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Change your privacy settings

Updated

Your privacy settings give you full control over who can view your photos and videos.

These settings work independently from Safety Levels, so you can customize visibility for each piece of content based on your preferences.

To locate content on your account based on the Privacy Setting, see How to locate non-public and/or moderate or restricted content on your Flickr account.

Flickr privacy settings

Non-public

Public
  • Private: Only you can see the content.
  • Friends: Contacts you’ve marked as Friends can see the content.*
  • Family: Contacts you’ve marked as Family can see the content.*
  • Friends and Family: Contacts you’ve marked as either friends or family can see the content.* 
Mark a contact as "friends" or "family"

*If you mark something as Friend, Family, or Friends&Family, the viewer must be signed into a Flickr account you've added as that contact type.
  • Public: Anyone, including visitors not signed in to Flickr, can see the content.

Note: Moderate/Restricted content is only visible to logged-in members who have adjusted their SafeSearch settings to see that level of content.

Things to keep in mind:

  • If you add a non-public photo to a Flickr group, then the photo will be visible to all group members.
  • If you tag a person in a non-public photo, then the photo will be visible to the person tagged.
  • If you create a guest pass to the photo, or an album that the photo is a part of, anyone with the link will be able to see the content.

Change the privacy settings for existing content

Web browser

Flickr app

iOS & Android

Single item

  1. Scroll to the Additional info section on the Photo Page.
  2. Select Viewing privacy and choose the desired setting.


Multiple items (bulk edit)

  1. Go to You | Organize.
  2. Drag and drop content into the batch area.
  3. Select Permissions | Who can see, comment, tag?
  4. Choose your settings and select Change Permissions.

Single item

  1. Tap on a photo or video to open it.
  2. Swipe up on the small bar at the bottom of the screen.
  3. Tap the Privacy level.
  4. Select the desired level.


Multiple items (bulk edit)

  1. From your profile, select Camera Roll.
  2. Tap Select | Choose one or more photos or videos.
  3. Select the Privacy icon.
  4. Choose the new setting | select Done.

Note: Changing to a stricter Privacy Setting (ex. from Public to Private), will permanently alter the original link and remove Faves from viewers who no longer have access. This cannot be undone.

Set the default privacy settings for new uploads

Web browser

  1. Go to your account settings.
  2. Select Privacy & Permissions.
  3. Under Defaults for new uploads, select Edit next to the appropriate setting.
  4. Choose your preferred default, then Save.

Flickr app

iOS

Android
  1. From your profile, tap the 3-dot menu.
  2. Tap Privacy and Safety.
  3. Tap your new default setting, then tap the X to exit.
  1. From your profile, tap the 3-dot menu.
  2. Tap Privacy and Safety.
  3. Tap Default post privacy.
  4. Choose your setting, then tap X.

Note: Anything uploaded with Auto-Uploadr is always Private. (Available to Pro members only.) 

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