Hiding VKontakte photos from others: setting album privacy levels


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Not every person wants his photo albums to be seen by all users registered on the VKontakte social network. It will be easy to hide them; you need to know some small nuances. In this article we will look at how to hide an album in VK.

How to close an album in contact?

If you have uploaded your personal photos to contact and created photo albums, then you may have a question about how to close the album in contact and thereby hide it from prying eyes. Fortunately, this is now possible, and the contact provides a wide range of interpretations of the availability of your album for viewing by different groups of users.

  • In order to make an album private, you need to go to the page with all your albums. They are viewed in the form of small windows with the main photo.
  • In the upper right corner of each of these windows you will see a small button with the image of a pencil; if you hover over it with the mouse, the words “Edit Album” will appear. By clicking on this button, go to the editing menu. Here you can change the album name, description, and also set privacy.
  • Next to the question “Who can view this album?”, you will see a drop-down menu. Now choose who can see photos from your album: only friends, no one, that is, only you, friends and friends of friends, you can limit viewing to one or more users, and so on. It is possible to create a certain group of your friends, who, for example, are your colleagues, and make access to the album open only to them.
  • Select the option that suits you best from this list. Remember that only those groups of people to whom you have allowed access will be able to view closed albums in contact. In the same way, you can configure who can comment on your photos.

You can also make photos in which you have been tagged by your friends private.

  • To do this, go to the “My Settings” menu, select the “Privacy” tab.
  • In the drop-down list, find the question “Who can see photos with me”, now, just like in the privacy settings of the album, select the people who can see the photos in which you were tagged.

You can change your privacy settings for viewing photos completely free of charge and every day. Unfortunately, you can only hide the entire album; individual photos cannot be hidden. But only those people you really trust will be able to view closed albums in VKontakte.

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The above instructions only work on manually created collections. What about the automatic folders that the system creates, for example, “Photos from my page”, “Saved pictures”, “Photos from the wall”? If you hover the cursor over them, no pencil will appear on the avatar - so how can you delete a VKontakte album created without your participation, and is this even possible in principle?

To clear the contents, do the following:

Go to the desired folder,

Open the images one by one;

Under each photo, click on the “Delete” button;

  • You are not allowed to open pictures from the wall - just move the cursor over the picture and click on the pop-up cross;
  • When you have processed all the files, exit the collection and refresh the page;
  • Ready!

How to make a private photo album in a group on VKontakte?

Visit the group page. Select “community management” under the group avatar. In the lists of possible content availability, select the words “photos” and “limited”. Therefore, click on the photo album in the lower right corner, after which you will go to a page with a list of albums. For the desired album, click on the “edit” icon; it appears when you hover over the album in the upper right corner, in the form of a “pencil”. Click it and in the window that appears, check the two boxes.

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Today the social network Vkontate offers similar services. If you do not want any of your photos to be viewed by all visitors to the page, but only by a certain circle of people, you can easily do this.

Photo return methods

  1. In the event that the user mistakenly clicked on the “x” sign at the top of the picture, clicking on the word “cancel” in the window that appears will help to refuse hiding and not lose the image in the feed;
  2. If the user has hidden the thumbnail on the main page by clicking on the cross and confirmed his action, then it will be possible to return the mini-image to its place by re-filling the image. To do this, you need to go to the album containing the last photo, delete it or save it to your computer (if the original version was lost). Next, select the “Add photo” function and select the required image to upload;
  3. When you place photos in a special album with restrictions, small copies of them are not displayed in the feed on the main page. This situation can be corrected by changing the parameters for limited access of persons to view album information to a wider range of VK users.

Another option for returning hidden photos to VK is to transfer images from a secret folder to an album without restrictive parameters.

How to hide an album with photos on VKontakte?

In fact, everything is very simple. You can hide it as a separate album, or allow only friends to view it, you can also prohibit comments on your photos in the album, or allow only your friends to comment on them. You can even prohibit viewing the album and commenting on specific users of the VKontakte social network.

If you came to this page, then you definitely want to see how to hide albums, and I have already loaded you with unnecessary text. I apologize and continue.

How to hide a VKontakte album?

This means we log in to VKontakte, go to the page with our albums, and go to the album to which we want to deny access or the ability to leave comments.

On the album page, click “Edit Album”.

On the new page you can change the album name, description and cover. And of course, you can change the settings for viewing and editing the album.

Opposite “Who can view this album?” indicate who can watch this album, you can choose one of the options that suits you.

“Who can comment on the photos?” By using this item, you can prohibit or allow commenting on this album.

After these procedures, click on the button “Save changes”.

With these simple steps, you can prohibit viewing and commenting on your photos and albums on the VKontakte social network. Good luck friends, and don’t spend a lot of time on the Internet.

Hiding albums

If you just want to hide the information from prying eyes rather than delete it, there is another option. Move the necessary albums to “hidden” and only you can view them.

Access settings can be found in album editing mode. If you select “only me” in the “who can view the album” drop-down list, it will disappear for all other users. It is recommended to configure all personal information in this way so that it does not fall into the hands of ill-wishers. Better yet, don’t post any of your data on a social network at all. Despite all the modern tools designed to ensure information security that are available in the arsenal of large companies, news of a client base leaked to the Internet every now and then appears in the media.

How to create an album in a VK group

Open the community and find “Add Photos” on the right side of the page. If you have not yet uploaded images, an automatically created section will open. Go to the “All Photos” tab.

You need a "Create Album" button. It's on the right. Come up with a title and description. Check the boxes if you want to disable comments and limit access.

You can now add pictures. VKontakte has a simple editor with a small number of functions:

To get into it, just hover your mouse over the picture and select the first icon.

View hidden VK pages without id

In addition to the methods listed above, there is another extremely simple and convenient way to view hidden VKontakte pages. It allows you to do without authorization and id search. To use the mentioned method, you will need:

  • enter the link https://vk.com/search into the address bar of your browser;
  • use the standard person search on VKontakte;
  • scroll through photo albums and photographs by simply clicking on the icon with the image of the desired person;
  • go to the found page for a more detailed view.

The most important advantages of the described approach are that there is no need to use third-party services and programs. It is guaranteed free and safe, and the user himself does not risk anything.

Free programs

It is important to emphasize that most of the programs are absolutely free, so users should not worry about possible costs or unreliability of the service. The above also applies to the programs listed above for VK

In situations where the user is required to pay for services provided, it is worth thinking about the quality of the system. Perhaps the money is being demanded by scammers who want to profit from someone else’s carelessness. Therefore, before using an unverified application, you should look for additional information and read the reviews of people who have already used it. These simple steps will help you avoid trouble.

The user is hidden from everyone except friends, and to see his photo you need to find out his id, for this you need to look at his link and remember the numbers at the end (if the user has his own page address, and there are no numbers at the end of the link, then read here) now let's go , for example, to your albums and instead of your numbers, substitute its id (identifier)

It is not rational to enter all this manually in the age of automatic technologies, so use the automatic generator of links to hidden VKontakte pages. Enter the id (identifier) ​​or copy the link to the hidden user’s profile, paste it into the field below and click “Submit”.

*if the user has his own page address, then enter only the id. How to find out the id

How to add an album to a group in contact and edit it

If you want to change your settings, go to the section of the same name in your community. It's on the right. Select the folder you will convert and click “Edit Album” (pencil icon). You can:

  • Change name, description.
  • Make the album your main one.
  • Delete it.
  • Install a new cover.

Let's talk in more detail about the last point. If you do not select a photo for yourself, VK will select the last uploaded picture as the cover image. It's easy to do. Hover your cursor over the image – “Change cover”.

How to hide an album in a group in contact

It is impossible to hide it from a specific person or circle of people in the community. You can disable comments and restrict others' access to uploading photos. We described how to do this in the first part of the article. The second option is to disable the display of photos for everyone. To do this, go to “Management” –– “Sections” –– “Photos” –– “Disabled”. When you refresh the page, you will see that there are no pictures on the page.

The process of hiding a photo

Before considering the question of the ability to view hidden photos, it is worth briefly considering the topic of hiding them. To hide your photos, you will need to follow these steps:

  • You need to go to the VK page;
  • On the left, find the line “My settings” and activate it;
  • Open the “Privacy” subsection;
  • Special privacy settings will appear. They can be installed at your discretion.

You can hide not only photos, but also audio recordings, posts and friends. Having selected the line that reflects who can see the photo, you need to determine who will be allowed to see personal photos. Here you can choose complete privacy by setting it to “only me” or allowing viewing only for friends. The installed functions begin to operate immediately after the settings have been made.

How to organize video content on VK

The algorithm of actions is practically the same. First you need to enable the ability to work with video, then on the main page click “Add video.” It's on the bottom right. You can upload files from your computer, another site, or posts previously added to the community.

Then click "Create Album". Enter the title. You can also add content from different sources to it. Of the editing functions, only changing the name is available.

Now you know how to add an album to a VK group. Sometimes users have problems loading images. In this case, VKontakte advises you to update your browser or flash player or contact support.

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Not every person wants his photo albums to be seen by all users registered on the VKontakte social network. It will be easy to hide them; you need to know some small nuances. In this article we will look at how to hide an album in VK.

Viewing hidden VK photos

In the process of exploring the possibilities and simply using the pages of the modern social network VKontakte, users have a large number of questions.

One of the most common is the solution to the problem of how to view hidden photos on VKontakte.

Quite often, users hide their profiles completely or partially, so it is not possible to view their photos.

The process of hiding a photo

Before considering the question of the ability to view hidden photos, it is worth briefly considering the topic of hiding them. To hide your photos, you will need to follow these steps:

  • You need to go to the VK page;
  • On the left, find the line “My settings” and activate it;
  • Open the “Privacy” subsection;
  • Special privacy settings will appear. They can be installed at your discretion.

You can hide not only photos, but also audio recordings, posts and friends. Having selected the line that reflects who can see the photo, you need to determine who will be allowed to see personal photos. Here you can choose complete privacy by setting it to “only me” or allowing viewing only for friends. The installed functions begin to operate immediately after the settings have been made.

So, how to see hidden photos of VK users? There is no official scheme of action here, since the developers of the social network respect the desire of users to maintain their privacy. If you want to view hidden VK photos, you should follow these steps:

  1. You need to go to the profile of the user whose photo you want to see.
  2. Click on an empty space with a regular mouse button.
  3. Select the “View page source code” section.
  4. Press Ctrl+F.
  5. In the search, enter “albums”, only without quotes.
  6. Numbers appear in the line after this word; they need to be copied. This is the page code.
  7. You need to go to the user’s profile again and enter “?z=albums” in the address bar after the ID, also without quotes.
  8. The previously copied fragment is pasted.
  9. Press Enter and enjoy seeing hidden photos.

Important! This option to view private photos if access is closed is not entirely legal, the VK administration does not approve of it

Website for viewing hidden photos on VKontakte

This method can be used in the case of an already received code fragment, which can be obtained using the method described above.

To view hidden photos, you need to return to the desired page, on the social networking site in the browser search bar, enter a link organized by type - vk.com/id.....

, where after ID comes the page identification number. Next, place the cursor at the very end of the address and immediately enter the special characters “?z=”.

As a result of such actions, the following message will appear in the line of the working browser: vk.com/id......?z=albums....., where the ellipsis is the user ID. After pressing Enter, all photos of the person of interest will automatically open to your attention.

Conclusion

With the fairly simple methods presented to your attention, you can study photos of users in closed albums without any problems. The main advantage of such techniques is the ability to see photos in the albums of those people who are no longer friends on VK and complete strangers.

Ways to hide an album in VK

The VKontakte administration has slightly changed the privacy settings. There is a function to hide an album not only with downloaded photos, but also with saved ones. This can be done both from a computer and from a mobile device.

After creating an album, you can immediately mark who can view it. To do this, you first need to specify the appropriate privacy rules. There are the following viewing options: for all users, some friends, or only you will be allowed. To make a specific album unavailable, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your profile, select the appropriate album.
  2. Find the "Edit Album" item. Here you can not only change privacy settings, but also change the name of this folder.
  3. Click on the line “Who can view this album” and select the appropriate option.
  4. The last action will be to click the “Save Changes” button.

Using these instructions, it is possible to prohibit users of the social network on VKontakte from viewing the album and existing comments.

From a mobile phone

On a mobile device, the actions will be similar; it is important to follow the entire sequence. Any person can do this.

Android

For this device, log into the VKontakte application, then follow the group of recommendations:

  1. In the menu located on the left side of the application, click on the camera icon and select “Albums”.
  2. Find the folder, click on the three dots located at the top.
  3. In the drop-down menu, click on the “Edit” item.
  4. Next, items will appear, find “Who can view this album.”
  5. Select “Only me” from the list, so only you will have access.

If you need to transfer an image to a hidden album, open it, then follow these steps:

  1. Click on the three dots located on the photo.
  2. Select Edit.
  3. In the menu that appears, click on the line “Move to album”. Then specify a closed folder.

iPhone

On this device, all of the above recommendations will be the same, since the VKontakte application is similar. Follow all steps as for Android.

A way to quickly view images

You can try this method to view photos that are closed from the public, if photos are partially hidden in a certain album. That is, you can view some in normal mode, others are not available to you because the user has closed general viewing.

  1. Find a person on VKontakte whose photos are private and you would like to see them.
  2. Open an album with partially covered images. Any album can be checked in this way, because they may also contain hidden photos.
  3. At the bottom of the window, find the “Quick View” button.
  4. Next, in this viewing mode, you need to stop at the photo that is in front of the closed one. After that it will be open. You can experiment and pause the view after each image.
  5. You can save it or remember the ID from the address bar to open it next time without the method described above.
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