Managing your Facebook history shouldn’t be overwhelming. Today, Redact.dev introduces Disappearing Mode for Facebook — allowing you to automatically delete posts, comments, likes, and more after a set time period, giving you full control over your Facebook presence.
Apps like Snapchat, Telegram, and Signal have popularized disappearing content. Now, with Redact, you can bring that same automatic cleanup feature to Facebook, making your timeline more focused, private, and up to date.
If you’re looking for a simple way to auto-delete old Facebook posts, remove outdated comments, or clean up Facebook likes, Disappearing Mode was built for you.
What is Disappearing Mode?
Disappearing Mode is a powerful feature that lets you automatically delete your Facebook content after a chosen period of time. You decide what types of content to target, how long to keep it, and when it should vanish — without needing to manually comb through your history.
With Disappearing Mode on Facebook, you can:
Auto-delete old posts after a set number of days, weeks, or months
Remove comments you’ve made on posts
Clean up old likes, tags, and other interactions
Protect your privacy by keeping your profile fresh and intentional
How to Set Up Disappearing Mode
To get started, download Redact.dev if you haven’t already. Create an account and sign in. A Premium subscription unlocks Disappearing Mode for full Facebook control, but a free trial also lets you test bulk deletions for the most recent content.
Once you’re signed in, go to the Disappearing Mode section from the left-hand menu.
Select Facebook as the platform you want to set up for auto-deletion.
Choose the types of Facebook content you want to delete automatically. You can select from:
Posts
Comments
Likes
Tags
After picking the content types, set your Preservation window. This determines how long new Facebook content will remain visible before Redact deletes it. You can choose to preserve content for any number of weeks, days, or even just hours, with a minimum of 24 hours.
Finally, adjust additional settings if needed. You can opt to protect all older content that existed before you set up Disappearing Mode, ensuring only new posts follow the new auto-delete rules.
If you’re using an hourly preservation window, you’ll be able to delete content more often – if this is selected, Redact will check for new content every hour.
Once configured, Redact will automatically monitor and delete your Facebook activity based on the rules you’ve set — with no further action needed from you.
Ready to start? Download Redact at redact.dev and set up auto-deletion for Facebook today and if you want to auto-delete posts from other social medias like Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, and Discord; then check out this tutorial.
Automatically Delete Old Facebook Posts FAQ
Facebook lets you review and take batch actions with built in tools, but it does not provide a one click remove all switch for your full history. Manual review or helper tools are needed for large archives.
Delete removes the post from your profile. Archive keeps it private for you. Hide removes it from the timeline view but the post can still exist with restricted visibility.
Open Redact and choose Facebook. Select Posts and Activity, set filters for dates, keywords, media, or locations, run a Preview, then enable Deletion or a schedule. Redact executes the steps you approve.
Filter by date ranges, keywords, tagged people, check ins, links, reactions, comments, and media types. Combine Before, After, Between, or All Time with keyword lists for precision.
Yes. Save your filters and schedule daily, weekly, or monthly runs. Redact repeats the same rules and removes new matches automatically on the cadence you choose.
Deleting a post removes its attached media from that post. Separate copies you uploaded elsewhere, or tags on other people’s posts, may remain and need separate action.
No. Redact runs on your device and uses the minimum access required to execute your actions. You can disconnect Facebook from Redact at any time.
Yes. Download an archive so you keep a private record. Store it offline or in encrypted storage in case you need to reference past posts later.
Ownership and permissions vary. Posts on your profile follow your actions. Group, event, and Page content can have different rules and may need separate passes or admin rights.
Redact batches actions and spaces requests to respect platform limits. For years of activity, run smaller date slices or schedule several passes for stable and complete results.
Yes. Use keyword lists, city or venue names, and tagged friend filters to focus on sensitive content. Review in Preview before removal.
Use Preview to list matches with no changes, Deletion to remove all matches, Select and Delete to approve items, and Scheduled Deletion to repeat your rules automatically.
No. Removing posts does not change connections or likes. Those are separate items. You can manage them with their own tools and filters if needed.
You can start for free with recent history on supported services. Upgrade to Premium to process all time data and unlock advanced filters and scheduling features.
Export data, start with a small Preview, use whitelists for people or keywords to keep, approve a short Select and Delete batch, then expand your filters after you confirm results.
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