to have tagged. The topic provides the users with ways in which they can take off photos in Facebook.

Users will first have to click on the pencil icon that is represented at the top right corner of the page

Then the users can click on the option that denotes ‘Remove Tag’

Now the users can see that two pops up will be generated

The screen that pops up first will give the users the option to remove a tag by means of asking the person who tagged the user to remove the tag

Users also have the option to block the specified tagger

After selecting the required option , users can click on the ‘Continue’ button

The next screen will pop-up which will ask the user why they want the tag to be removed

Now the users can see that they will be provided with a wide range of choices from harassing to spam

If the user simply does not want the image to be tagged, then they can very well click on the option that denotes ‘I want to remove this tag’

Now the users will have to go to the Home screen of the Facebook

Click on the drop down menu on the top right corner

Then select the option that denotes ‘Privacy Settings’

Now the users will have to click on the ‘Edit Settings’ option that is denoted next to ‘How Tags work’

Users will now be provided with a range of options that can be changed according to user preferences

Click done after making the changes

The first among them includes Timeline Review, which once enabled means that the users can manually review each and every post that have been tagged by the user before it appears on the user’s Timeline

Second comes Tag Review which also works in the same way as that of Timeline Review

Third comes Tag Suggestions which is known as the facial recognition tool of Facebook which the users can disable by clicking on the option that denotes ‘No One’

Once the user approves the review options, then the users will have to approve the tag manually

Finally the users will have to click on the box for viewing the alerts

The next screen that pops up will give the users option to either click on the ‘Ignore’ button or ‘approve’ button

Clicking on the ‘Ignore’ tab will not display the content on the Timeline of the user

If the user wants to hide their activity from certain specific people, then the users will have to go to the ‘How Tags work’ page and click on the ‘custom’ option in the Maximum Time Visibility tab

Now a page will pop-up which give the users two options namely;

Make this visible to

Hide this from

Enter the list of the people from whom the user wants to hide the tagged posts

Then finally click on the tab that represents ‘Save Changes’

That’s it. This is how photos can be untagged in Facebook.