How to Turn Off Comments on a Facebook Post
Turn off comments on a Facebook post from the audience menu, or limit who can comment instead of disabling them entirely. Works on individual posts and Pages.
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Quick answer
Where to click
- three-dot menu
- Who can comment on this post?
- choose a level
Facebook renames these menus periodically. If a label does not match, read the screen you are on rather than forcing this exact wording.
The options range from Public down to Only people and Pages you mention, with Friends and Profiles and Pages you follow in between. Choosing the most restrictive option effectively turns comments off for anyone outside it.
Full range of options
Facebook does not offer a single hard "no comments" switch — instead it offers a scale, which is usually more useful:
- Public — anyone, including non-friends.
- Friends — only people you are friends with.
- Friends except — friends, minus a list you choose.
- Profiles and Pages you follow — a narrower circle than friends.
- Only people and Pages you mention — the most restrictive option; in practice this is "off" for everyone except people named in the post itself.
Pick the last one if the goal is genuinely no public discussion under a specific post.
Why per-post instead of a global switch
Comment settings live with each post because the right answer changes post to post — a birthday photo probably wants friends commenting, while a public announcement might want no comments at all. There is no account-wide "always disable comments" setting; each post carries its own.
If the problem is one person, not everyone
Turning off comments for everyone is a blunt fix for a narrow problem. If a specific person is the issue:
- [Restrict them](/privacy/restrict-someone-on-facebook) — they lose visibility into Friends-only posts entirely, comments included, with no notification.
- Hide a specific comment — three-dot menu on the comment itself, without changing settings for anyone else.
- Block their comments only — some posts offer a "Ban from commenting" option scoped to that one post.
These solve "this person, on this post" without shutting the conversation down for everyone else.
On a Facebook Page
Pages have the same per-post control plus two extras: a profanity filter and a hidden words list, both under Page settings → Moderation. These catch things automatically instead of requiring per-comment moderation, which matters more at Page scale than on a personal profile.
Official source
Meta's comment settings documentation covers the current option set. What appears in your own post's menu is the final authority.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I turn off comments on just one post?
- Yes. The setting is per-post, in the same menu as the audience selector. Other posts are unaffected.
- Does turning off comments delete existing ones?
- No. Comments already posted stay visible; disabling comments only prevents new ones from being added.
- Can I limit who can comment instead of disabling entirely?
- Yes — the same menu offers options between full comments and none, including friends-only commenting or profiles you follow.
- Does this work the same way on a Page as a personal profile?
- The setting exists on both, though Pages have a few extra moderation tools — like a hidden-words filter — that personal profiles do not.