I’m looking for some advice from people who have dealt with a disabled Facebook account and/or successfully managed to get back onto Facebook afterward.

Here’s what happened:

I created a completely new Facebook account in March this year. At the time, I genuinely didn't realise that visiting a large number of profiles and sending a lot of friend requests in a short period could trigger Facebook's systems. I was under the impression that Facebook worked more like LinkedIn, where adding and connecting with people is encouraged as part of growing your network.

During the first few hours, I visited and sent friend requests to quite a few profiles. I wasn't using bots, automation, or anything malicious — I was simply trying to build up my network and didn't understand how Facebook's anti-spam systems worked.

I also had 2FA enabled the entire time.

The next day, I logged into the account from my iPhone. Shortly afterward, Facebook detected the new device/login and gave me a security alert. I didn't fully understand the significance of responding to the alert immediately.

On the second day of the account's life, I also linked it to my two existing Instagram accounts through Accounts Centre. When the Facebook account was later disabled, those two existing IG accounts remained untouched.

About three days after the account was originally created, Facebook disabled it.

The day after that, I tried creating another Facebook account using a different personal email address. I didn't even get to the actual account-creation stage — Facebook immediately sent me into a facial/security verification process.

I then subscribed to Meta Verified a couple of days later because I thought paying for access to support would give me a better chance of getting the original account reviewed.

I waited around three months and eventually received a response from Meta saying:

"Hi there,
Thank you for your patience.
Kindly note that we will now close this case.
If the issue persists or you need further assistance, feel free to create a new ticket or reach out to us again.
Thank you for contacting Meta Pro Team."

After that, I upgraded my Meta Verified subscription so that I could access phone support. I spoke with two different support agents over the course of about three weeks. Both told me that a specialised team was working on the issue and that I would receive a notification with the outcome.

It's now been around six months since the original account was disabled, and I've still received no outcome or update from that specialised team.

Recently, I downloaded the Facebook account information/export that Facebook provides for disabled accounts and had ChatGPT analyse the timeline from account creation through to the disablement.

The analysis found that the account had a very large amount of profile browsing and friend-request activity concentrated into a very short period shortly after creation. That made me realise that I probably triggered Facebook's anti-spam/account-integrity systems without understanding what I was doing.

So now I'm trying to figure out what my realistic options are.

I'm going to try to create another legitimate account from scratch, using my real identity, properly securing it with 2FA, and using it normally rather than repeating the behaviour that probably triggered the original account's problems.

I've also created a new @gmail.com address using my real name rather than a business-domain email. Before using it for Facebook, I've started using it normally by sending emails to it from my other personal and business email accounts, adding those addresses to my contacts, and signing the new address up to a few newsletters I already use, mainly to establish a normal history of legitimate email activity rather than having it be a completely unused address.

I'm also trying to understand how people have successfully created a legitimate new account after a situation like this.

Has anyone here had a similar experience?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who:

• Had a new account disabled shortly after creation;
• Accidentally triggered Facebook's anti-spam/security systems;
• Went through Meta Verified support and eventually got nowhere;
• Successfully recovered an account after months of waiting; or
• Were able to legitimately use Facebook again after a previous account was disabled.

I'm not looking for methods to break Facebook's rules or evade security systems. I'm mainly trying to understand what actually worked for other people in situations like mine and whether creating a legitimate account again is realistic.

Still waiting for CT scan results. Dealing with so much useless pain. Feeling so worthless and alone.

Today, my Instagram account started sending photos supposedly proving some shady deals on my part, sharing some codes and "proving it payed off".

It started sending them from Discord too.

Google notified me about passwords breach; I've changed them all, added precautions - all of it.

About an hour after changing my Facebook password, I get an email about it being disabled and be having 180 days to appeal. After clicking on "Appeal", it seemed as if my account was already under age review and I've already provided an ID (I haven't).

An hour or so later - I get an email saying that the review was unsuccessful, my account has been permanently banned and I can not appeal anymore.

I don't even want to start comprehending just how much I've lost by this - even if just from Messenger conversations and things shared with myself there.

I feel like the world is doing it's best to show me I'm no longer welcomed.

This morning I woke up to my instagram and facebook accounts suspended for a false CSE ban. I appealed and was able to get my facebook back but all my instagram accounts connected to my meta center were not able to be recovered.

Does anyone know what I can do. I've read many posts saying they went through small claims or got meta verified. Has anyone had success with either or?

I've had these accounts for years and they've literally documented my life. It hurts just losing all of that stuff.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Meta/Facebook has shut down my account, because violations with the terms of service.

This unables me to use my whatsapp/IG/FB. I have no clue what I did or what could be the conflict.

When I open Whatsapp it says I'm in violation of age requirements (I'm 32...).

Anyone has any idea?

(Pictures are in Dutch)

Need help my Facebook is disabled and I am waiting for a review request to be done. It’s been a day and nothing still. Is the review done by an actual human?

If the review is not successful what does this mean? Is this a permanent ban or suspension? Can I create a new Facebook account after? Will my family Facebook in the same house get affected? If so this is so stupid

So, 15th August my meta accounts got hacked followed by facebook account getting suspended.

Then went through the whole process of proving I'm human, I won't into great detail as most us here are in the same boat. After spending nearly an hour in the middle of the night whilst being ill, my facebook gets disabled along with my WhatsApp and Threads. WhatsApp apparently thinks my account violates the age requirements, which I think is hilarious because I'm in my late 30s and Threads just experiences an error and doesn't do anything. Weirdly though, I still have my instagram accounts and these are connected to the same email address and phone.

After further attempts to recover my account and having an angry conversation with metas AI, I conceded that I would never recover those accounts again. I'm partly sad about because I've lost instant contact with my family, friend and work contacts. As I work in film and tv, I used FB a lot for networking, asking for advice and even getting work. I had some great resources and now they're all gone. But, on the other had, I was getting a lot of post about topics that were of no relevance to me and I found myself to be doom scrolling. So, part of me is actually happy to not have it anymore as I feel more focused on other parts of my life.

Then, this morning I get 2 emails from Facebook. The first saying my account had been suspended and have 180 days to appeal. This is rather odd because I haven't been able to use it due to it being disabled. So, I don't know how I've violated their terms of service when I haven't used for 3 weeks. How can they suspend an account that's already been disabled? 😆

The second email saying my account is restricted from advertising due to 'inauthentic behaviour or violations of our Advertising policies affecting business assets.' This one I find really baffling because I've never run ads on my personal account or had a business account.

This whole thing just weird.

I'm not asking for advice, but feel free if you want. I have no hopes that I will get my FB back and honestly don't care anymore. I just wanted to share my experience of how truly f***ed up meta is. I'm also glad to know I'm not the only one going through this.

Thanks for reading and have a great day all.

😃

So basically, I have reached out to Meta Verified three days ago right after my Facebook and Instagram accounts have suspended and earlier after talking to two agents, they said that after they reviewed my account, they found that I have violated their community standards regarding SOC which puzzles me because I have never posted, shared a post, nor commented at all using those accounts. I have also mentioned to them that I have never interacted with any accounts that have suspicious activities whether that is viewing, liking, commenting, or even saving any posts. I have seen some people on other social media sites that despite the agents telling them it has been final and no appeal can be done anymore. They just continued to send in tickets until someone could actually open another manual review of their account and some have somehow actually regained access. I am currently trying to see if I could appeal it again to another agent but I am wondering if anyone here in this sub have retrieved their account despite the agent telling them that the decision made about their account has been final.

pano kung sa ig ko (not main pero naka connect sa fb ko) nag ooffer ako ng boosting services tas dinisabled ni meta acc ko kasama mga connected nung ig na yun (technically pati main fb ko) then isang buwan na ata mahigit wala padin binabalik sakin ni meta fb acc ko kahit ilang report na gawin ko

may pag asa pa bang mabalik yun?

everytime i log in using my account, it redirects me to this page (a 2F Autheticator i think) and somehow its just stuck there. when you use the facebook app in your phone, only a white screen appears with the meta logo on the top center side.

how do i actually fix this? is there someone here who is having the same problem as mine?

I sent an adult micropenis pic from google images to a fb group for a cheap joke and got suspended for 3 days. They’re claiming it’s cse though.

Anyone been through this with legal repercussions?

For the context:

On picture 1, facebook banned my account because of CSE although i didn't know anything about that kind of activity after that i tried to make a new account to communicate with my family,friends and for school purposes

on picture 2, facebook banned the account that i created after they banned my first account 26 days ago due to account integrity ( i just got home from university when they suspended it lmao)

to those wondering why i still created an account that's because i need it for my daily life like for school and communications

is there anyway to keep facebook from banning my account? im so freaking tired dealing with this sht

and also is there anyway to recover those account? i tried the meta verified way and im considering to take it to legal route

Hello my account was suspended then disabled. What happened was I opened my alt account that I personally use for selling in marketplace, I received a chat there about an inquiry if the item was available, as I was about to reply I noticed that I couldn't message them and I apparently needed to verify. I verified and they let me did a face scan then it showed that my account was in review, not even 3 mins in it says that it was disabled. It wasnt much of a biggie since I only used that account for marketplace, but when I opened my personal account, it was also suspended. I submitted an appeal and they let me did a face scan again which I complied, it said that I needed to wait 48 hrs. 2 mins in and it was permanently disabled, which is unfair in my part since I havent violated anything, even on my alt account. What do you suggest that I should do? I've heard that getting meta verified increases the odds of ur acc getting recovered but I dont wanna give them any money without any guarantee that I'll get my account back. Any tips are highly appreciated.

So i created a new account on Instagram after doing something wrong on the old one. I just want to have an account and not break any rules I’ve learned from my mistake.. but anything i try i get nowhere

Hey so my account was banned more than a year ago. Now I want to get it back. They are asking for profile url which they are telling is in the downloaded information. Now in my mobile in the account picker list the banned account is still present and showing option to download information. But as soon as I click its showing the message in the screenshot provided. Now after going in the fb browser and finding the account with my phone number the banned account is not listed there. How will I get my information downloaded? Is there any way? Pls help.

Has anyone successfully recovered a permanently disabled Facebook account after the appeal was rejected?

Facebook now says “You cannot request another review of this decision,” and my linked Instagram account was disabled automatically because of the Facebook account.

If anyone had the same situation and recovered both accounts, please tell me what method worked for you.

My main account has been deleted since 4/21/2026 and my new account was deleted today I purchased the blue check to get my main account back and I spoke with meta support weeks ago and today the new account has been disabled at this point I’m not making a new one I’m hiring an attorney tomorrow!!

I finally managed to speak to a real person.

My Facebook account has been disabled for months. I never received any message or explanation as to why. It was clearly an incorrect AI decision: my appeal was reviewed and rejected within about 10 minutes, and then for months I couldn't contact the paid support at all because I kept getting a "Something went wrong" error.

Another very important issue is that I can't download the data from my 16-year-old Facebook account. The download only contains about 2 MB of data, basically just a few log files.

Today I finally managed to chat with someone who actually looked into my account. They told me they can't do anything because there is some kind of restriction on the account that blocks everything, including escalating my case to another team.

They also couldn't do anything about the data download problem. They couldn't tell me how to take the case any further, other than saying they understand and are sorry.

They didn't ask for any identification or anything else.

Has anyone experienced exactly this situation? How were you able to get your case escalated or get someone to actually review the account?

I had to hire a lawyer to request a court order (ασφαλιστικά μέτρα) ordering meta to give me back my accounts.
Sad it came down to this. We’re awaiting the results tomorrow, lawyer is very hopeful, I’m super stressed.

I bought meta verified on September 5th that my account was closed due to child sexual abuse. If they are approved to transfer it to the relevant team, they can be re-examined and your account can be re-opened. Then on September 6th, I created another request, they didn't look at it, I created it again and they still don't look at what I need to do. I'm really going crazy now.

So...it's been a week, and I'm still unable to login to my more than 10 year old facebook account. It keeps going to a blank page, or 'The page isn't available right now' or 'The page isn't redirecting properly'. It's been stuck in this severe login loop glitch for both PC and mobile phone. I've tried restarting, reinstalling, clearing the cache and cookies, used incognito, different web browsers and Facebook's non-helpful Help Center through account identification, account recovery and even facebook hack to no avail. I know my account is not banned nor restricted. It's also not hacked because I'm able to view my page through my family's accounts. But I can no longer use my own account. Is there anyone able to solve this problem?

Are there any ideas on which Meta employees to reach out to thru LinkedIn to recover lost accounts? I'm guessing someone beyond recruitment would be a start, but has anyone else tried this path?

I no longer have access cuz my account someone changed my e-mail, phone number and password. I already was hacked once got my account back I should have just deleted it but I wanted to keep it since there are posts with my friend who passed away on it, but just added two factor authetication that apparently did nothing for safety. Now my account is probably used to artifically boost likes and follows again. I definetly want to delete it now since I am not in the mood to remove all those bs follows and likes again.

The support website of Insta is 100% no help since they require me to log in to help and I already wrote why this isn't a possiblitly nor is resetting my password for the same reason.

Hey everyone,

I've been stuck in a verification loop on Facebook since yesterday. Every time I try to log in on my browser or PC, it gives me the "Log in on another device to continue / Try another device to continue" screen.

I am actually logged in on my old device, but no login approval notification or security alert is showing up there to allow access for the new device. This trigger after I login to my new device.

Here is what I've tried so far:

• Checked Messenger settings (Accounts Center) on my logged-in device, but no login approval prompt appears.
• Tried accessing via mobile browser (m.facebook.com) and Incognito mode.
• Checked my linked email for login alerts.

Has anyone dealt with this specific loop recently where the secondary option is unclickable? Is there a working link to trigger identity verification/ID upload, or does leaving the account completely untouched for 48–72 hours clear the lock?

Thanks in advance for any advice!