Every Facebook user wants to keep his/her account safe from prying eyes and hackers. Keeping this in mind Facebook has added an extra layer of security in its security settings by introducing “notifications for logins from new devices” feature.
How Facebook Login Notification feature Works?
To get this feature working, first of all you need to enable the notifications from your facebook Account Settings and then you have to register your computers you use to access your facebook account. For any login to your facebook account from a unregistered computer (probably the one you never used before) or unregistered mobile device, facebook notifies you via Email or SMS about your facebook account hack.
How to Enable and Customize Facebook Login Notification Feature
Follow the steps given below to enable the notifications for every login to your facebook account from the new devices (which you have never used in the past to access facebook).
Step 1: Enabling Notifications for logins from New Devices
In the top right portion of your Facebook profile page or homepage you can see three tabs namely Home, Profile, Account. Click on the Account tab and then click on the Account Settings in the drop down menu (see the screenshot below)
After clicking on the Account Settings tab you will land up on a page where you can customize your account settings by changing your name, username, email etc. Scroll down the page you’re on, click on the second last option of Account Security.
Here you can enable notifications for logins to your facebook account from new devices. Click on Yes and then hit the Submit button. This will enable Login notifications for your facebook account.
Step 2: Facebook Computer Registration
Now Logout your facebook account and then login again. Just after login you will see a page prompting you to register your computer.
Name your computer whatever you want and also specify whether you want Facebook to remember the computer being registered or not. For public computers make sure you leave this box unchecked and for personal computers it should be checked.
Similarly you can register other computers or mobile devices too by following the same procedure mention above. For managing your registered computers, go to Account (in top right corner of facebook homepage) >> Account Settings >> Account Security.
Now for any login to your facebook account from an unregistered computer, facebook will send you notifications via email or SMS.
Note: If you will clear your browser cookies for any reason after registering a computer then you would have to register it again.
Shahab khan is a Tech blogger from India & a founder of VirginTech. He blogs about Technology, internet, Social media, computer tips & tricks and Web 2.0. 
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I’ve registered almost all the computers at my home
Nice move by Facebook, I think we will see more good feature added soon.
Hi Shahab,
Can i get the log in notifications on my mobile phone in addition to my email whenever someone log in to my account from some public computer?
Hi Amit,
Thanks for commenting.
You can add your mobile phones to receive the login notifications on mobile by going to your “Account settings”. There will see number of tabs like settings, network, mobile etc. Select the mobile tab and add your mobile phone to your facebook account.
Hi
if someone hacks my account on facebook will the notification gives me information about the location of the device that hacked my account?
Hi matt!
No it won’t give you the location of the device through which your Account was accessed. The exact email that you will get from facebook in this kind of situation is as follows.
are there any email providers (yahoo, gmail…) that offer a similar notification when the account is accessed?
thanks
I am not 100% sure but I think there is no such facility with any email service providers.
You don’t get notifications, however, if you go to a site like Gmail, you can click the “Details” link beside the IP address in parentheses, and it will give you a history of your most recent logins along with their IP’s.
First of all thanks for letting us know about the Gmail’s Details link feature Rob! That’s really a cool feature. Btw once you have registered your PC with your Facebook account, then on login to your facebook account from unregistered computer, you will receive a login notification from facebook.
I don’t get the pop-up window about registering my computer, is there any other way I can get on to this?
Thanks
Hello Lorna!
After following step1 just re-login to your Facebook account and you will be redirected to a page where you can register your computer. Its very easy, give it a try once more.
Hi!
I’ve activated this feature in facebook and it does provide the IP Address of the computer where it is accessed, so its easier to track their location. Now, what if I mistakenly disabled a device, is there a way to enable it again?
Thanks!
hi,
You can enable it again. If you mistakenly disable a registered device, in other words you remove the registered device from the list of registered devices, then you can again register the same device. I hope this helps. Let me know in case you have any issues in doing that.
Cheers
Thank you Shabab! I’ve been looking for an answer for that for the past 2 days already..
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hi,
i have enabled the security security notification of namin my device…. Now every time i try to log in it shows a message error..Plz help me out…
thanks
Hi, please help. Someone keeps hacking into my son’s FB account and email account. I keep changing the passwords but they are still getting in. I went to FB security and enabled the login notifications and approvals, however under recognized devices the hacker’s device is listed. I keep clicking the remove button but it won’t remove. please help!!!
Hi gina,
You should do two things. Firstly change your facebook password as soon as possible. Secondly, you must change the password of the email address linked to your facebook account. This is the same email address on which you get all your facebook notification emails. Once these steps are done the hacker wouldn’t be able to get into your account. Also give this article a read: 3 Facebook Advanced Security Features To Make Your Facebook Account More Secure. I am sure it will be helpful to you.
how can i remove Login Notifications enabled from my account???
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