How to Mass Delete Facebook Tags Using Redact.dev

How to Mass Delete Facebook Tags Using Redact.dev

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Categories: Business, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Facebook, Promotion, Redact Features, Social Media, Social Media Management, Tutorials, Uncategorized

Old Facebook tags can be more than just embarrassing – they can be a real risk to your privacy, reputation, and peace of mind. Whether you’ve been tagged in photos you’d rather forget, or you want to remove your name from posts and comments scattered across Facebook, Redact.dev makes the process simple.

Instead of spending hours manually untagging yourself, use Redact.dev to delete all your Facebook tags in just a few clicks.

Why Delete Facebook Tags?

Over time, you’ve probably been tagged in hundreds (or thousands) of posts and photos. Here’s why it’s worth cleaning them up:

  • Privacy Protection: Tagged photos and posts can expose more than you intend to the public.
  • Reputation Management: Old tags can resurface at the worst time, especially if you’re job hunting or rebranding.
  • Reduce Data Exploitation: Meta (Facebook’s parent company) uses your engagement history, including tags, to fuel its advertising engine and train AI models.
  • Peace of Mind: Get rid of those old moments that no longer represent who you are today.
  • You don’t want your data used for AI training. Your like behaviors may be used to train Meta’s AI models, which they tend to do with reckless disregard for ethics and dodgy content moderation policies.

How Redact.dev Makes Deleting Facebook Tags Easy

Manually removing Facebook tags takes forever – and even then, you might miss something. With Redact.dev, you don’t have to worry.

Redact.dev offers powerful filtering tools to delete all your Facebook post tags and photo tags automatically. No endless scrolling, no guesswork.

What You Can Delete with Redact.dev:

  • Post and comment tags
  • Photo tags

Here’s How to Get Started:

Download Redact.dev

Visit Redact.dev and download the free app for your computer.

Go to redact.dev and click Download located in the top right corner

Select Facebook

Launch the app, log in to your Redact.dev account, and choose Facebook from the list of supported services.

Select Facebook

Choose What to Delete

  • To remove tags from posts and comments, select “Delete Posts & Comments”.
  • To remove tags from photos, select “Delete Photo Tags”.
  • Or both!
Choose to delete post and comment tags or phgoto tags

Preview and Start Deleting
Preview the results to make sure you’re only deleting what you want. Then hit “Start Deleting” and let Redact.dev do the heavy lifting.

Choose to preview or delete

It’s that easy!

If you’re using the free version of Redact, you can bulk delete tags from up to the last 30 days! With the Redact Premium version, you can delete every tag!

If you want to learn more about the Redact.dev deletion tools, check out our Premium options here.

Delete All Facebook Tags FAQ

Facebook lets you review and remove tags, but there is no single remove all switch for your full history. You will need to process batches or use a helper workflow for large archives.
Removing a tag detaches your profile from that item but keeps the content online for others who can see it. Deleting a post removes it from the owner’s timeline if you own it. You cannot delete content owned by other people or Pages.
You can enable timeline review and tagging review so you approve tags before they appear. You can also adjust who can tag you and who can see posts you are tagged in.
Open Redact and choose Facebook. Select Posts and Activity, filter for items where you are tagged such as photos, posts, and comments, run a Preview, then execute Untag actions in batches or on a schedule.
Filter by date range, keywords, tagged people, locations, media type, link presence, and reactions. Combine Before, After, Between, or All Time with whitelists for friends or keywords to keep.
Yes. Save your filters and enable Disappearing Mode to run daily, weekly, or monthly. Redact repeats your rules and removes new matches automatically.
No. Untagging only disconnects your profile. The original post remains with the owner and may still be visible to their audience based on their settings.
Mentions without a formal tag do not link your profile the same way. You can still hide the post from your timeline or contact the owner to remove it. Redact can target comment text by keyword to help you review.
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.
No. Removing tags does not change friends, followers, or likes. Those are separate items managed in your account settings.
Redact batches actions and spaces requests to respect limits. For years of activity, run smaller date slices or schedule several passes for stability and full coverage.
Yes. Download an archive so you keep a private record of your past activity and media. Store it offline or in encrypted storage if you may need it later.
Yes. Use the report tools on Facebook and adjust privacy settings to limit who can tag you. Document repeated incidents and consider blocking accounts that violate your preferences.
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.
You can download Redact for free and start with recent activity. Redact uses passwordless sign in with secure email codes. You can disconnect at any time and upgrade later for full history and schedules.