How to Add a Tagged Post to Your Facebook Profile

Being tagged in a Facebook post can be a great thing - it might be a happy memory from a friend, a shout-out from a colleague, or a customer highlight from a brand you love. Placing that post on your own profile gives it your official stamp of approval and shares it with your network. This article will show you exactly how to control what appears on your timeline, how to add tagged posts you love, and how to use this feature to build your personal brand.

Why You Should Care About Managing Your Tagged Posts

Your Facebook profile is more than just a collection of vacation photos and life updates, for many, it's a digital resume and a core part of their personal brand. Every post you share, and every post you're tagged in that appears on your profile, contributes to the story you tell about yourself. Managing your tagged posts isn't about vanity - it's about curation and quality control.

Think about it from a professional standpoint:

• Networking: A potential employer, client, or business partner might look at your profile. A page filled with positive professional shout-outs, project features, and conference photos tells a very different story than one cluttered with unflattering Fright Night photos from ten years ago.
• Brand Consistency: If you're building a brand as an expert in a specific field, you want your profile to reflect that. Approving posts that highlight your expertise - like being tagged in a panel discussion or an industry article - reinforces your messaging.
• Social Proof: When others tag you in positive posts, it acts as social proof. It's like a public testimonial. Featuring these on your profile shows your network what others are saying about you, which is often more powerful than what you say about yourself.

By taking control of what appears on your profile, you move from being a passive participant in your digital identity to being its active curator. The key to this control lies in a powerful little Facebook feature: Timeline Review.

The First Step: Turning on Timeline Review

Before you can add a tagged post to your profile, you need to be able to review it first. This is where Timeline Review comes in. When this feature is enabled, any post where someone tags you is held in a private "pending" queue. It will not show up on your profile until you manually approve it. This simple setting gives you complete veto power over your own timeline.

If you don’t have this turned on currently, any post you’re tagged in (depending on the original poster’s audience settings) can appear on your profile automatically. Enabling this feature is the single most important step in curating your personal brand on Facebook. Here’s how to do it.

How to Enable Timeline Review on Desktop

1. Navigate to your Facebook homepage. Click on your profile picture in the top-right corner to open the dropdown menu.
2. Select Settings & Privacy, and then click on Settings.
3. In the left-hand menu, find and click on Profile and Tagging.
4. You'll see a section called Reviewing. Find the setting that says, "Review posts you're tagged in before the post appears on your profile?"
5. Click the Edit button on the far right. A small section will expand.
6. Click the toggle button to turn the feature On. That's it!

From now on, no tagged post will show up on your timeline without your explicit permission. You’ll have a chance to see it first and decide if it aligns with your brand.

How to Enable Timeline Review on the Mobile App (iOS and Android)

1. Open the Facebook app and tap the Menu icon (three horizontal lines) in the bottom-right corner (iOS) or top-right corner (Android).
2. Scroll down and tap Settings & Privacy to expand it, then tap on Settings.
3. Scroll down to the Audience and Visibility section and tap on Profile and Tagging.
4. Under the Reviewing section, tap on "Review posts you're tagged in before the post appears on your profile?"
5. Tap the toggle switch to turn it On.

How to Add a Tagged Post to Your Profile (After Turning on Review)

Now that you have Timeline Review active, the process of adding a post to your profile is straightforward. When someone tags you in a post or photo, you’ll get a notification.

Here’s the step-by-step workflow:

Step 1: Check Your Notifications

Facebook will let you know when there's something to review. The notification will typically say something like, "John Smith tagged you in a post. To add this to your profile, go to Timeline Review." Clicking this notification will take you directly to the review queue.

Alternatively, you can access your review queue at any time:

• On Desktop: Go to Settings > Profile and Tagging > Reviewing, and click "View" next to the timeline review setting. Or, you could simply navigate to your own profile, where you should see a "Review Items" button if there are pending tags.
• On Mobile: Go to your Profile > Tap the three dots (...) > Activity Log > Manage Your Tags. Any pending tags will be available to review here. It can also appear under Account Settings as the "Timeline Review" option.

Step 2: Review the Post

Once you’re in the review queue, you’ll see the full post just as it appears to others. This is your chance to evaluate it. Ask yourself a few questions:

• Does this photo or post represent me well?
• Is the caption positive and professional?
• Does this add value to my personal brand or public story?
• Is it content I'd be happy for a potential employer, client, or family member to see?

Step 3: Add to Profile or Hide

Beneath the pending post, you’ll see two main options:

• Add to Profile: Clicking this makes the post visible on your personal timeline. Anyone visiting your profile (with permissions granted by the original poster's audience settings) will now see it. Success! You have successfully added a tagged post.
• Hide: This dismisses the tag notification. The post will not appear on your timeline. Importantly, the post still exists on Facebook, and you are still tagged in it - it just won't be displayed on your curated profile page. It might still appear in the feeds of mutual friends, for example. If you want the tag fully removed, you'll need to go to the post itself and select "Remove Tag."

That's the core process. By enabling that front-end review process, you put a filter between the world and your public-facing feed, ensuring only the best content makes it through.

Managing Existing Posts Already on Your Profile

What if you just turned on Timeline Review, and you realize your timeline is already cluttered with tagged posts from a decade ago that don't reflect who you are today? You can easily clean those up retroactively.

To hide a single tagged post already on your timeline:

1. Go to your Facebook profile and scroll to the post you want to remove.
2. Click the three dots (...) in the top-right corner of that post's container.
3. A dropdown menu will appear. Select Hide from profile.

The post will instantly disappear from your timeline view, but just like hiding a pending post, you are still tagged. It's a quick and effective way to tidy up your digital footprint without creating any social awkwardness by asking people to untag you.

A Pro-Tip for Branding: Pinning and Featuring Posts

Adding a great tagged post to your profile is a good reactive strategy. But for truly important praise or a high-value mention, you might want to give it more prominence than just letting it float down your timeline.

Pin a Post to the Top of Your Profile

Once you've added a tagged post to your profile, you can "pin" it. A pinned post stays put at the very top of your timeline, acting as the first thing visitors see. This is incredibly useful for showcasing a recent accomplishment, a positive testimonial, or an article you were featured in.

To pin a post:

1. Once the post is on your timeline, click the three dots (...) on the post itself.
2. Select Pin post.

It will now be anchored at the top of your page until you unpin it.

Use the "Featured" Section

Facebook also offers a "Featured" section right below your introductory information. While this is often used for photos, you can get creative and share a screenshot of a post you were tagged in. This offers a more permanent, curated showcase.

This approach gives you a place to highlight career milestones or powerful testimonials that reflect your brand without getting lost in the chronological flow of the regular feed. It's a strategic move to ensure the best social proof about you is front and center.

Final Thoughts

Taking control of your Facebook tags is a simple but powerful act of digital curation. By enabling Timeline Review, you create a checkpoint to filter what represents you online, ensuring your profile works for you, not against you, in building your personal or professional brand.

At Postbase, we work to give creators and brands that same sense of proactive control, not just on one profile but across all their social media accounts. Managing your image involves more than just approving tags, it’s about having a clean, visual plan for all your content. We built our platform to bring that kind of clarity to your entire social strategy, from scheduling Reels and TikToks in a simple calendar to organizing all your comments and DMs in a single inbox. It’s what you need to go from reacting to the social landscape to actively shaping it.