How To Leave A Facebook Group? [in 2022]

Written by: Emily Anderson
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If you no longer want to be a member of a Facebook group, you can just simply leave the Facebook group.

In this Facebook group tutorial, we are going to show you how to leave a Facebook group.

Without further ado, let’s dive in.

How to leave a Facebook group?

So if you want to leave a Facebook group completely, here is the step by step you have to do:

  1. Open the Facebook group you want to leave
  2. Click on the ‘Joined’ button.
  3. Select ‘Leave group’how to leave a Facebook group
  4. Confirm that you want to leave the group by clicking on ‘Leave Group’ again.confirm leaving the Facebook group

If everything went smoothly, you should no longer be a member of the Facebook group.

The page should be refreshed in a couple of seconds and you should no longer see the posts in the group if it is a public Facebook group.

If it is a private Facebook group, you will still be able to see the posts in the Facebook group.

Join a Facebook group after leaving it

If you change your mind and want to be a member of the Facebook group again, no worries, you can join again.

Here is how to join back to a Facebook group:

  1. Open the Facebook group you have left.
  2. Click on ‘Join Group’.
  3. Answer any necessary questions.
  4. Click on ‘Submit’.

If the admins approve your request, you should be able to join the group even after you have left it.

Can’t leave a Facebook group

There shouldn’t be any issues with leaving the Facebook group.

The only scenario when you can’t leave a Facebook group is when you are the only Facebook group admin of the group.

In this case, add someone as a Facebook group admin first, then you can leave the Facebook group any time you want.

Leaving vs Unfollowing a Facebook group?

If you still want to be a member of the Facebook group, but you just hate it that the posts of the group keep showing up in your Facebook group then you should unfollow the Facebook group instead of quitting it.

Here you can find a tutorial on how to do that:

How to stop being added to a Facebook group?

Have you just left a Facebook group, but someone keeps adding you back into the Facebook group?

We have a separate tutorial on that on what you can do this in case.

How To Stop Someone From Adding You To Groups On Facebook?

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