16 Comments »Facebook Page customization can be a tricky task sometimes, and one of the most annoying features of Pages is the “Boxes” tab. Last week I noticed a few pages that had removed the boxes tab however I hadn’t tried it out on my page yet. Thankfully Facebook got back in touch with me after I reached out to them and let me know how that it’s a really easy task to accomplish. Apparently I just hadn’t clicked on the right things!
Why Remove The Boxes Tab?
Before explaining how to remove the Facebook boxes tab in under 30 seconds, let me first show what the “Boxes” tab is if you didn’t already know. The boxes tab is how most applications originally interacted with Facebook profiles. Facebook profiles got overwhelmed with application boxes following the launch of the Facebook platform. The result was that Facebook redesigned profiles and relegated applications to the “Boxes” tab (as pictured below).
The only problem with this is that it’s not very attractive to have 10 applications on a single tab. Instead, it looks much better to have a landing tab and then some other tab for engaging users. Thus we want to remove the boxes tab!
How To Remove The Boxes Tab
Now that we’ve concluded that the boxes tab should be removed, there only thing you need to do is as follows:
- Go to your boxes tab on your Facebook Page (note: this is does not work for your Facebook profile)
- Next to each box, simply click on the pencil icon in the corner of your box and select “Remove Box”
- Repeat this process for every box
Once you’ve removed every box from your Facebook page “Boxes” tab, the boxes tab will completely disappear. That’s it! For some reason I couldn’t figure it out before but now you know!
I don’t have a Boxes Tab on my profile– same procedure works.
Box customisation is a very personal and sometimes tricky thing to manage depending on the applications used. Not all apps are equal when it comes to displaying content.
I found news, music and blogs are best suited for the Box tab, all else has been banished for all eternity on my profiles.
The only benefit to having the boxes tab is you can use an iframe. This is the only area that supports an iframe.
I use the ‘Boxes’ tab on our Facebook page.. any chance of renaming it to something more useful..?
Really E? Because I tried that on my personal profile and it didn’t work, the box tab is still there. But I notice a lot of my non-fb savvy friends do not have it on their profile….
Veronica, if you logout and then back in, it should be gone (provided you’ve removed all the individual boxes). Your non-savvy friends probably never set up anything to go to their “Boxes” tab, so never had one to begin with.
Yeah, I was pretty sure I had removed it ages ago. After reading your post today, I went back and saw that I had (inadvertently) added some boxes over the last few months. So I went ahead (following the same instructions here) — removed every application etc from that tab. Once I refreshed, the boxes tab disappeared!
I would guess your non-savvy friends probably never added applications to that tab which is why the tab wasn’t created, right?
This isn’t true. I have no boxes on my Boxes tab but it’s still there. I did this exact same thing awhile ago, and then one day my Boxes tab reappeared even though there’s nothing to display.
If it still doesn’t disappear, try going to Application Settings > Added to Profile - and remove the apps entirely.
But Jaime, it is true. I don’t have a Boxes Tab after removing (or moving) my apps. I think Lorraine’s advice is good– you probably still have those apps still installed on your profile which is why your tab is there.
i can finally remove boxes tab!!!
All the crap is gone in my boxes tab and I went under account settings and it isn’t going away. I log out and it’s still there. Oh well, it’s not that important to remove it.
I also can’t remove the boxes tab from the facebook page tired all solutions suggested and it is important in my opinion as it looks bad having empty tab. I’m wondering how can all other pages like McDonalds Page can do it!
Application Settings —> Show [in dropdown menu] Added to Profile —> This should bring up a list of apps for which tabs and/or boxes have been added. (An app may be set as having a box, even if no apps are visible on the Boxes tab.) You can delete the box setting from this point.
Yes is worked!
I didn’t even need to come on here to delete my boxes application. I honestly removed it completely a long time ago on my own! The problem is I would like it back. I can’t post anything on my profile permanently without it!!!! Does anyone know how to get this tab BACK????