How To Delete A Facebook Page? [in 2022]

There are multiple reasons why you might want to delete a Facebook page. Whatever your reasons, we will explain everything in this article about deleting Facebook pages. In this Facebook business page tutorial we will also cover:

• how to delete a Facebook page? (step by step process)
• What happens when you delete a Facebook page?
• Alternative solutions to deleting a Facebook page

If you prefer to watch a video on how to delete a Facebook page, check out this one:

How to delete a Facebook Page?

Here is how to delete a Facebook page:

1. Open the Facebook page
2. Scroll down the left sidebar, and click on ‘Settings’ with the gear icon

4. Scroll down on the ‘General’ page settings
5. Click on ‘Remove page’
6. Click on Delete [your page]
7. Confirm that you want to delete your page.

What happens when you delete a Facebook page?

When you delete your Facebook page, you have to confirm the deletion of the Facebook page as you can see in the picture above.

The Facebook page won’t be immediately deleted as you will have 14 days to restore the page, and even after the 14 days, you will be asked to confirm that you want to delete the Facebook page permanently.

So, make sure you really want to delete a Facebook Business page, before you would permanently delete it, as then Facebook will really delete the Facebook page forever, you won’t be able to restore it, see your previously published posts, get back your Facebook fans and followers.

Alternatives to deleting a Facebook page

For these reasons, you should also consider the alternative solutions that are similar to deleting your Facebook Business pages which are:

• merge two Facebook pages
• change the name of your Facebook page
• unpublish a Facebook page.

If you are interested in the details of the above processes, check out the linked tutorials or keep reading as we over them here quickly as well..

Merge two Facebook Business pages

When you have two similar pages with similar topics covered and both of them have the same address, you have the opportunity to merge these pages together. To merge two Facebook pages:

1. Click on this link: facebook.com/pages/merge
2. Choose the two pages you would like to merge

3. Click on Continue then Request merge

Once two Facebook pages have been merged, it cannot be undone.

Change the name of a Facebook Business Page

If you want to change the name of your Facebook page, you can easily do that as well. If the name of your business or your website changes its name, but the main offering of the business doesn’t change, the best thing you can do is to change the name of the Facebook page.

This way, you won’t lose any of your previous FB posts, and most importantly your existing Facebook followers. To change the name of a Facebook page:

1. From your Facebook newsfeed click on ‘Pages’ on the left side of the screen

2. Select the page you want to change the name of
3. Scroll down the left sidebar, and click on ‘Settings’ with the gear icon
4. Click on ‘Page info’
5. Here you can edit the name of the page and even the username or the description of your page.

6. Review your name change request and click Request Change.

Unpublish a Facebook Business Page

The third alternative you have to a Facebook Business page deletion is to unpublish the Facebook page. Unpublishing a Facebook page means that your Facebook page won’t be visible to the public and even to people who liked your Facebook page before. It will only be visible to people who manage the Facebook page.

To unpublish a Facebook page, do the following:

1. From your Facebook newsfeed click on ‘Pages’ on the left side of the screen
2. Select the page you want to unpublish
3. Scroll down the left sidebar, and click on ‘Settings’ with the gear icon
4. In the ‘General’ tab click on ‘Page Visibility’.
5. Select ‘Page Unpublished’

You can change back the status of the page to ‘Published’ whenever you wish to do so. Just follow the same process we have outlined above and select ‘Published’.

Frequently Asked Questions: How to delete a Facebook Business Page?