Facebook Page Restricted? How to Check and Appeal

To see whether your Facebook Page is restricted, open the Page's Settings, then Page setup, then Page status. That screen lists the violations against the Page, and for many Community Standards violations it gives you a button to request a review.

#How to open Page status

These are the steps from Facebook's Help Centre for a computer:

1. Log in to Facebook, then click your profile photo in the top right.
2. Click See all profiles, then select the Page you want to switch into.
3. Click your Page profile picture in the top right.
4. Click Settings & privacy, then click Settings.
5. In the left menu, click Page setup, then click Page status.

Facebook says "anyone who has Facebook access to your Page can visit Page Status". Menu names on Facebook change often. If yours differ, look for Page status inside the Page's settings rather than your personal profile's.

#What Page status shows

According to Facebook, Page status covers:

• Recent Community Standards violations
• Content rated by independent fact checkers
• Intellectual property rights violations
• Content identified as clickbait
• Violations for sharing too much content from other sources
• Events take downs
• Content that isn't eligible for suggestions

It also shows "the status of your Page along with details around how some violations may affect your distribution or risk of being unpublished", and a summary box of which violation types are affecting the Page. Violations caused by other people who manage the Page appear too, along with who posted the content.

One important caveat from Facebook itself: Page status "doesn't include all areas" of the Community Standards and Page policies, and "there may still be violations from your Page that Page Status doesn't reflect yet, such as violations of our Page Policies." A clean Page status does not guarantee normal reach.

#Check Support home for recommendation penalties

Reach on Reels mostly comes from people who do not follow you, so losing recommendation eligibility can feel like a ban even when nothing is removed. Facebook's July 2025 post on unoriginal content says you can check whether you are "at risk of content recommendation or monetisation penalties" in the Support home screen, "accessible from your Page's or professional profile's main menu."

If your Reels have dropped to near zero, check here as well as Page status. Our Facebook Reels zero views checklist puts all the checks in order.

#How to request a review

What you can do depends on the type of action Facebook took.

#A Community Standards violation on the Page

In Page status, under Recent violations, click See details. Facebook says you can then "either accept the decision or request review depending on the type of violation." Not every violation type has a review option.

#The whole Page was taken down or limited

Facebook's Help Centre says: "If you believe that your Page was taken down or received limits by mistake, submit an appeal by going to the Page and clicking Appeal at the top."

#A post was removed

For content on your profile, Facebook's steps are: click your profile picture, click your profile name, click Options, then Profile status, open the message about the removal, and click Request review if you see it. Facebook says that during busy periods it "may not be able to review all requests". If you still disagree after a review, some decisions can go to the Oversight Board, though Facebook says the board only selects a certain number of eligible appeals.

#A fact check rating

Facebook's rules for fact check reviews are specific:

• Page owners request the review from Page status.
• Submit it within seven days.
• You can request a review of a rating once.
• Do not delete the post, or the review cannot be processed.
• Meta auto rejects requests that have not been processed after 14 days.
• You cannot request a review of content your Page shared but did not create.

#Ad restrictions

Facebook directs advertisers to Business Support Home for the status of their ads and for fact check reviews on ads. Ad account restrictions are a separate process from Page status.

#Common reasons Pages get limited

Facebook's Help Centre lists these, among others:

• The Page publishes spam. Facebook gives the example that "Pages that publish spam may be unpublished or deactivated".
• Admins do not have authentic profiles, or admins have broken the Community Standards.
• The Page has a misleading name or posts content that misleads followers.
• The Page has severely or repeatedly broken Meta's Ads Policies.
• The Page has no admin with full control.

Posting volume counts as spam under Meta's policy, which bans posting "at very high frequencies", manually or automatically. A new Page of Scott's, with about 20 followers, appeared to be limited as spam after being sent 25 to 30 Reels a day by API in September and October 2026. Its new Reels went from 12 to 21 views to 0. The uploads kept succeeding; only Page status and the Professional dashboard showed anything was wrong. Read how often to post Reels on a new Page for what we learned.

#Instagram has its own version

Instagram professional accounts have Account Status, which Instagram says shows whether your content may be recommended to non followers in places such as Explore and Reels, shows a sample of content that may conflict with its Recommendations Guidelines, and lets you request a review if you think a mistake was made. Instagram's creators blog gives the path as Settings, Account, Account Status, but that article dates from 2022, so if you cannot find it there, search for Account Status in the app's settings.

#Can a scheduling app check Page status for you?

Meta documents a Page Integrity webhook that reports a Page as ok, warning, restricted or suspended. The app must subscribe to the business_integrity field, and the Page must grant the pages_manage_metadata permission. Normal publishing calls do not carry this information, so if your tool does not use the webhook, check Page status yourself. That matters most when you bulk upload Reels or schedule Facebook Reels weeks ahead. For the full workflow across platforms, see the cross posting short videos guide.

#Questions people ask

#Where is Page Quality on Facebook now?

Facebook's current Help Centre article calls it Page status, found under Settings, Page setup, Page status. Some third party guides still call it Page Quality, but that is not the name Facebook's own help article uses.

#How long does a Facebook Page review take?

Facebook does not publish a general time. For fact check reviews, fact checkers "try to process requested reviews within three working days", and Meta auto rejects unprocessed requests after 14 days.

#Why is there no Request review button?

Facebook says the option depends "on the type of violation", and for some content types you won't have the option at all.

#My Page status is clean but my Reels get no views. Why?

Page status does not cover every policy, and recommendation penalties show in Support home. Check both, then look at posting volume, originality and captions.