Meta says Facebook will permanently remove additional profiles after December 14, 2026. The change affects secondary profiles created alongside a user’s main Facebook profile. Meta says main profiles and Facebook Pages will not be affected.
The company announced the change in a November 12 update to its original multiple-profiles announcement. It said additional profiles added complexity and that it is moving back to one profile per person, according to Meta’s announcement.
Meta says it is notifying people with additional profiles by email and, where applicable, through in-app notifications and Feed notices. The announcement does not give an exact deletion time or time zone.
What counts as an additional Facebook profile?
An additional profile is a secondary profile created under the same Facebook account as your main profile. Facebook introduced the feature so people could keep separate profiles for interests, communities or connections.
Each profile could have its own feed and connections, and users could switch between them without signing out. A separately registered Facebook account is a different thing, and so is a Facebook Page.
What should you do before December 14?
If you use an additional profile, decide what you want to keep and act early. ManilaShaker reports that each additional profile must be exported separately.
According to that report, you switch to the profile, open Settings & privacy, then Settings, and choose Export your information under Your information and permissions. The export can be downloaded to your device or sent to an external service.
The same report says an additional profile that administers a Facebook group should hand that role to someone else before the deadline. Otherwise, it says the group will be paused until another admin is added.
You can also rebuild connections from your main profile. ManilaShaker says to review the additional profile’s friends, groups and followed Pages, then add friends, rejoin groups and follow Pages again.
Meta says a Help Center article covers the detailed steps. TechPipino could not open that page, so Facebook’s menus may differ from the steps above. Meta’s announcement does not say that posts, messages or connections will move to your main profile on their own.
Related Facebook coverage
This change is separate from Facebook’s feed controls. For those, see our guide to Facebook’s Your algorithm tool. For other Meta account changes, see our report on Instagram’s AI age estimation.
Why it matters
An additional profile may hold years of posts, conversations or community ties that live apart from a main profile. Exporting that data and checking group access early gives people time to act before Meta removes the feature.
Will Facebook delete my main profile?
Meta says no. The main profile, the first one created at sign-up, is not affected by this change.
Will my Facebook Page be deleted?
No. Meta says Facebook Pages are not affected by the removal of additional profiles.
Does an additional profile merge into my main profile automatically?
Meta’s announcement does not promise an automatic merge. ManilaShaker reports that people can rebuild connections from the main profile themselves, so check the Help Center for current options.
