How to Remove Tabs on a Facebook Business Page

A cluttered Facebook Page can send the wrong message, burying the exact information your visitors are looking for. Customizing the tabs - those navigation links like Home, About, Photos, and Reviews - is one of the fastest ways to clean up your page and guide people directly to what matters most. This guide will walk you through exactly how to remove and reorder your Facebook Page tabs to create a more streamlined experience for your audience.

Why You Should Tidy Up Your Facebook Page Tabs

Before getting into the how-to, it’s worth understanding why this small tweak makes such a big difference. Think of your Facebook Page tabs as the main menu on a website. If that menu is crowded with irrelevant options, visitors get confused and might leave without finding what they need. A well-organized set of tabs helps you achieve a few key things:

• Improve User Experience: A clean layout makes it easy for visitors to find your contact info, read reviews, see your services, or shop your products. A better experience means they’re more likely to stick around, engage, and convert.
• Highlight What Matters: Do you want to showcase your 5-star reviews? Run a successful Facebook Group? Sell products directly from a Shop? By removing unnecessary tabs and moving your most important ones to the top, you put a spotlight on your business goals.
• Remove Outdated Apps: Over the years, you might have connected third-party apps that added their own tabs - like an old contest app or a YouTube channel feed you no longer update. Removing these cleans up your page and gets rid of digital dead ends.
• Project Professionalism: A tidy, intentional page layout just looks more professional. It signals that you pay attention to the details and care about your brand's online presence.

Understanding Default vs. Custom Facebook Tabs

Facebook gives you two main types of tabs. Knowing the difference is important because it dictates what you can and can’t do.

Default Tabs: These are the standard tabs that come with most Facebook Page templates. They include:

• Home
• About
• Photos
• Videos
• Posts
• Community
• Events
• Reviews
• Groups
• Offers
• Services
• Shop

You cannot permanently delete most of these core tabs (like Home, About, or Posts). However, you can turn many of them off so they don’t appear in your main navigation. And for the ones you can't turn off, you can always reorder them to deprioritize them.

Custom Tabs: These are tabs added by third-party applications you’ve connected to your Page. Common examples include tabs for email newsletter sign-ups (e.g., Mailchimp), showcasing a YouTube channel, or running a special promotion. These tabs can almost always be removed entirely, usually by uninstalling the connected app.

How to Remove or Reorder Tabs on Your Facebook Page: A Step-by-Step Guide

Ready to clean house? Facebook's interface has changed over the years, toggling between the classic Page view and the Meta Business Suite. The steps below cover the most common and current method for managing tabs directly from your Page settings. You'll need to be an Admin or Editor of the page to make these changes.

Step 1: Go to Your Facebook Business Page

Navigate to the Facebook Business Page you want to edit. Make sure you are interacting as your Page, not your personal profile. You can typically switch between the two by clicking your profile picture in the top right corner and selecting "See all profiles."

Step 2: Access Your Page Settings

On your Page, look for the Manage button on the left sidebar. Click it. This will open up your Professional Dashboard. From there, scroll down the left-hand menu until you find Page access and other professional tools. Locate and click on Settings.

Alternatively, you can sometimes find a "Settings" option directly on the left-hand menu when viewing your Page. Facebook often tests different layouts, but the goal is to get to the main Settings area for your Page.

Step 3: Navigate to "Templates and Tabs"

Once you’re in your Page Settings, you'll see another menu on the left. Click on Templates and Tabs. This is the control center for your page's layout and navigation. Here, you'll see your current template (e.g., Services, Business, Shopping) and a list of your current tabs.

Step 4: Turn Off the Tabs You Don't Need

In the "Tabs" section, you’ll see a list of all your available tabs. Next to each one that can be hidden, there is a toggle switch.

To remove a tab from your page's navigation, simply click the blue toggle switch to turn it off. For example, if you don't run events, turn off the "Events" tab. If you're a service business without physical products, you can turn off the "Shop" tab.

Don’t worry - turning off a tab doesn't delete the content. For example, if you turn off the "Videos" tab, your videos still exist on your page, the navigation link just won't be visible in the main menu.

Which tabs can't be turned off?

You'll notice some tabs don't have a toggle switch. These are usually core to the Facebook experience and can't be removed, including:

• Home: Your page’s main landing feed.
• About: Where your business information lives.
• Posts: The feed of your page's updates.
• Photos & Videos: These are often linked and essential.
• Community: Required for user-generated content and mentions.

Even though you can't remove these, you can reorganize them to make them less prominent, which brings us to the next step.

Step 5: Reorder Your Tabs for Maximum Impact

Now that you've hidden the unnecessary tabs, it's time to arrange the remaining ones. You want the most important tabs at the top of the list.

To reorder, simply click and hold the six-dot icon (⋮,⋮,⋮,) to the left of the tab name. Drag the tab up or down the list into your desired position. Release the mouse button to drop it in place. The changes save automatically.

A good strategy for ordering tabs:

1. Top Priority: Place the tabs that directly support your business goals at the very top. For a restaurant, this might be "Reviews" or "Menu." For a consultant, it could be "Services." For an e-commerce brand, it's "Shop."
2. Secondary Information: Next, arrange tabs with useful but less critical information, like "About," "Photos," and "Videos."
3. Lowest Priority: Move the non-removable, less-important tabs like "Community" or "Groups" towards the bottom of the list.

How to Remove Tabs from Third-Party Applications

What if you have a rogue tab from an old app that isn't listed in the "Templates and Tabs" section? These are trickier because they are tied to your Business Integrations, not your page template.

Here’s how to hunt them down and remove them:

1. Click your profile picture in the top-right corner of Facebook and select Settings & Privacy, then click Settings.
2. From the left-hand menu, scroll down and find Business Integrations. Click it.
3. You'll see a list of all the apps and services connected to your Facebook account. Find the application that created the tab you want to remove.
4. Click the Remove button next to the suspicious or outdated app. Facebook will ask you to confirm. Be aware that removing the integration might also delete past posts made by that app, so read the confirmation prompt carefully.

Once you remove the integration, the custom tab associated with it should vanish from your Facebook Page. You may need to refresh your page to see the change.

Best Practices for a Streamlined Facebook Page

Managing your tabs isn't just a technical task, it's a strategic one. Here are a few final thoughts to guide your decisions:

• Think Like Your Audience: What's the very first thing a new visitor wants to know? Make that information incredibly easy to find. Prioritize their needs above all else.
• Less is More: Don't feel obligated to keep a tab just because Facebook offers it. If the "Offers" or "Jobs" tabs aren't relevant to your business, hide them. A menu with four highly relevant tabs is far better than one with ten mediocre ones.
• Audit Your Tabs Quarterly: Business goals change. Make it a habit to review your Facebook Page tabs every few months to ensure they still align with your current marketing objectives. Remove what's no longer relevant and reorder based on new campaigns or focus areas.

By taking a few minutes to customize your tabs, you create a cleaner, more effective, and more professional-looking home for your brand on Facebook.

Final Thoughts

Effectively managing your Facebook Page tabs is a simple yet powerful way to enhance user experience and direct visitors to your most valuable content. By hiding what’s irrelevant and prioritizing what matters, you transform your Page from a cluttered space into a helpful, streamlined resource for your community.

Once our Facebook Page is tidy, the real work of creating and scheduling content begins. To keep everything organized and running smoothly across all of our social accounts, we built Postbase. This helps us see all our content on one visual calendar, schedule video-first posts to Reels and TikTok without a headache, and manage all our comments and DMs in a single inbox - keeping that clean, user-focused experience going long after a tab is tidy.