Facebook, ever mindful of its users' needs, decided that privacy settings needed some shuffle to make them clearer and easier to find. They have taken the privacy settings settings and scattered them among other categories.To make it easier to find, we have redesigned the entire settings menu for mobile devices. Facebook announced the changes in a blog post. Instead of setting up 20 screens with different settings, they are now available from one place.Sorry, that's 2018 when they centralized privacy settings to make it easier to find. The one that you see today is about centralizing them in a variety of places.Settings can now be grouped into six categories that each contain several related settings: Account and Preferences. Audience and Visibility. Permissions. Your Information. Community Standards and Legal Policies. We have unbundled the Privacy Settings category and moved all settings into other categories.Which of these categories do privacy settings fall under? Facebook changed their names to better match people's mental models. Use your mental model.If you answered yes to all, congratulations! If you wish to change your privacy settings, you can simply visit each of these subcategories and categories individually. Each one might contain a key toggle, making it like a treasure hunt.We laugh, but Facebook also made the Privacy Checkup option more prominent in this update. This guided review could allow the company to use dark patterns to lure users away from more desirable privacy options. However, it does go through most of the important settings and allows people to change them.Facebook wrote that they are confident that this new settings page will make people's lives easier by making it easier to access their settings, find what was there, and make the necessary changes. We will all know the outcome of this redesign later today for iOS, Android and mobile web.
