How to delete a story on facebook?

The idea behind Story on Facebook is to share short clips or photos on your profile for your friends to see. This is based on your emotion, inspiration, etc. You may want to share precious memories with your friends. Unfortunately, you've posted the wrong one and want to delete it at all costs, but how?

If you don't know how to remove your Facebook story, this guide will tell you!

On a rather similar subject, don't hesitate to discover among our articles how to create a Facebook page !

Image illustration of a Facebook story deletion
Image showing how to delete a Facebook story

How do I delete a story on my Facebook account from my computer?

Here are the steps to remove a photo or video from your story that you accidentally posted or just want to delete:

  1. First of all, connect to your Facebook account;
  2. Go to the Story at the top of your feed;
  3. Then click on the Your Story ;
  4. Then, locate the video or photo you wish to delete;
  5. Then click on the three horizontal points in the photo or video, which is located in the upper part of the interface;
  6. Finally, click on Delete the video or photo to delete the Story directly.

For your information, when you delete a Story on Facebook, it will also be deleted from Messenger. Plus, changes made on Facebook sync to Messenger.

How to delete a Story from your iPhone / Android?

These next guides will show you how to delete a Story on other devices, including the iPhone. To give you an idea, here's how it's done:

  1. Launch Facebook on your smartphone ;
  2. Click on your Story at the top of the account's news feed;
  3. Next, click on the photo or video you wish to delete;
  4. Then click on the settings by clicking on the three points aligned horizontally ;
  5. Finally, click on the option to To delete video or photo.

How can I avoid archiving this story?

Now you know how to delete a story on Facebook, you need to make sure that your story is not archived on your Facebook account. To do this, you need to disable the Story archiving function. Here's how to do it:

  1. First of all, launch the Facebook application on your device. If necessary, log in to your ;
  2. Then click on the three horizontal lines which are located on the lower right-hand side of the interface;
  3. Then click on the profile name account ;
  4. Click on the three points just below the cover photo;
  5. The next step is to click on the Archive ;
  6. Click on Stories archive on the upper part;
  7. Click on the three dots at the top right, then on Settings ;
  8. Finally, disable Save to archive.

Now you know how to delete a story and disable its archiving on Facebook. Also, find out ways to boost your Facebook account to increase your visibility on this platform among our articles.

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