Using your personal login to connect TREV

When connecting Facebook to TREV so we can publish your social posts and listing updates, Facebook requires you to log in using your personal Facebook profile. This is Facebook’s design and applies to all third-party tools such as TREV and Meta Business Suite.

This article explains why this is required, what TREV can and cannot access, and why Facebook may ask you to “switch to your personal profile” during the connection process.

Facebook does not allow apps to log in directly to a business page.

Only real people (personal profiles) can:

log into Facebook
grant permissions to third-party apps
manage or approve access for Facebook Pages

So when you connect TREV:

You log in using your personal profile
Facebook confirms that you have the correct Page access
Facebook then gives TREV a Page Access Token
TREV uses that token to publish to your business page only

Your personal account is only the gateway for authentication.

TREV never posts to your personal profile.

Does TREV get access to my personal Facebook account?

No. Absolutely not.

TREV cannot:

see your personal posts
read your messages
access your friends list
log in as you
post to your personal profile
view your personal timeline

The only permission TREV receives is the ability to publish content to the Facebook Page(s) that you select during the connection process.

You are in full control of what TREV can access.

Will TREV ever post on my personal Facebook profile?

No, never.

TREV only posts to the business page you choose during setup.

Your personal profile is used only to authenticate that you are an authorised admin of the page.

Why does Facebook tell me “You must switch to your personal profile”?

This is the part that causes the most confusion.

Many users run their Facebook Page while “switched into the Page” (Facebook's Page Experience mode).

This is normal, but when connecting apps, Facebook requires you to switch back to the personal profile that owns or manages the page.

This does not mean TREV is trying to manage your personal account.

It simply means:

You must be logged in as a real person to authorise an app.

Once the login is complete, TREV only receives permission for the business page — nothing else.

Why does Facebook work this way?

Because:

Pages are not real accounts
Facebook needs a real person to verify page ownership
All third-party app permissions must be granted by a personal profile

This is a standard Facebook rule and applies to every platform, not just TREV.

What does TREV actually get access to?

Only what you approve during connection:

permission to publish content to the selected business page
permission to read basic page data needed for scheduling
permission to manage your page’s publishing queue

TREV does not receive personal profile permissions.

Does TREV store my Facebook password?

No.

TREV never sees or stores your password.

You enter your password on Facebook’s secure login page, and Facebook sends TREV a token — not your credentials.

If I change my Facebook password, do I need to reconnect?

Not usually, but it can happen.

Facebook may revoke app tokens when passwords or security settings change.

If that happens, simply reconnect in TREV.

Your personal profile is still only used for authentication.

Summary

Using your personal Facebook profile to connect TREV is:

required by Facebook
safe
normal for all social tools
limited strictly to page permissions
never used to access or post to your personal profile

Your personal login is simply the key that unlocks permission for TREV to publish to your business page, nothing more.