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Customize your tab bar or shortcuts in a few easy steps
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This wikiHow teaches you how to edit the Shortcuts menu and navigation bar (or tab bar) on Facebook. On smartphones and tablets, you can edit which shortcuts appear in your app’s navigation bar or remove shortcuts from the “Your shortcuts” section of the menu. Using a web browser, you can edit the shortcuts menu that appears on the left side of your feed.
How to Edit Your Tabs or Shortcuts
- In the mobile app, edit which shortcuts appear in your navigation bar by going to ☰ > Settings & Privacy > Settings > Tab bar > Customize the bar .
- Tap and hold a shortcut in ☰ > Your shortcuts , then select Remove shortcut to delete it.
- In a web browser, hover over Your shortcuts in the left-hand menu on your feed, then click Edit to pin or hide shortcuts.
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Open the Facebook app. The Facebook app has a blue icon with a lowercase "f". Tap the icon on your Home screen or Apps menu to open Facebook.
- If you are not automatically logged in, enter the email address and password associated with your Facebook account and tap Log In . If you have two-factor authentication enabled, you will need to retrieve the verification code from your text messages and enter the verification code.
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Tap the ☰ menu. It's the icon with three horizontal lines in the upper-right corner on Android devices and the lower-right corner on iPhone. This displays the menu. [1] X Research sourceAdvertisement
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Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy . It's next to an icon that resembles a gear. This displays a menu of Facebook settings.
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Tap Settings . It's next to an icon that resembles a person. This displays all the general Facebook settings.
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Tap Tab bar . This option is under the Preferences header. From here, you can customize which shortcuts appear in the bar of tabs at the bottom (on iOS) or top (on Android) of the Facebook screen.
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Select Customize the bar . This will allow you to choose which shortcuts appear in the bar.
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Choose items to hide or pin to the bar. On the next screen, look through the list of options that you can pin to the toolbar at the bottom of your screen (such as “Profile,” “Friend requests,” “Groups,” etc.). By default, these are set to automatically appear or disappear from your tab bar based on your activity. Tap the dropdown menu next to each option to change that setting.
- To pin an item to the tab bar, tap the dropdown menu to the right of the item and select Pin . You can choose up to three tabs to pin.
- To hide an item, select Hide . Note that you can’t hide the Notifications tab or the Home tab.
- Use the Auto setting to show or hide an item automatically based on your activity.
- Any tabs that are already hidden will show up under the Hidden header at the bottom of the screen.
- You can also customize your tabs by tapping and holding an icon in the tab bar, then selecting an option from the menu that pops open. Options include Turn off notification dots , Pin to tab bar , Hide from tab bar , or Customize your tab bar .
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Go back and tap Manage notification dots . If you don’t want to see notification dots when there’s new activity on certain tabs, you can toggle them off. To do it, tap the < back arrow at the top left corner of the screen from the Customize the bar menu, then tap Manage notification dots . Toggle the switches on or off next to any of the tabs listed on the next screen to turn notification dots on or off.
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Open the Facebook app. If you want to manage which pages, groups, friends, and chats show up in the Your shortcuts section of the Facebook menu, you can make some limited edits from the mobile app. To quickly remove unwanted shortcuts, launch the mobile app and log in, if you haven’t done so already.
- There’s currently no way to add or pin a shortcut to the menu on the Facebook mobile app.
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Tap the ☰ menu. It’s at the top of the screen in the Android version of the app, and at the bottom on iPhone or iPad.
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Tap and hold a shortcut. At the top of the Menu screen, you’ll see list of square tiles under the header Your shortcuts . Tap and hold any of the tiles you want to remove from the list. A small menu will pop open.
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Select Remove Shortcut . In the menu that opens, tap Remove Shortcut . The group, page, chat, or friend you selected will now disappear from your list of shortcuts.
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Go to https://www.facebook.com in a web browser. If you are already logged in to Facebook, you will see your Facebook feed.
- If you're not automatically logged in, enter the email address and password associated with your Facebook account and click Log In . If you have two-factor authentication enabled, you'll need to get check the verification code in your text messages and enter the verification code.
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Hover over Your shortcuts . It's a header in the menu panel on the left side of the page, near the bottom. There’s a list of pages, groups, and games beneath the header. You might need to scroll down to see it.
- If you don’t see a menu panel on the left side of the page, make sure you’re looking at your feed and not your profile. Click the Facebook icon at the top left corner of the page to get there.
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Click on Edit . It appears to the right of the "Your shortcuts" header when you hover over it. When you click it, a menu will pop up displaying a list of your pages, groups, and games.
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Make changes to your Shortcuts. As you scroll through the list of Pages, groups, and games, use the drop-down menus on the right side of the dialog box to select how you would like to display each item in your Shortcuts menu. You have three options for each item. They are as follows:
- Pin to Top: This option places the item at the top of the Shortcuts menu at all times.
- Sort Automatically: This option lets Facebook decide where the item should be in the Shortcuts menu.
- Hide: This removes the item from the Shortcuts menu completely.
- You can also search for specific pages, games, or groups to edit using the search box at the top of the menu.
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Click Save . It's the blue button at the bottom of the dialog box. This saves your preferences for the Shortcuts menu.
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QuestionI want to delete shortcuts. How do I do this?Community AnswerClick on the shortcuts menu, right click on the link you wish to delete and look for the delete button.
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1. Go to http://www.facebook.com
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2. Hover over Your Shortcuts
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3. Click on Edit
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4. Use the drop-down menus to edit each option.
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