How to Recover Your Disabled Facebook Ad Account

Does your business rely on Facebook advertising? Do you know what to do if your Facebook Ads account gets disabled? Well, continue reading our guide on how to recover your disabled social media Facebook account.

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What does it mean if my Facebook Ad account has been disabled?

If you choose to delete your Facebook Ads account, you will lose the ability to see and track all of the metrics related to your business that you gained from the ads you’ve been running on Facebook. In other words, you will not be able to see which Facebook ads are performing and which aren’t. In fact, you will no longer have a reason to report on the effectiveness of your Facebook ads campaign. While this can be inconvenient at times, it shouldn’t have any impact on your decision to switch to another advertising platform. If you have an ad-buying platform that can allow you to run different ad formats, you can keep your ad-buying platform if you want to use Facebook Ads in the future. Fortunately, there are ways you can get your Facebook Ads account back.

What are the common reasons why your Facebook Ads account may be disabled?

Many Facebook users have experienced issues with their Facebook Ads account over the last few years. These include: Your account is banned or disabled for spamming the platform (especially embarrassing) You haven’t updated your adverts in a while. You have been rejected by your Facebook Audience. An outage of a popular Facebook service, such as the Facebook API (or the Facebook Platform), cause some Facebook users to not be able to access the platform for a certain amount of time (days). This outage often brings Facebook Ads down completely. How to recover your disabled Facebook Ads account If you find that your Facebook Ads account is not available to you, there are some steps you can take to resolve the issue. Set up an account with the latest Facebook Ad management system.

How do I know if my Facebook Ad account is disabled?

Most Facebook Ad account owners rely on Facebook to make up to 80% of their total sales volume. It is therefore necessary to be able to quickly and easily log into their account when an issue arises. Otherwise, your business will not be able to deliver your message effectively and the chance of them making sales will diminish significantly. Most Facebook users agree that login issues are the most common reason why your Facebook Ads account might get disabled. It is worth mentioning that user error is the primary cause for this error and not a matter of Facebook. Fortunately, if you are prepared to take the time to learn how to do it and do it properly, you can return to business as usual. And, you will know exactly how to do it.

What can I do to recover my disabled Facebook Ad account?

You need to first determine what exactly is going on with your Facebook account. When your Facebook ad account gets disabled, it means you’ve hit a sensitive-target quota for the given month, which can range from 50,000 to 100,000 impressions for that month. This means that you only have about 30 days in which to reach this specific goal. If you don’t manage to hit this quota, your account will become disabled. After you receive the message that your account is disabled, you need to visit your Facebook ad account control panel and click on “Restore Account” on the top right corner. You will then need to fill in the form and confirm that you are the Facebook ad account owner and that you will never log into this account. After clicking “Restore Account,” the rest is up to you.

Resuming Facebook advertising

The above is a good starting point to understand how to recover your disabled Facebook ad account. Even if you still have an active account, do keep in mind that in this day and age, not every business will be lucky enough to get a working Facebook ad account after it is disabled. As such, be proactive and as mentioned before, read all your Facebook advertisements to ensure that they are fully up to date and to avoid inadvertently posting a faulty ad!

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