Create and manage a community in Meta Horizon
As a community admin, moderating the community is an essential part of ensuring that all members feel welcome and protected. With our admin tools, the community creator can add, remove and ban members, delete messages, add additional admins, and edit settings or delete the community.
We expect everyone including users, creators, admins and developers, to adhere to our values of voice, safety, authenticity, dignity and privacy. If community admins suspect that someone may be violating the Code of Conduct for Virtual Experiences or engaging in behaviour that compromises the well-being of others, admins can report them to Meta.
Create a community
To create a community:
- From the Meta Horizon app, tap
Chats, then tap Communities.
- Tap New Communities.
- Select a world or app that you want to build your community around.
- Enter your community name, then enter a description.
- To customize your community image, tap
Edit on the community image and select a new photo for your community.
- If you want to control who joins your community, select the toggle to Require admin approval to join, then tap Next.
- Invite people you want to join your community, then tap Next.
- If you want to skip this step for now, you can use the invite link on the community detail page to invite others after the community is created.
- When you’re done, tap Create community.
From here, you can send messages, invite people to games and join the voice chat.
Manage members and messages
To add or deny a community membership request:
- From the Meta Horizon app, tap
- Tap the community you’re an admin for, then tap View membership requests.
- Select
to approve and
to deny the membership request.
To block, ban, report, or remove a member of your community:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Tap See members, then tap
next to the member.
- Tap the action you want to take and follow the on-screen instructions to confirm your action.
To unban a member of your community:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Select Banned members.
- Find the previously banned member and select Remove ban.
To delete a message:
- From your community, find and long-press on the message in the chat.
- Select Delete, then select Delete again to confirm.
To add an admin:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Tap See members, then tap
- Tap Add as admin.
Note: Additional admins will not receive a notification or alert that they’re an admin of your community, so be sure to confirm this with them.
Manage community settings
To edit the app your community plays:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Tap Edit, then tap the app you currently have selected.
- Select a new app and tap Save.
Note: If “What we play” is set to a specific world, you will not be able to assign a meetup spot.
To edit your community meetup spot:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Tap Change meetup spot, then select a new world.
To edit community settings:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Select Edit, then select Community.
- From here, you can update your name, image, description, and the game your community plays.
To change member approval settings:
- From your community, tap the community name at the top.
- Select Edit, then select Member settings.
- Turn the toggle on or off to require admin approval to join your community.
- Select Save changes.
- Select Auto approve members.
Learn more about joining a community.