\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019ve unbundled the Privacy Settings category and moved the settings previously contained within it into other categories.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a replacement to its centralised privacy settings menu, Facebook said it has added a shortcut to Privacy Checkup at the top of the Settings landing page.<\/p>\n
This is \u201cto more easily guide you through important privacy and security settings on Facebook,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n
The move to scatter privacy settings across several menus in Facebook\u2019s apps comes after the company specifically centralised them in 2018<\/strong><\/a> in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Facebook said it is changing the layout of its settings menu to make its tools easier to find.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve streamlined the layout while keeping all the previous settings,\u201d Facebook said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether it\u2019s managing the ads people see, adjusting sharing settings, or curating an audience for posts, people shouldn\u2019t have to think too hard about where to start.\u201d<\/p>\n The company said it reduced the number of categories and renamed them to better match people\u2019s mental models.<\/p>\n Settings are grouped into six broad categories: Account, Preferences, Audience and Visibility, Permissions, Your Information, and Community Standards and Legal Policies.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve also relocated several standalone settings so that they live alongside related settings,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n For example, the News Feed setting, which previously lived in its own small category, now lives under Preferences grouped with similar settings.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve also made some improvements to the settings search function, making it easier to find the settings you need if you don\u2019t know the exact name or location of the setting you\u2019re looking for,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n The Facebook Settings redesign has started rolling out for Android, iOS, mobile web and FB Lite.<\/p>\n Facebook is scattering privacy settings across several menus in its app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":392469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317,27],"tags":[161,68516],"class_list":["post-408784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-security","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408792,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408784\/revisions\/408792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Facebook-settings-redesign.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: Time to read WhatsApp\u2019s privacy policy<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"