Control Facebook from your keyboard with these handy shortcuts.
If you don’t use its mobile app exclusively and still check Facebook from your computer from time to time, then you might improve your Facebook experience with a few keyboard shortcuts.
Access keys
With these keyboard shortcuts, you can jump to the various areas of Facebook by pressing a key or two plus a number, which Facebook calls an access key. The shortcut combinations vary a bit from browser to browser but let you navigate Facebook a bit more quickly.
Windows:
Chrome and Edge: Alt + #
Firefox: Alt + Shift + #
Mac:
Chrome, Firefox and Safari: Control + Option + #
- 1 — News Feed
- 2 — Your Timeline
- 3 — Friends
- 4 — Inbox
- 5 — Notifications
- 6 — Settings
- 7 — Activity Log
- 8 — About
- 9 — Terms
- 0 — Help
Of this list, you’ll likely use the first two most frequently along with #4 and #5 to check your Facebook messages and notifications, respectively. On Chrome on a Mac, for example, you would hit Control-Option-1 to head to the top of your News Feed, and Control-Option-2 to go to your timeline. Control-Option+1 also works as a quick way to refresh yours News Feed.
In testing with Microsoft’s Edge browser on a Windows 10 PC, I found that only the Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-9 and Alt-0 shortcuts worked. And nothing from the list below worked on Edge.
Navigating the News Feed
In addition to the above shortcuts, there are a number of keys you can use when taking a spin through the News Feed.
- J — move to next story in feed
- K — move to previous story in feed
- L — like or unlike the selected story
- C — comment on selected story
- S — share selected story
- O — open image or link of selected story
- Esc — close image and return to News Feed
- P — post a new status
- / — search
- Q — search chat contacts
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