How to Hide the Facebook News Feed (Without Deleting Anything)
Short answer: Facebook has no setting that removes the News Feed. You have two real options: unfollow everyone, which empties the feed on Facebook's own terms but takes hours and gets refilled with suggestions — or hide the feed region in your browser, which is instant and reversible.
The reason you keep looking for that setting and not finding it is that the feed is the product. Everything else — messages, events, Marketplace, groups, the friend you actually wanted to look up — works fine without it.
Option one: unfollow everyone
Unfollowing keeps the friendship and stops the posts. Do it to every friend, page and group and your feed goes quiet natively.
What it costs:
- It's per-person. Hundreds of clicks, and every new friend arrives followed.
- It doesn't stay empty. Facebook fills the space with suggested posts, Reels and groups you never followed.
Unfollowing controls the part of the feed you chose. It does nothing to the part Facebook chose for you.
Option two: hide the feed
The feed is one region of the page. Hide that region and the rest of Facebook is untouched — top bar, search, Messenger, notifications, Marketplace, every profile and group.
The honest description of what that does:
- It is visual. The posts are still delivered to your browser; you don't see them.
- It does not reduce what Facebook collects. You are still logged in, still loading the page.
- It is instantly reversible. Nothing is unfollowed, unfriended or changed on your account.
If your goal is "stop scrolling", visual is enough — a feed can't pull you in if it isn't rendered. If your goal is "Facebook knows less about me", neither hiding nor unfollowing is the tool; that's a question about what you log into at all.
What about "Most recent"?
Switching to Most recent changes the ordering, not the existence. It is genuinely better than the ranked feed if you want a feed at all — chronological, nothing resurfaced from three days ago. But Facebook returns you to the default view regularly, so it behaves less like a setting and more like a preference you keep re-stating.
The combination that works
- Hide the feed, so the default screen is empty.
- Hide stories and suggestions too — they are separate regions, and leaving them re-creates the scroll in a smaller box.
- Leave everything else alone, so Facebook stays useful for whatever you open it for.
CleanFeed does that on Facebook, and the same on Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X and LinkedIn — a switch per section, so you decide whether stories and the groups feed go with it. Free, and there's no account.