Again, you’ll need to do it twice, once on the Facebook App and again on Messenger. You can learn how to turn off that settings here. Lastly, you’ll need to prevent Facebook from continuously re-uploading your contacts.
You’ll need to repeat this step for contacts you’ve uploaded through Facebook Messenger, which you can do here. At the bottom of the screen, there’s an option to “Remove all contacts,” though you can also choose to manually remove specific ones. First, head over to Facebook’s “ Manage Invites and Imported Contacts” page. The first place to start is your contacts. Keep in mind that Facebook says it plans to soon make it easier to delete data, but for now, the process is fairly cumbersome. Now that you’ve looked through your Facebook data, here’s how to delete some of it. Here's what I found looking through mine, and tips for how to find the most interesting information in yours. That's far from the only interesting piece of information you might find by sorting through your Facebook file.
Over the weekend, some Android users were shocked to learn that Facebook retained metadata about their call and SMS history. Part of the rollout includes a new tool called Access Your Information, which allows users to more easily view and delete old posts, reactions, comments, and search history.įor now though, your Facebook data is still likely filled of surprises. The social network also plans to add an option for users to transfer the data to another service if they want. But while the social network makes it fairly simple to download everything it knows about you, it doesn't provide a roadmap for how to parse that data or figure out what it means.įacebook announced Wednesday, however, that in the coming weeks, it will expand the data it allows you to download to include likes, reactions, search history, and location history. In the wake of the scandal over Facebook's privacy practices, users have become newly interested in the data that Facebook collects and retains about them. You've likely heard by now about Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy, Trump-affiliated data analysis firm that reportedly siphoned off information belonging to 50 million Facebook users, according to The Guardian and Observer, along with The New York Times.
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