Facebook Events are a useful way to inform colleagues or loved ones about events you’ll host, whether online or offline. You can set the privacy settings to private or public. Thus, a common question appears – How do you change the privacy settings of an event on Facebook? We’ll discuss that in this article. And also discuss How Do You Change a Facebook Event From Private to Public?
Creating A Facebook Event
Before we get to talks about privacy, let’s first lay out how a Facebook event is created. To create one, you have to:
- Launch Facebook.
- Log in to your account.
- Tap the icon with the three horizontal lines at the lower right of your screen.
- Select Events.
- Tap the floating icon at the lower right to start creating an event.
- Input the details of your event.
You can see a Privacy section at the bottom of the details page. Upon tapping it, you will be directed to a page where you can choose the privacy settings of your event. The options are Private Events and Public Events.
The best way to ensure that your event is public is to secure it from the event creation stage. Make sure that you have set your event to “Public Event” before finishing up and posting your event. Now let’s learn How Do You Change a Facebook Event From Private to Public?
Changing From Private to Public Event
Unfortunately, you cannot change a private event to the public once it has been posted. You can, however, cancel the event post and recreate a new event with the same details. Only this time, it will be set as a public event. So how do we cancel an event? Here are the steps:
- Launch Facebook.
- Log in to the account you used to post the event.
- Tap the icon with the three horizontal lines at the lower right of your screen.
- Select Events.
- Choose Hosting among the tabs at the top of the page.
- Select the event from the list and tap Edit.
- Select Cancel Event.
- Leave a note to your guests about the cancellation and planned repost before finally confirming the cancellation.
Once you have cancelled or deleted the event, you can immediately post another event with the same details and correct privacy settings.
FAQs On Changing Facebook event
Strangely, users can freely change Facebook events from public to private but not the other way around.
Cancelled events will still retain the notes left by the host and the comments by other members.
Go to your Events page, find your event, then select Edit. Change the privacy settings.
Yes, you can. You can assign Co-hosts through the Events page.
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