How long does a Facebook ban last?

Updated 21 October 2026

Why acting early matters: Facebook's help pages say you can appeal a suspension within 180 days. If you don't appeal in that time, or the appeal fails, Facebook permanently disables the account. The page also says the time to appeal varies by region. The longer an account is down, the more followers, customers and conversations move on. See what is at stake

How long your Facebook ban lasts depends on what kind it is. A feature restriction usually has an end date, shown in Account Status. A suspension has a countdown to disagree, which Facebook's help pages put at 180 days. A review has no published time limit. If you live in the EU, fixed legal deadlines also apply: at least six months to complain, 90 days for a dispute body and one month for a data request.

Match your situation to a timeline

Feature restriction

Limits on posting in groups, commenting, going live or messaging often come with a date. Open Account Status and look for when the restriction ends. Meta's Transparency Center describes stricter penalties for repeated violations, so a second restriction may last longer than the first. If the restriction has no date, it stays until Facebook lifts it or you get it reviewed.

Suspension

A suspended account normally shows a countdown to disagree with the decision. That's your real deadline inside Facebook. If it passes without action, the account may be permanently disabled.

Disabled account under review

After you disagree, the notice usually says your account is being reviewed. Facebook doesn't promise how long that takes. Checking the login screen now and then is enough. Repeated submissions don't move you up a queue.

Ad accounts and Pages

Business assets are reviewed through Meta's business tools, on their own timeline. A Page or ad account can stay restricted while your profile is fine, or the other way round.

The legal time limits in the EU

If you live in the EU, these are the dates you can count on:

• Six months or more: the period after a decision during which you can file a free internal complaint with Facebook.
• Timely and without undue delay: complaints must be handled in a timely, careful, non-arbitrary way, not by automated means alone, and a wrong decision must be reversed without undue delay.
• 90 days: the time a certified dispute body has to decide, from when it receives your complaint. In very complex cases it can take up to 90 days longer.
• One month: the time Meta has to answer a GDPR request for your data, extendable by up to two months for complex requests if Meta tells you why.

The deadline calculator turns these into dates for your case.

You don't have to wait for Facebook

In the EU, a certified dispute body can take your case without the internal complaint finishing, or even starting. Appeals Centre Europe, User Rights and Platform Control list Facebook. If a review is dragging on and the account matters to you, this lets you get an independent decision within a known time.

Outside the EU, waiting for Facebook's own review is usually the only option, so keep your evidence ready.

Using the waiting time

1. Write down every date: decision, appeal, any reply.
2. Request your data from Meta if you live in the EU.
3. Tell contacts how to reach you outside Facebook.
4. If others help run your Pages, make sure they can keep them going.

What not to do while waiting

Don't make a new profile to bridge the gap. It is likely to count as evading the ban. And don't pay anyone who promises a "priority review": Facebook doesn't sell one.

If your review was rejected, see Facebook appeal denied. If you are under a narrower limit, read Facebook account restricted. The Facebook hub lists every problem.

Checked against: transparency.meta.com, facebook.com