How to Turn Memories Off (and Back On)

While Memories can be a wonderful way to recall fun times, exciting news, or great accomplishments, you may also have difficult memories from times in your life that you don’t necessarily want to be reminded of. It’s easy to turn the Memories feature off. Here’s how:

How to Block Memories Involving Certain People or Dates

From the same page, you can block Memories related to certain people or dates. Here’s how:

All Memories: Facebook notifies you no more than once a day regarding your Memories.Highlights: Facebook only notifies you about special videos or collections.None: Facebook does not notify you of any Memories.

Remove Certain Memories

You can remove specific Memories by either deleting the corresponding post or by removing notifications for it. While you cannot scroll through your collection of Memories, you can search for or navigate to the post in your Timeline and change its settings. Use the Search Profile function (indicated by a magnifying glass on your profile page) to locate the post. Once you’ve found the post, select the Settings button (indicated by three horizontal dots), and then select Turn off notifications for this post. Select Delete post to permanently delete it.