How to See Who Viewed Your Facebook Story

Elsa Updated on Aug 29, 2025 Filed to: Parent Control

Nowadays, stories are pretty popular on social media, which lets you share your day-to-day moments with your loved ones in a casual way.

When you post a story on your Facebook, it becomes visible at the top of the Facebook News Feed of you, your friends, and your followers. Once someone checks your story, Facebook records the views and the viewers. So, how can you see your Facebook story viewer? Let's have a look!

Quick Steps: Open your Facebook story page > tap "Viewers" in the bottom left.

What Is a Facebook Story and How Does It Work?

Facebook Story is a feature that allows users to share photos, videos, boomerangs, music, and texts that disappear after 24 hours. Users can add filters, stickers, effects, and more to their Stories and choose who is able to view them.

Once posted, the story appears at the top of the Facebook app and website, providing easy access for friends and followers to view and interact with them. Unviewed stories have a blue ring circling the user's profile picture, while viewed stories do not.


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Can You See Who Views Your Facebook Stories?

Yes, you can. To check who has viewed your Facebook Story, open the story and tap the "Viewers" icon at the bottom-left corner. This will show you a list of everyone who has seen your story within the 24-hour period. Keep in mind that Facebook does not notify you if someone views it multiple times or takes a screenshot.

How to See Who Viewed Your Facebook Story

Now that you know the answer to "Does Facebook show who viewed your story," the next step is to see who viewed your Facebook story. Here's how you can see who viewed your Facebook story:

The following step can be applied whether you are using Facebook on Android, iOS, or computer.
  1. Step 1.Open the Facebook app or facebook.com.
  2. Step 2.Navigate to your story under the "Feed" page.
  3. Step 3.Tap "Viewers" in the bottom left to see who has viewed your story. If you are using Android or iPhone, you can also swipe up across your story to do so.
  4. see who viewed your Facebook story

What Does 'Others' Mean on Facebook Story

If you uploaded your story, have you ever seen "Others" on Facebook story viewers? If yes, what does it mean, and who does it include? This section will unveil.

Others viewers on Facebook

The "Others" viewers can be those who viewed your Facebook story but are not friends with your Facebook, such as your followers or random strangers. For instance, if you notice "Others 1," it means there is 1 person who viewed your story, and he or she is not in your friend list on Facebook.

So, can we understand "Others" as anyone other than your Facebook friends? Negative. During the test, we found if someone (friends included) chose to block you after viewing your story, Facebook also counted this as "Others" viewers.

💡 How to see Other viewers on Facebook story?

Unfortunately, you are not able to know who are the "Others" viewers on the Facebook story, especially when your story privacy setting is set to "Public." As mentioned above, if someone blocks you after checking your story, you will know this "Others" viewer when he unblocks you.

How to Manage Who Can View Your Facebook Story

Despite the story's entertainment, privacy is always the top priority of everyone. Thankfully, for privacy, Facebook lets you control who can see your stories at any time. The following are two ways you can change your privacy setting for your Facebook stories.

Option 1. From Your Story

  1. Step 1.Open the story you post on Facebook.
  2. Step 2.Tap the three dots in the upper right.
  3. Step 3.Select "Edit story privacy."
  4. Step 4.Then, change the audience selections of your Facebook story.
  5. control who can see Facebook story

Option 2. From Settings

  1. Step 1.On Facebook, tap the "hamburger" icon in the top-right.
  2. Step 2.Tap the "cog" icon to go to Settings.
  3. Step 3.Scroll down and click "Stories."
  4. Step 4.Select "Story Privacy," and you can change the story privacy to "Public," "Friends," or "Custom" to manage who can see your story.
  5. Facebook story privacy settings

Either way will change the privacy setting for the stories you post within 24 hours, as well as the stories you share in the future.

FAQs about Facebook Story

Why can't I see who viewed my Facebook story?
If you cannot see who viewed your Facebook story, it is possible that no one has viewed your story yet or you didn't apply the correct audience selection for the story.
Does Facebook notify when you screenshot a story?
No. Facebook only records if you view someone's stories but does not notify others if you screenshot their stories.
How to see old stories on Facebook?
To see old stories on Facebook, you have to enable "Story archive" before stories disappear. Here's how:
  1. Step 1.Go to Facebook Settings after tapping the three lines in the top-right.
  2. Step 2.Tap on "Stories" under "Audience and visibility."
  3. Step 3.Press "Story archive" and turn on "Save to archive."
  4. Step 4.After that, the old stories will be saved here.
  5. Facebook story archive

How to view Facebook stories anonymously?
To see Facebook stories without being viewed, you can enable the Airplane mode on your phone, half-swipe the story section, block the user after viewing, or install an extension.

Wrapping Up

Be it adults, children, or older people, the story feature of Facebook has become a popular and easy way to post about day-to-day life events. If you need to see who has viewed your story, applying the above steps can be helpful.

While this feature is a fun activity, it also comes with issues. Random people can easily trap young children using Facebook by watching their stories. In this situation, parents can safeguard their child's online activities using AirDroid Parental Control.

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Elsa has worked on a number of iOS & Android solutions, she can always find her way around almost any application. She is an accomplished, skilled and versatile writer with more than 7 years of technical article writing experience.
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