How to Ban Someone on a Facebook Page

Facebook’s group management tools make it easy to add and subtract from your group’s roster of members. Whether you’re on a desktop computer or mobile device, you can manage who gets to take part in your profile and who will be left out of the conversation.

How to Ban Using the Members Page

As a page admin, you have a range of moderation tools at your disposal. If suspensions and activity limitations aren’t enough to alleviate the issue, it takes a few mouse clicks to remove someone from the group.

How to Ban Someone from Their Post

In the event a person posts something so egregious that it warrants immediate action, you can block them directly from the post in question.

How to Ban Someone In the App

Scroll to the offending post and tap the three dots to the top right of the post. A menu will pop up from the bottom of the screen with a long list of options. Select Delete post and block user. Then, you will be brought back to the page with a pop-up window confirming you want to block that person from the page.

How to Unban Someone from a Facebook Group

Sometimes a person makes good and is willing to play by your group’s rules. If that’s the case, you can always unban and unblock them from your page.

Unbanning on the Website

From the group page, select the Members tab to access the group’s entire roster. To the right on the Members page is the list of blocked individuals. Click on the Unblock button next to the appropriate user and confirm you want to bring them back into the group.

Unbanning via Mobile Device

While on your group’s main page, tap on the Members option to see the whole roster of users. Once there, tap on the Blocked button to see all blocked individuals. Then, find the correct person you’d like to bring back into the group and tap Remove block. You will have to confirm your selection.