Hide your email addresses on Facebook to prevent contacts from seeing them

Did you know those using Facebook apps on their mobile devices can admission your email address even if it's non displayed on your profile when checking the website? Nigh users of the social network don't.

Headlines have continuously attacked Facebook due to privacy concerns, confusing business relationship settings and other monstrosities, but today we'll expect at a quick tip on how to forbid your email accost existence bachelor to contacts who can view your profile.

Just considering your personal e-mail accost isn't viewable on the website when checking your profile via a spider web browser, don't be fooled into believing your friend's Windows Phone won't pull it down to his (or her) contact list. By default, it seems Facebook'due south settings are configured and then email addresses are invisible to the 'timeline' but are even so bachelor and accessible by friends. And so how does 1 configure email settings on Facebook to prevent them being accessed?

Covering upwards your tracks - configuring emails

To exist able to prevent the social network from revealing email accounts tied to an account, we have to dive into the main profile and configure a few options - this is where it could confuse some users of the social network. We take a screenshot of where the settings are above, which can be located by hitting "Near" on the main timeline page, and then scrolling down to a box on the right-manus side - titled 'Contact info'.

The blueish box represents the selectors to command the level of protection for each private electronic mail address, while the box highlighted in cerise shows controls to toggle whether each address is displayed in this contact information box. Enabling all email addresses to be displayed in the box will practice exactly as it says. This is dependent on the settings that are on the left, in our blue box. Should these exist configured to 'just me', then no one will be able to see your e-mail addresses. Make sense? Good.

Facebook's e-mail privacy controls

We have a number of options representing the level of security that'south desired (these are configurable for each email address associated with the Facebook account):

• Public - email address is viewable by anyone.
• Friends - restricted to accepted friends on your contacts list only.
• Friends except acquaintances - restricted to friends only, though contacts labelled as acquaintances will not be able to see your email accost.
• Only me - email accost is just viewable by yourself, this is the setting nosotros'd choose to mask the ID from mobile devices.

By default (every bit far every bit we're aware) 'Friends' is selected and contacts will be able to meet all added email addresses to a Facebook account. However, by selecting 'Only me' the e-mail address is hidden from view on both the website and in supported applications / services. We tested the iOS and Windows Telephone Facebook apps, every bit well as the integration Windows Phone boasts, and past choosing 'Simply me' we were able to have our email addresses kept safe from view.

Personal email address pulled down by Windows Phone

It's a measure that can be taken to add a layer of security to your electronic mail address, should y'all be paranoid about others actively having admission to information technology. A useful tip to know regardless. Simply call back to configure the privacy settings appropriately, merely hiding the email address from the Facebook timeline volition non forestall apps and services accessing the accost.

Cheers, TschonDoe, for bringing this to our attention.

Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/hide-your-email-addresses-facebook-prevent-contacts-seeing-them

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