Content visibility settings affect what content people who are not members of your group can see before joining. These settings only affect the content of your group. Private and Public Meetup groups will both appear in search results and recommendations to members. Learn more about content visibility settings.
Making a group private is a permanent change. If you make your group private, you won’t be able to make it public again. When you change the content visibility settings of a group, members will be alerted via email notification.
To change your group’s content visibility to private:
- Log in to Meetup on a desktop computer.
- From your Meetup group’s homepage, select Manage group.
- Choose Edit group settings.
- Select Group Privacy.
- Choose either Public or Private.
- Confirm with Save.
Private groups
The following information is visible to everyone, including non-members:
- Basic group information like date founded, number of members, and group reviews
- Group description
- The name and profile photo of the main organizer(s)
- The group's cover photo
- Sponsors
- Date and time of upcoming events
- Title of upcoming events
Public groups
The following information is visible to everyone who has logged into their Meetup account:
- Basic group information like date founded, number of members, and group reviews
- Group description
- Name of the main organizer(s) and their photo
- Date and time of upcoming events
- Title of upcoming events
- The location of upcoming events
- A list of members RSVPed to an event and the event description and host name(s)
- The group's full member list, group's photo albums, and discussion boards
- New activity posted on the group
- Past event details
Information will be restricted for non-members or guests visiting Meetup without logging into an account.