{"id":51181,"date":"2021-12-29T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=51181"},"modified":"2025-04-18T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:04:08","slug":"facebook-lock-your-profile-feature-now-available-in-mena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/facebook-lock-your-profile-feature-now-available-in-mena\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u201cLock Your Profile\u201d feature now available in MENA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To emphasise the company&#8217;s dedication to user well-being, Meta is reiterating the security and privacy settings offered to Facebook users. The new &#8220;Lock Your Profile&#8221; function is for those who want greater control over their Facebook app experience, especially women. The feature is now available in seven MENA countries: Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/tag\/uae\/\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of the advantages, along with some pointers on how to make it happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new &#8220;Lock Your Profile&#8221; function restricts access to your profile, allowing you to control your own app experience at your leisure.<\/li><li>Non-friends can&#8217;t zoom into, share, or download your profile or cover photographs if this functionality is enabled.<\/li><li>They won&#8217;t be able to see any of the photos you&#8217;ve shared on your timeline at any time (both historic and new).<\/li><li>Women, in particular, may now manage who sees their personal information and prevent it from being misused by strangers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook - Lock Your Profile feature - MENA - techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-51187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to use the \u201cLock Your Profile\u201d feature<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Simply tap the three dots under your name to enable this new feature.<\/li><li>You should see the Lock Your Profile option in the three-dot menu; click it.<\/li><li>This page will demonstrate how locking works, with a Lock Your Profile option at the bottom. Select it by clicking on it.<\/li><li>Your account has been locked.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins1-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg\" alt=\"ins1 - Facebook - Lock Your Profile feature - MENA - techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-51191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins1-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins1-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins1-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To achieve the same result, go to &#8216;Settings and Privacy,&#8217; then &#8216;Audience and Visibility,&#8217; then &#8216;Profile Locking.&#8217;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to unlock your profile<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li>You will now see an Unlock Profile option instead of the Lock Your Profile option.<\/li><li>On the following screen, tap it and select Unlock.<\/li><li>At the bottom of the page, you&#8217;ll find a brief explanation of how unlocking your profile works, as well as the option to Unlock Your Profile.<\/li><li>Your profile will be accessible once you click on it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg\" alt=\"ins - Facebook - Lock Your Profile feature - MENA - techxmedia\" class=\"wp-image-51188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ins-Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia-768x442.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember that if you enable this option, you won&#8217;t be able to make any public posts. This is done to prevent any unintentional posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Lock Your Profile&#8221; function is for those who want greater control over their Facebook app experience, especially women. The feature is available in seven MENA countries: Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, KSA, Sudan, Turkey, and UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9685],"tags":[639,9493,389,3231,73],"contributor":[9732],"class_list":["post-51181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-middle-east","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-meta","tag-mena","tag-social-media","tag-uae","contributor-news-desk"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Facebook-Lock-Your-Profile-feature-MENA-techxmedia.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"News Desk","author_link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/author\/rabab\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51181"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=51181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}