Facebook Privacy – How to Hide Public Posts on Profile

The visibility of the Photos tab used to be settable in Application Settings, but Facebook changed the Application Settings page to only show third party applications and not those provided by Facebook, such as Photos. As a result there is no longer any setting to change this.

Facebook lists this as a known issue:

My Photos tab and albums are set to "Everyone," but people who are not my friends are not able to see my photos.

Despite choosing the Everyone privacy setting, some people's photo albums are currently not visible to non-friends. We are aware of this issue and hope to resolve it soon.

In the meantime, note that you can still share albums through the "public link". If you would like to submit a report, please click here.

The settings are still there when you post.

In the case below I have a list called Locked and I allow everyone except those in that list.

You can always edit this by clicking on it.

From there the same way that you will reference a friend, is the same way you would reference a list. Just type the list name. Below I used it in the hide list, but you could do the same with "Make this visible to" , just select "Specific People"

So you could say the "These people" could have been a bit more descriptive and said "These people and lists"

For older posts there is a little lock icon that shows the privacy settings for that particular item.