Posted on 23 November, 2009 By Kim Woodbridge 73 Comments

Updated: How to Unhide a Facebook Application or Page

Hidden (by Rob Ireton)

Last summer I wrote an article about how to add a Facebook application to your news stream that you had previously removed or “hidden”.

Well, since the last Facebook design change that method has become obsolete, as someone pointed out in the comments.

So, here is the new way to unhide a hidden application or page.

 

You can still use the Edit Options link at the bottom of the Home or News Stream page to add friends that you have hidden. (But I’m sure you’ve never done that ;-) But this no longer works for Pages and Applications.

After the commentator told me it didn’t work anymore, it took some time for me to figure out how to do it – being as Facebook is SO intuitive.

  1. Go to Home or News Stream page
  2. Switch to News Feed if you are using the Live Feed. (Does anyone not use the live feed?)
  3. Go to Hide something. Remember you have to hover on the right side of an item so the hidden “Hide” button appears. It doesn’t matter who or what you select to hide because you will immediately be able to add it back.
  4. The area will be yellow and there will be an Undo button and and Edit Options link. Click on the Edit Options link.
  5. You will get a box with three areas of hidden information: Friends, Pages and Applications. Make sure you unhide whatever it was you hid in order to get this box.
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  6. And remember this won’t work if you are using the Live News Feed. Switch to the regular or boring News Stream.
  7. Click on “Add to News Feed” for each item you want to see again and click the Close button.

Sometimes using Facebook is like a really hard treasure hunt that has a very disappointing prize.

photo credit: Rob Ireton


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    73 Responses to “Updated: How to Unhide a Facebook Application or Page”


    • Useful, as usual. Thanks. :)
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    • omqqq . thnxx soo muchh . BIGGG HELPP =]


    • I will have to come back to this good post when on my own computer – I need to learn more about facebook and apps. My friend was showing me how to add and she added the Democratic fund raising group to my feed. Although I read their newsletter, I do not want that or the Republican one on my facebook page….now I do not know how to delete it…but I am not home and working on a public computer for just a little while.

      I also wanted to let you know the UNICEF book is up on site as of today…famous for computer assistance and now for Cheddar and Broccoli Loaf…Such great talent..


      • Hi Patricia – If you go to Applications > Edit Applications at the bottom of the Facebook page you can remove applications completely rather than just hide them. Facebook can be a pain to navigate.

        I saw your post and was at your site but haven’t gotten a chance to take a look at it yet. Thanks!


    • Should come in very handy soon (I deleted my account there too) ;)
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    • Thanks! You are so correct in your statement about the oh-so-intuitive Facebook logic!


    • THANK YOU! I have been trying to figure this out forever


    • Where am I going wrong? I see nothing under Number 4 in your instructions and when I hover over the Hide button I see no yellow area with an Edit Options button!


      • Hi Tooki – I just fixed the list or instructions – it wasn’t displaying properly.
        But that part might not be clear – you have to hover in that area so the Hide button appears but in this instance you have to click on it to proceed.


        • Thanks for the prompt reply! I did get that I had to click the Hide button, but when I do I only see a grey box with a Hide (whatever) button and a Cancel button, rather than Edit Options. I am definitely on News Feed not Live Feed. Is there something else in my Settings somewhere, maybe?


          • Hi Tookie – Oh goodness. Facebook has changed it again! My posts can’t keep up with them. On the News Stream page (not Live) scroll down to the bottom. On the right will be a link that says Edit Options – you should be able to locate it there – there are two sections – Friends and Applications.


            • Hooray! Thank you thank you thank you! You are so right about Facebook being very unintuitive! (Damn it, I’m a computer tutor!! LOL!)


    • Hi Tookie – Not only is it unintuitive but they keep moving the settings around.


    • Thank you!!! This is such a FIND, you are the best!


    • I couldn’t crack this! I could not switch to News Feed mode from Live Feed mode. I guess this thing doesn’t work in Live mode. I could manage to reach till the Edit Options link, but could not see the different categories as shown in the picture and hence couldn’t find Cafe World :(
      Please help!


      • Hi Deepak – Facebook has once again moved the settings. You do need to be in the regular News feed – it doesn’t work with the Live feed. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and on the right will be a link that says Edit Options. Click on that and you should be able to add the application back to your news stream.


        • Quicker way is to switch to Status Updates. When you go to Edit Settings from there, that screen above pops up without having to delete something first. I used your way today — thanks much! Then someone told me about this. Wanted to return the favor.


          • Hi Brenda – Thanks! That is much faster :-)


            • When I try either of those methods, unhiding a friend is the only option available to me. I can’t come up with a list of hidden applications no matter what I do. Any advice? I’m wondering if I have some setting ticked incorrectly somwhere.


    • thank u very much! culdnt crack dis on my own!!!.. super thank u!! v(^_^)v


    • AWESOMEEE Ive been trying 2 figure this out for ever! THANKS!!!


    • Hi Gretchen – This might be a stupid question but have you actually hidden any applications?


      • Lol…yes, I have! I’ve hidden Mafia Wars from myself and I so regret it now. Any help would be so appreciative!


        • Hi Gretchen,

          Ok. I know you’ve done this but try again :-)

          1. Switch to News Feed – make sure it isn’t the Live Feed.
          2. Scroll to bottom of the page and there is a link on the right that says Edit Options.
          3. The window that opens should have at least two tabs – Friends and Applications. By default it will be on the list of hidden friends. Click on the application button and you should see Mafia Wars on the list. If it still isn’t working, you may need to try a different web browser or contact support.


    • Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I couldn’t figure out how to do this on my own & the instructions in Facebook are wrong.


    • Thank you so much for your instructions to unhide an application on facebook. I searched everywhere and tried every obvious thing I could come up with to no avail.


    • THANK YOU!!!!

      I spent ages trying to work it out and couldn’t, thank you very much!!


    • Thank you for sharing. It helped.


    • Having problems with Farmsville Bonus checker and it seems alot more people are to. They can’t get it to load today 01/31/2010 when it was loading just fine last night. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
      Thnk you for your time
      Joe


      • Hi Joe – I wrote this article that is general information about how to unhide different applications on Facebook. I don’t know that much about Farmville and can’t provide support for it in that way.

        My guess, however, is that Farmville or Facebook was having issues yesterday that was causing this problem.

        Good luck.


    • Hi, thank for your info but i dont think this still applicable now..I tried but I didn’t see any selection for friend, pages and application..

      Other than that I want to ask if you know how to edit the list on the left side under the news feed…I need to filter some post based on the application..but I can find how to manage it..thank you so much…


      • Hi Agatha – Try the edit options link at the bottom right of the page – that’s how it used to work and it’s probably gone back to that again.

        Click on Friends at the top of the page – that will give you a list of friends and pages that you are a fan of – here you can create your lists. Once you have the lists you can filter on the News Stream / Home page.


    • i did it. it was just there all along.
      click:
      home(top right corner) then
      friends(left top) then
      status updates(under “friends” ) then
      edit options(bottom right) then
      voila! add to news feed.
      its funny. i thought i would never see it. i searched for an hour.


      • Hi Regina – Well, that seems really hidden ;-) I’m glad you found it.


      • i tried doing what you said but when i click the edit options button all it says is “The following streams are hidden from your News Feed. Click “Add to News Feed” to see their posts again.” and it doesn’t show a add to new feed button


        • Erica – Does it list the items that are hidden? Do you actually have
          anything hidden? I would try logging out of Facebook, clearing the browser cache, and restarting the browser. If the problem persists, you will need to contact Facebook support.


      • Thank you for your help. The other method wasn’t working. I could get to edit options but it would only allow me to edit the people, not applications. Your way worked!


    • Hi Kim,

      Thank you so much for helping the community here! I, too, am frustrated with not being able to unhide hidden apps on FaceBook. It sounds like I probably have the same issue(s) as Erica. When I click on “Edit Options” in the bottom right hand corner, it appears to only work for hiding/unhiding friends and changing the maximum number of friends that will be viewed in my newsfeed. It sounds like maybe the UI of Facebook has changed once again.

      As you suggested to Erica, I cleared my brower’s cache and restarted. To no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

      Thanks,
      Ellen


    • I just figured it out. If you go to “Status Updates” under Friends, what you mentioned shows up when you click on the “Edit Options” button at the bottom of the screen.


      • Hi Ellen – I’m glad you found it! And I wish they would stop moving it – and it really isn’t in an intuitive location. Guess it’s time for me to update some articles again ;-)

        Can you imagine trying to write a book about Facebook? It would have to be done in pencil.


    • Thanks so much for this great article…I finally got back the application I hid accidentally.

      just one comment, the news feed links are now labeled ‘top news’ and ‘most recent’ instead of ‘news feed’ and ‘live feed’


    • Thank you so much. I just wish they would stop changing things around.
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    • help, please?
      all of a sudden, none of my friends’ game posts are showing in top news or recent. I checked with the suggestions above, but the only things that show as hidden are the ones I meant to hide. when the page refreshes, their posts of the last few minutes show for a second, then it goes back to older posts and none for games. i even got screenshots of what flashes there, but i don’t know how to make it stay! If it weren’t for Game Scrubber I’d miss everything, but i still can’t get the gifts that are time sensitive.

      by reading the developers’ blogs, there is no doubt at all that the changes are all for the apps and none for users. they keep rearranging things to make ads more prominent, make & access easier for ppl who pay them. I know it’s a business, but they aren’t hurting for money. They’ve even got their own ‘app bucks’ with the new credits, and they want apps to use them~ and then give fb 30%. They are more expensive for users, of course, at a dollar each instead of the five for a dollar the apps have been using.
      (Sorry~ got off track~ excuse my venting, please! But that is why they keep ’simplifying ‘the pages…

      thanks for any help!


      • Hi Cathy – I’m not sure what’s happening but you could try this.

        Go to Account in the top right > Application Settings
        Click on Edit Settings for the Application you want to see
        Click on Additional Permissions and see if the application has permission to post to your wall and/or News Stream.


    • Thank you thank you thank you!!!! I hide a particular application and it was driving me crazy trying to figure out how to unhide it. You are a live saver!!!


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