How To Remove, Reset Or Increase Facebook Ad Spending Limit Restriction?

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Facebook Ad Spending limit can be useful to control the spending of your Facebook Ad Account. But what if you have reached the spending limit but want to run Facebook ad campaigns again?

In this Facebook Ads tutorial, we are going to show you:

  • How to increase the Facebook Ad Account Spending limit
  • How to reset the spending limit on your Facebook ad account
  • How to remove Facebook ad spending limit restriction completely.

Without further ado, let’s dive in.

How to restart Facebook ads when you have reached the Facebook Ad Account spending limit?

So as you probably know when you reach the spending limit on your Facebook ad account, all of your Facebook ad campaigns in the ad account will stop delivering.

So if you want to restart the paused Facebook ad campaigns, you have three choices:

  1. Increase the spending limit in your Ad Account
  2. Reset the spending limit so it starts from 0.
  3. Remove the Ad account spending limit completely

We will show all of these options step by step in the paragraphs below.

If you want to learn more about how the Facebook Ad Account Spending limit works, check out our tutorial on it where we show you how it works and how to set the ad spending limit for your ad account:

How to increase the Facebook Ad Spending limit?

Here is how to increase the spending limit of your Facebook Ad account:

  1. Open the Facebook Ads Manager.
  2. Click on ‘Billing’ from the hamburger menu.Billing from Facebook Ads Manager
  3. Click on ‘Payment settings’.
  4. In the ‘Account Spending limit’ section, click on the three dots.
  5. Select ‘Change’change facebook ad spending limit
  6. Increase the ad spending limit amount.
  7. Click on ‘Save’.

With this, you have successfully increased the spending limit of your Facebook ad account. So the Facebook ad campaigns should start running again after around 15 minutes you have made the change to the spending limit.

How to reset the Facebook Ad Account Spending limit?

The second option is to reset the Facebook spending limit, so the ‘Amount Spent’ resets to 0 USD which means that you can spend the complete spending limit amount again before the Facebook ad campaigns would pause again.

Here is how to reset the Facebook ad spending limit:

  1. Open the Facebook Ads Manager.
  2. Click on ‘Billing’ from the hamburger menu.
  3. Click on ‘Payment settings’.
  4. In the ‘Account Spending limit’ section, click on the three dots.
  5. Select ‘Reset’.
  6. Confirm that you want to reset the spending limit

How to remove Facebook Ad Account Spending limit completely?

Last but not least, you can remove the Facebook spending limit completely, so you don’t have to deal with this at all.

So here is how you remove the Facebook Ad Account spending limit:

  1. Open the Facebook Ads Manager.
  2. Click on ‘Billing’ from the hamburger menu.
  3. Click on ‘Payment settings’.
  4. In the ‘Account Spending limit’ section, click on the three dots.
  5. Select ‘Remove’.remove facebook ad account spending limit
  6. Confirm that you want to remove the Facebook ad spending limit from your Ad account.remove Facebook ad account spending limits

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