About status privacy

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You can choose who can see your status by adding them to your status audience or mentioning people or groups in your status. By default, your status updates are shared with all your contacts.
Note:
  • People or groups you mention in your status can reshare it to their audience.
  • Resharing allows their audience to see the content of your status, but doesn’t reveal your name, profile info or phone number.
  • You can mention people who aren’t in your contacts.
  • If someone with a phone number you don't recognize can view your status updates, it might be because a contact changed their phone number.

Change your status privacy

You can share your status with all contacts or limit your audience to specific contacts and groups. When you add a group to your status audience, any member of that group becomes eligible to see your status, but only those members who have saved you as a contact will see your status.
  1. Tap Updates.
  2. Tap
    more
    > Status Privacy.
  3. Select one of the following options:
    • My contacts: All contacts can see your status.
    • My contacts except…: Choose contacts to exclude from your status audience.
    • Only share with…: Choose contacts or group members to share statuses with.
Note:
  • When a member leaves a group in your audience, they're removed from your audience.
  • When a member joins a group in your audience, they're added to your audience, as long as they have you saved as a contact.
  • Adding groups to status audience is not supported on linked devices or companion phones.

Share status updates to Facebook Stories and other apps

If you share your status update to your Facebook story, your status update will use the existing story privacy settings that you've chosen on Facebook. Learn about information shared when you share your status update to Facebook.
Note:
  • Changes to your privacy settings won’t affect status updates you’ve sent already.
  • If you choose to mention people or groups in a status, they can see your status—even if they aren’t in your status audience. When you mention a group, all the group members can see the status. This won’t change the audience settings for future status updates. Learn more about status mentions here.
  • If you delete a contact who has viewed an update, the contact will remain on the list of viewers until the update expires.
  • If a contact has disabled read receipts, you won't be able to see if they've viewed your status updates. This includes statuses where you’ve privately mentioned someone directly.
  • Adding groups to status audience is not supported on linked devices or companion phones.

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