How to Disable the Social Bar (Like, Comment, Views, Save for later) in Modern Site Pages

I was trying to find an option to remove the social bar icons which appear in SharePoint modern sites, but there seems to be no option in the Site or Page settings of SharePoint that could achieve this, but by using a few tweaks commands with PowerShell it was easy to achieve this goal. This article gives a detailed description of the commands used in PowerShell to remove the Social Bar which is of really no use in a corporate page.

First, check if you have the SharePoint Online Management Shell by running the following command in administrative mode in PowerShell

Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select Name,Version

if you don’t have it, you need to install the latest SharePoint Online Management Shell is installed and connect to SharePoint Online.

Install the SharePoint Online Management Shell by downloading and running the SharePoint Online Management Shell or installing the module from the PowerShell Gallery. Once installed, the module is available for use, and you do not need to install it again until you need features introduced in a later version.

To open the SharePoint Online Management Shell command prompt, from the Start screen, type SharePoint, and then click SharePoint Online Management Shell.

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell

Requirement: Disable Social Bar links (Like, Comment, Views, Save for later) in SharePoint Online Modern Site Pages

PowerShell to Hide Social Bar Links in SharePoint Online Site Collection:
The Social Bar is a new feature in SharePoint Online modern pages, that lets users to like, comment, and see the number of views. To disable social bar, Run this PowerShell script in SharePoint Online Management Shell. Make sure you set the parameters accordingly.

#Set Parameters
$AdminCenterURL="https://alamarfoods-admin.sharepoint.com"
$SiteURL = "https://alamarfoods.sharepoint.com/sites/support"
 
#Connect to SharePoint Online
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential)
 
#Disable Social Bar on Site Pages
Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteURL -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $True

If you want to disable at a tenant level

Set-SPOTenant -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $true