How to hide a dialogue in VK without deleting it?

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Most users prefer their messages to be private and no one can read them. There is a radical method - deletion, but you don’t always want to lose your memories. Unfortunately, the creators of the VKontakte website did not provide a function for hiding messages. That is why a frequently asked question has become “How to hide a dialogue in VK?” In this article we will look at the pros and cons of this feature.

Checking the VKopt extension in action

Before preparing this material, I analyzed information regarding the recovery of deleted messages. Many people advised using the VKopt extension. Supposedly, you can use it to collect all the statistics of your messages (see), and view any dialogue, including deleted ones. I tested this extension at work. Here's what I got.

https://vkopt.net/download/

Select the version for your browser and install in standard mode. After that, go to your VK page.

Set the parameters as shown in the image below. Then click the "Let's go" button.

Please wait some time for all data to be processed.

As a result, you will get this result.

All your dialogues will be collected here. Pay attention to the "Last message" column. The date and time are indicated there - and they are made in the form of a link. The developers claim that if you click on it, you will be taken to a dialogue page. Even if it was deleted.

But this function doesn't work! I specifically tried to delete correspondence with the user, then went to it from the “Statistics” page. As a result, I ended up with a general list of dialogues.

I discussed all 3 methods in a short video tutorial.

How to read correspondence on WhatsApp?

Most instant messengers use end-to-end encryption, which prevents the conversation between two or more users from being hacked directly. The simplest methods can be considered the following “tricks”:

If you often see your interlocutor in person, then the easiest way is to take his device and look at messages at the moment when he is absent. However, remember that a person can protect himself with an unlock code or fingerprint;
using the Web version of the messenger. To do this, you will also need the victim's smartphone. On your computer, open web WhatsApp in any browser. Synchronize the site not with your phone, but with a friend’s phone. After this, all messages and conversations will be duplicated on your PC. However, this only works if the account owner does not suspect anything wrong;
You can read the dialogues using spy programs that can be installed on Android smartphones. Unfortunately, there are no such utilities for iOS. For example, WhatsApp Sniffer, which will help you gain full access to information on the “victim’s” phone. You can install it for free. First, you need to get a unique MAC code: find it out from a friend’s phone, via a Wi-Fi connection, or using a special SMS message/call to the victim. Having received the MAC code, open the utility and click spoof;
The last option is to turn to hackers for help.

How else can you see another person’s correspondence?

There is a special type of program called keyloggers. They are known for recording all keystrokes on the computer keyboard into a special file. By opening it, you can find out what words the user typed. The popular utility Punto Switcher is not only an automatic keyboard layout switcher, but also a keylogger.

Description of Punto Switcher functions

By installing the program from the website https://yandex.ru/soft/punto/, you can monitor the entered sentences on your computer. From the history of this program you can find out the login and password for the Vkontakte page. Go to your profile with this data and read someone else’s correspondence on the VK social network yourself. Don't forget to delete data from your browser history. And also configure the program so that it does not track the keyboard. You can find out all the details on the download page in the “Help” section. Punto Switcher can be installed and configured not only on your computer. The main thing is to do this unnoticed by the PC owner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPno3vD_OyA

How to hide a friend from other users in VK?

It would seem that a person who has registered on any social network already becomes a public person, whom an audience of thousands, or even millions, can watch. However, there is a type among users who does not like all this openness and therefore hides their friends and closes their profile from prying eyes. But there are also those who simply want to hide one or more people from prying eyes. How to do it? Now we'll find out.

Hiding friends through settings

Of course, there are a huge number of programs on the Internet that can help you hide your friends. However, why fill your computer's memory with unnecessary software, which can also introduce a virus into your computer? It is better to do it yourself without outside help.

So, in order to hide your friend from prying eyes, first, you need to log in to the VKontakte social network. Once you are on your page, click on your avatar.

A window with various notifications will appear in front of you, but you need to select “Settings”.

After the settings section has opened, in the right corner there will be a list with different items. You also need a section called “Privacy”.

When this section opens, you should go to the first item “My Page”, scroll a little down your page, and then click on “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”.

By clicking on “All Friends”, a window with all your friends will appear in front of you. Select the user you want to hide or all.

After that, in the “Who sees my secret friends” item, you must select the “Only me” option.

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to hide absolutely everyone. If you have only 15 friends, then you will be able to hide them from prying eyes, but if you have more than 15 or 30 of them, then alas, no matter how regrettable it may be, you will not succeed. Yes, it would seem that the social network VKonakte is a multifunctional platform that provides each user with a huge range of different functions, but even such a well-known service has its pros and cons. Now you know how to hide a friend from other users on VK.

Hiding friends by closing the page

However, if you want to close your page, then fortunately there is a way out. If you don’t know how this is done, then we will now tell you about it in detail.

So, first you need to log in to the VKontakte social network. Go to your page and select the “Settings” section.

Once in your account settings, you must select “Privacy”.

Having selected this section, you need to scroll to the very end of the page. In the “Other” item there are several functions, among which you can see “Profile Type”, all of them have “Open”. You need to select “Closed”.

By clicking on “Closed”, a small window will appear in front of you in which you will have to select “Yes, close”.

After that, to make sure that your profile is private, at the very end of the page you should select “To make sure that you have set appropriate privacy settings, you can see how other users see your page.”

As you can see, the profile is private and no one will be able to comment on your posts, photos and videos. Moreover, an unfamiliar profile will not be able to see your friends, since only you and your friends see them.

Now you know how to hide a friend in VK so that no one sees him and how to close your profile. We hope this article helped you.

How to open hidden conversations in Kate Mobile

Now, to find and display secret dialogues yourself, follow these steps:

Click on the search icon while in the application;
Select “Messages” from the “Search type” list;
Finding hidden dialogs
Enter the PIN code you created earlier. After entering the code, you will immediately be transferred to “Messages”, where all dialogs will be displayed;

In order to open a hidden dialogue and it will no longer disappear, hold your finger on the desired one and select the “ Make dialogue visible ” item.

Make dialogue visible

How to change PIN code in Kate Mobile?

In order to change the secret code on the main screen of the application, click on the “Settings” icon, then go to “Messages”, “Hidden dialogs” and select “Change PIN code”. You must enter the old pin and the new one below. The job is done and the messages are safe. I hope you figured out how to enable and configure hidden dialogs in Kate Mobile . Below is a brief overview of the application:

Sources used:

https://sergoot.ru/hidden-chats-in-kate-mobile
https://kate-mobilez.ru/skrytye-dialogi-v-kate-mobile.html
https://katemobiles.ru/skrytye-soobshheniya-v-kate-mobile.html
https://katemobile-s.ru/kak-v-kejt-mobajl-otkryt-skrytyj-dialog.html
https://itpen.ru/skrytye-dialogi-v-kate-mobile/

How to hide on a mobile device?

If you are a mobile device user, you need to download the Kate Mobile application. This is one of the most popular replacements for the official VKontakte application, which has a number of additional features, one of which is hiding correspondence.

How to hide messages in VK on your phone:

Open Google Play Market or App Store (depending on what smartphone you use).
In the search, find the “Kate Mobile” application and install it.
Launch and log in using your login and password from your VK account.
Select the desired dialog and hold your finger on it until an additional menu appears.
In it, select the “Hide dialog” item.
If the procedure is being performed for the first time, the system will ask you to provide a PIN code that will be required to gain access to hidden messages. Enter the code.

Ready!

To display them again, you must:

Open message search (magnifying glass icon at the top).
Enter your PIN code.

After this, all hidden correspondence will appear. If you close the application, they will disappear again. And to return the dialogue forever, you need to hold your finger on it again until the menu appears and select the “Make dialogue visible” item.

How to restore VKontakte correspondence?

Messages that were accidentally deleted from the dialogue can be restored. This is done without downloading any programs, for free. The correspondence you just deleted, if there is a need to return it, can be restored right there in the dialogue by clicking on the “Restore” button. If you have left the correspondence, you will not be able to return it later.

If you want to get acquainted with the completely deleted history of messages, you can know the mobile phone of the interlocutor and have access to his email (this is where messages are automatically sent). If VKontakte notifications are enabled, then the user’s correspondence is detected in SMS messages on the phone. The correspondence disappears completely if the user clears it.

It may not be difficult to ask your VKontakte interlocutor to forward messages. These simple steps allow you to solve the problem
VKontakte correspondence .
You can add likes to your VKontakte posts or photos here

). But what if you suddenly need to access remote correspondence?

Now we will look at how you can view deleted messages in a contact.

If you deleted one or more messages in a conversation, you can restore it directly in the chat window. To do this, click on the “Restore” link.

Please note that if you delete individual messages in this way, they will remain in the dialog of the user with whom you are talking.

After restoration, messages will be available in standard mode.

If you have completely deleted a dialogue with a user, it is possible to restore it through a support request (see).

Go to page:

https://vk.com/support?act=new

Please note that the brief information states that a copy of your conversation is saved by the user with whom you are corresponding. Therefore, you can ask him to send you the entire correspondence history.

But let's get back to communicating with support.

In the “Describe your problem” block, enter any text.

Below are instructions that should help you solve the problem. If you do not find the answer there, then click the button “None of these options are suitable.”

You will be moved to a new window. Here click the “Ask a Question” button.

Post your request in a special form. Ask for your correspondence with the user to be restored. Indicate the address or id of its page (see).

All that remains is to wait for the result. The answer will be displayed on the “My Questions” tab.

Restoring the conversation

First, about how dialogues are classified. First, go to the list of conversations, then call up the contact’s context menu and click “Hide” in it. Finally, enter your PIN code. Remember these numbers, or better yet, save them in your password manager, because you will need them to later return the hidden chat in Viber to normal mode.

Now let’s talk about how to cancel hidden chat in Viber. We will provide instructions for the most common platforms where this messenger is used. Let's start with iOS:

Open an invisible conversation (enter your PIN code in the search bar).
Choose a username.

Swipe left / select Information & Settings.
Click "Make Visible".
The system will ask you to enter your Pin or use Touch ID. Enter.
Ready. The dialogue is displayed again in the general list.

How to cancel hidden chat on Android in Viber:

Open hidden correspondence (enter your pin in the search bar).
Click the “Advanced options” button in the upper right part of the screen (three dots).
Swipe the screen to the left, or click on the “Information” button.
Click "Make visible".
Enter your PIN code.
The conversation returns to its original place in the list.

Please note that you can remove a chat from hidden in Viber without losing the correspondence history only by knowing the PIN code numbers. Without them, you can only reset the pin and start a conversation with the person again. However, the entire history will be deleted permanently.

How to hide on PC?

If you are a PC or laptop user, then I can offer you one rather interesting way to hide VK messages. This is done using a special browser extension – AdBlock.

Many people know this service as a tool for removing annoying advertisements. But few people know that it can also be used to hide messages on VKontakte. How to do it:

Install the AdBlock extension. To do this, go to your browser's Settings, then open the Add-ons/Extensions section, depending on which browser you are using.
Enter “Adblock” into the search bar.
Then install exactly this extension (not analogues).
After installation, open the page with VK correspondence.
The AdBlock service icon will appear in the browser interface. Click on it.
In the menu that appears, select “Block ads on this page.”
Click on the area with the desired dialogue so that it is all highlighted, as in the screenshot below.
Once the messages have disappeared, click the "Looks Good" button.
Confirm the action by clicking the “Block!” button.

To show hidden elements again, you need to follow these steps:

Open the page with VK messages.
Click on the Adblock icon in the browser interface.
Select the menu item “Cancel my blocking on this site.”

Ready! This cunning method will allow you to hide dialogues on VKontakte from those people who also have access to your PC.

There is an article about the invisible program for VK on our website.

Opening the first message in a correspondence on VK on mobile

On a mobile gadget (smartphone, tablet), you can also quickly go to the first message in the correspondence of interest on Vkontakte. Let's consider several ways:

The first step is to open the VK website in any Internet browser you have on your device. By default, the VK site will open, which is intended for mobile; you will need to switch to the full version. How to do this is described in detail in the article “Full version of VK on the phone - methods of opening and using.” Having switched, carry out the actions described in the method by entering the necessary command into the address bar of the browser in order to quickly see the first and subsequent messages in a particular VK correspondence that interests you.
You can also resort to installing and using a popular mobile client for working with social media. VK network, whose name is “Kate Mobile”. This application boasts a large number of different functions and capabilities that are completely absent in the official client. Among all the variety, there is also the ability to quickly go to the first message in a particular chat (correspondence) on VK.

How to restore a hidden chat in Viber

Complete instructions on how to restore a hidden chat in Viber in detail and step by step. We'll figure out how to get a chat back from being hidden and tell you what to do if your PIN is lost!

One day, Viber developers came up with a great idea: add a function to the application that allows you to make individual dialogs invisible. Agree, this is very convenient when there are no serious reasons to hide or password-protect your smartphone (or it’s not convenient), but you don’t want some conversations to come into view of those who poke their nose into it. The idea was executed, and very successfully. You can hide correspondence in just a few movements. Returning it to normal mode is also not difficult. This is what we will talk about.

What is meant by hidden messages in VK?

The thing is that on the VKontakte social network there is no button that allows you to hide the desired dialogue or a specific DM in one click. If you do not use third-party services and programs, you can only remove them. And this is done irrevocably. That is why the issue of concealment has not lost its relevance for a long time.

The methods I described below are also not ideal. They have one feature. Messages hidden using them disappear only from the device on which the procedure was carried out.

That is, let's say you hid messages with your friend on your PC. They seemed to have disappeared. But if you log in to another browser or on another device, the hidden dialog will be visible.

Unfortunately, today there is no way to hide messages on all devices. And this is due to the fact that in social media itself. The network does not have this function, which means it will not be possible to make changes to the server.

How to bring back quickly hidden dialogue in the new Kate Mobye program?

In order to solve the problem that was identified at the very beginning of this article and in this subtitle, a person needs to carry out a procedure that is not particularly complicated. So, in order to understand once and for all how to return a hidden dialogue in Kate Mobile in a matter of seconds, the user will need to do the following:

Open the main screen in the client; Open Home Screen
Click on search;
In the special field that appears, where each user enters search queries, write exactly the pin code that was previously invented. Click search

At this point, the entire procedure is considered complete. As you can see, it does not represent anything complicated. Even a beginner who has just installed the client on his smartphone or some other modern and suitable device can do it.

After all the operations described in this article, any user will never again be interested in how to view hidden dialogs on his phone that he made invisible by accident or on purpose. It is enough for him to follow the short instructions described above once, after which he will remember the procedure for a long time.

In the latest updates of our favorite client for “in contact” Kate Mobile, an interesting feature has appeared - hidden dialogues . Today we will tell you how to hide dialogs from prying eyes, how to open them back and how to change the PIN code. To be one hundred percent sure that it works, we recommend updating the application from the Play Market, or even better, on the official website of the developers Go to the site. It’s better to download on the official website, because... There may be a problem with audio recordings, as we wrote about in our previous article about this application: Playing this audio is not possible due to the requirements of the copyright holder Kate Mobile. The current version of the application at the time of writing is 39.1 – download and install. Now about today's topic.

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Is reading other people's messages punishable?

It’s worth warning you right away that there are no official methods to read another person’s messages. All that is described below are tricks and tricks. If they do not help you, then you will have to resort to the services of hacking specialists to read other people’s correspondence without programs.

You can also find many proposals on this topic on the Internet. In most cases, people are offered programs that disguise viruses and other malware. Sometimes such software asks you to pay a certain amount in exchange for access to someone else’s correspondence. In any case, you absolutely cannot trust such sources. Then how to get other people's dialogues from a social network or instant messenger? Let's figure it out.