Manage privacy settings for your Meta Horizon profile
Manage your privacy settings
You can choose how social you want to be and how your information is shared with others through your privacy settings.
Your privacy settings will apply anywhere your Meta Horizon profile is used.
You can manage your privacy settings in Privacy Centre. You can also manage your settings in the Meta Horizon app, Meta Quest and in Meta Horizon Worlds.
Learn about privacy settings for a child's Meta account.
To manage your privacy settings:
- On your phone, open the Meta Horizon mobile app.
- Tap
Menu at the top of your Horizon Feed.
- Scroll down to Privacy and security, then tap Privacy settings.
- Select a setting.
About the privacy settings
Profile
You can make your Meta Horizon profile public or private.
If you set your profile to public:
- Anyone can follow you without your approval.
- Any pending follow requests will automatically be approved.
If you set your profile to private:
- You'll receive requests to approve followers.
- Only your followers can see your posts, app activity and list of following and followers.
- People can still search for your name or username and send you follow requests.
- Your profile information such as your name, username, bio, profile picture and avatar will remain public.
Regardless of what kind of profile you have, you can hide your activity for specific apps with the Hide app activity setting. Hiding your activity for specific apps will prevent followers from seeing the name of that app or the destination you're in if your Active Status is set to joinable. You can unhide your activity for specific apps at any time.
Note: If you're between the ages of 13 and 17, your Meta Horizon profile is set to private by default. You can change your profile to public at any time in Settings.
Active Status
Your Active Status allows you to share when you're online or were recently online.
When you're online or joinable, your followers will see a 
You can choose the following Active Status settings:
- Appear offline: You will appear offline anywhere the Meta Horizon profile is used.
- Online: Your followers will see when you're online or were recently online.
- Joinable: Your followers will see when you're online or recently online and what app or destination you're in. They may also be able to join you where you are in certain mixed reality or mobile app experiences.
- You can choose to only allow followers that you follow back to join you without an invitation.
If you're between the ages of 13 and 17, your Active Status is set to appear offline by default. You can change this at any time in Settings.
Note: Even if your Active Status is set to appear offline, your location in specific apps will still be shown to others who are using the same app that you're currently in. Other apps may also have their own Active Status setting, such as Messenger.
Hide app activity
You can hide your activity for specific apps whether you have a public or private profile.
To hide your app activity:
- On your phone, open the Meta Horizon mobile app.
- Tap
- Scroll down to Privacy and security, then tap Privacy settings.
- Tap Hide app activity, then use the toggles to hide specific apps.
When you select an app to hide activity for, Hidden will appear below the app name.
Note: If you choose to hide your app activity, your activities in these apps may still be visible to others when they're using the same app as you (e.g. your scores on the leaderboard).