How to delete comments on Facebook: posts, ads and your Page

To delete a comment on Facebook, go to the post and press and hold the comment in the app (on a computer, click Options, the three dots beside it), then select Delete. You can remove your own comments anywhere, plus other people's comments on your profile, your Page's posts and your ads. A deleted comment can't be restored.

Removing a comment you wrote? The first how-to section is enough. Managing a Page or ad campaigns? The steps differ between the app, a computer, Meta Business Suite and Ads Manager, and deleting is not always the smartest move.

Which comments can you delete on Facebook?

You can delete a comment if you wrote it, or if it sits under something you control: a post on your profile, a post on your Page or one of your ads. Under anyone else's post, the only option left is to report it to Meta.

The line between Facebook access and task access comes from Meta's help page on deleting Page comments: managing a Page only through tasks gives no right to hide, sort or delete its comments.

How to delete your own comment on Facebook

Meta publishes one procedure for any comment you posted, whoever owns the post (Delete or edit my comment below a Facebook post).

In the Facebook app (iPhone or Android)

1. Tap the post that contains your comment.

2. Tap and hold your comment.

3. Select Delete, then tap Delete again to confirm.

On a computer

1. Find your comment under the post.

2. Click Options beside it.

3. Select Delete, then click Delete to confirm.

Only a typo to fix? Choose Edit in the same menu and correct the text instead.

How to find and delete an old comment

When you no longer remember the post, go through your activity log. Click your profile picture, open Settings & privacy, then Activity log, choose the category that holds your comments and click Options next to the one to remove. According to Meta's activity log guide, anything deleted from there is deleted from Facebook for good.

How to delete a comment on your Facebook Page

First, act as the Page: click your profile picture, choose See all profiles and select the Page. Then follow Meta's steps for your device (Delete a comment from a post on your Facebook Page).

In the app

1. Go to the post with the comment.

2. Tap and hold the comment, then select Delete.

3. Confirm by tapping Delete.

On a computer

1. Open the post on your Page.

2. Click Options to the right of the comment.

3. Select Delete.

The same menu clears comments under posts on your personal profile, as Meta's profile comments page shows. Deleting does not stop the author from commenting again; blocking does, and it is compared with the other options further down.

How to delete comments in Meta Business Suite

The Business Suite Inbox lists your Page's posts together with their comments, so you can work through several posts without opening each one on Facebook. Meta requires community activity permission on the Page (Manage comments in Inbox in Meta Business Suite).

1. Open Meta Business Suite and click Inbox in the left menu.

2. Check that the right Page is selected, using the dropdown at the top left of the menu.

3. Click the Facebook comments tab.

4. Click a post to show its comments. Filters such as Unread, Follow up and Spam narrow the list.

5. Click Options on the comment and select Delete.

The Instagram comments tab works the same way for a connected Instagram account. Meta's list of inbox filters covers Page and group comments but says nothing about ads, so handle dark posts from Ads Manager.

How to delete comments on Facebook ads and dark posts

Ads Manager can't delete a comment on its own: its comment window (More options, then Manage Facebook comments) offers only Hide comment and Report comment, per Meta's page on ad comments. To delete, open the ad as a regular post:

1. In Ads Manager, open the Ads tab, select the ad and click Edit.

2. In the preview, click Share, then See post. The ad opens in a new browser tab (Preview a published ad in Meta Ads Manager).

3. Make sure you are acting as the Page that runs the ad.

4. Click Options next to the comment and select Delete.

Dark posts never appear on your Page, so their comments pile up where nobody looks; to track them down, read how to monitor comments on Facebook ads. If you would rather an ad received no comments at all, our article on turning off comments on Facebook explains what Meta currently allows advertisers.

Hide, delete, block or restrict: what each one does

Deleting is one of four tools, and the only one you can't take back. Here is how they compare, based on Meta's help pages on hiding, blocking from a Page and the Restricted list.

Hiding is where most brands start. Our guide on what happens when you hide a comment on Facebook covers who can still see it and how to unhide it.

Why deleting a comment can backfire

Facebook doesn't alert anyone when their comment is deleted, but people who wrote a complaint tend to check back. When they find it missing, the sequence is familiar:

• The comment returns, angrier. The author posts again, often opening with "they deleted my comment", and the original complaint now carries an accusation of censorship.

• Screenshots outlive deletions. Anyone who saw the comment can repost it on their own profile, in a group or on another network, where you can't moderate and your reply is absent.

• Your answer disappears with it. A fair complaint handled in public shows other customers how you treat problems; once deleted, it shows them nothing.

• You lose the evidence. A deleted threat can no longer be reviewed or escalated. Take a screenshot and report it to Meta before removing it.

Meta's own advice for ad comments puts hiding first: review hidden comments later and decide whether to keep, unhide or delete them (best practices for comment moderation on your ads). When criticism deserves a reply rather than removal, see how to respond to negative comments for wording that calms a thread down.

Can you delete all comments on Facebook at once?

No. Facebook has no button that erases every comment on a post or a Page. These are the bulk options that do exist:

• Delete the post. Its comments go with it, which only makes sense when the post itself is the problem.

• Remove a group member with their recent activity. When an admin or moderator removes or bans someone, ticking Delete recent activity erases that person's posts, comments, reactions, polls and pending invitations from the last 7 days (Meta's group help).

• Work through the Business Suite Inbox. Deletion stays one comment at a time, but the Spam filter gathers what Meta has already flagged.

• Clean up your own history. Your comments come off one by one in the activity log. The multi-select in Manage Activity is described for posts, photos and videos, and Meta warns that not every item can be moved to Trash (Manage Activity).

• Filter future comments. Blocked keywords, the profanity filter and Moderation Assist act automatically, but they hide comments and never delete them, and Moderation Assist only applies to comments posted after a rule exists (Moderation Assist). Setup is explained in our Facebook comment filter guide, and the free comment blocklist generator drafts a keyword list for your niche.

Anything beyond that, such as deleting automatically or across dozens of posts, needs a third-party tool working through Meta's API.

What changes when you moderate comments at scale

Deleting by hand works while a Page gets a handful of comments a day. Three things break that routine:

• Many posts. Comments keep landing on posts that are weeks old, which nobody reopens.

• Ads. Every live ad has its own thread, dark posts included, and campaigns run at night and on weekends. A scam comment left until Monday is shown to the audience you are paying to reach.

• Several moderators. Without written rules, one person hides what another deletes. Decide per category (spam, abuse, complaints, personal data) which action applies and who answers; our Facebook comment moderation guide helps set those rules.

Blabla's usage data shows what fills those queues. In a random sample of comments its paying customers hid, about 45% were negative in tone, while only about 5% mentioned money, crypto or investments. Most of what brands take down is hostility, not scams: comments that should leave the public thread but rarely need to vanish for good.

Where Blabla fits

Blabla links to your Page with Meta's official permissions, reads each new comment as it arrives, day and night, and applies the action you chose for the matching rule: hide trolling, delete scam links or posted phone numbers. A rule can be a list of keywords or an instruction in everyday words, for example "delete any comment that shares a phone number". It works under regular posts and under ads, dark posts included (ad comments need the Pro plan). Every hide and delete is logged, so a teammate can check later what went and why. For a quiet Page, Facebook's native settings are enough. Past that, see Blabla for Facebook Pages, for ad comment moderation and for moderation across your networks.

Conclusion

Removing a Facebook comment takes three taps or clicks once you know where to look, and Ads Manager is the only place that needs a detour. Before you tap, ask one question: must this comment disappear even for its author's friends? If yes, delete it. If not, hide it and keep the record.