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How to Review Posts you are tagged in Before they appear on your Facebook Timeline



Tagging of someone is a great way of notifying someone about your presence or new post on facebook.
However, some times this tagging could be annoying when ever a friend keeps tagging you on his or her unnecessary post.
However, some times this tagging could be annoying when ever a friend keeps tagging you on his or her unnecessary post.


For example, any user, even without your consent, could easily tag you in any posts having a bad taste. And as soon as you are tagged on that post, it appears on your timeline, and every one of your friends and family could see it. This is something that most of you might want to avoid in the first place. Therefore, reviewing tags before it appear on your Facebook timeline is the best to do.

So without much talk, let's deep into the Tutorial...

How to Review Tags on Facebook

This process involves manually reviewing tags that appear on the Facebook timeline. Here is what needs to be done.

Step 1. Open your Facebook app and tap on the hamburger menu at the top right handside.
Step 2. Scroll to the Settings and Privacy section and tap on Settings.
Scroll to the Settings and Privacy section and tap on Settings

Step 3. Now head over to Timeline and Tagging. This will be under the Privacy section.
Step 4. Under that, scroll to the Tagging section and tap on “Who can see posts you’re tagged in on your timeline“
On that page, you have six options to choose from the review tags feature of Facebook:
Scroll to the Settings and Privacy section and tap on Settings.

  • Everyone: This involve any user, on or off Facebook, could see all the posts you have been tagged in.
  • Friends of Friends: This is the default option. Your friends and their friends as well could view these posts.
  • Friends: This feature involves only your Facebook friends will be able to view post you are tagged in.
  • Friends Except: Creates an exception list that will hide your tagged posts from them.
  • Specific Friends: Creates a whitelist, with only the members of that list who could view the posts you are tagged in.
  • Only Me: This option will hide from everyone, except you. Only you can see posts you are tagged in.

Simply select the option that suit you and close the app. The changes will be applied utomatically. 

But what if you don’t wish to apply the review tags feature on Facebook? Well, there is another tip that you could take, see below.

How to Review Posts you are tagged in  Before they appear on your Facebook Timeline

To do this, follow the instruction on the below image and turn on the review feature so when ever someone tag you on a post, you will receive a notification to review the post before it appears on your Timeline. 
To do this, follow the instruction on the below image and turn on the
So that's it.... This is all about the method on how to effectively manage and review your tags on Facebook. Hopefully this guide is helpful to you.
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