The article is constantly updated as new ways to return the old VKontakte design are released.
Attention!
Since 100% of users have updated the design, now there is only one working method left to regain the old VKontakte design, this is Method No. 5, so use it.
As soon as more methods appear that will help return the old VK, I will immediately update the article. For now, be content with what you have, enjoy reading the article!
The beta test of the new VKontakte design began a long time ago, I even wrote several reviews on the new VKontakte design 2021, highlighting all the pros and cons of the new style of the social network. But today VKontakte began to massively change the design for all users, and not just those who subscribed to the new style on the VKontakte blog.
I found out this completely by accident, and it happened like this: all the beta testers, including me, had a button in the new design “ Return to the old VKontakte design ,” by clicking on which you could go to the old design.
In the old design there was a button that could return you to the new style and set it as the main one. This afternoon, for some reason, I don’t remember what, I decided to switch to the old design, clicked the button and I was transferred to the new design style, and the button disappeared. That’s how I found out that VKontakte has already changed 10% of its users from its old design to a new one; at the time of writing this article there were probably more.
By the way, at the time of editing the article, the design is already enabled for all 100% of users, that is, VKontakte is completely switching to a new design, and in any case VKontakte will not return the old design, all that remains is to use these scripts and browser extensions!
Changing the design to a new one was not to the liking of many users, as I said, changing the design is a rather important step for VKontakte management, many users cannot work in the new design, relying on the fact that they are already accustomed to the old one, and the new design looks like the failed design of his classmates and they want the old one back. I don’t know what they don’t like, but for me, the new design is more convenient and more modern.
There has even been a petition on the Internet that is collecting signatures from those who want VKontakte to add the ability for users to choose between old and new designs . You can sign the petition at the following link: Social network VKontakte. Possibility to use old design.
The petition was sent to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and already has 11,660 signatures out of 15,000 needed to send this letter, I think soon it will exceed these 15k signatures and the VKontakte administration will consider introducing a choice of design for the social network, and you can only switch to the old VKontakte design using the method , which I will describe below, the method is completely working and is not fake.
Once approved, the petition will be delivered to the Mail Group administration.
Personally, I did not sign this petition, because I like the new design that was installed on VKontakte and fully satisfies my needs, like the design of a popular social network.
How to find your old page
We will help you find your old VK page.
Let's say you accidentally registered on VKontakte again, that is, you created a new page. And now you can’t find the old page where all your friends were. You just confused the concepts of login and registration.
Login is when you enter your username and password and get to your existing page. And registration means creating a new page. What to do in this case? You need to exit the new page you are currently on and go to the old one.
What do you need to register?
In order to become a user of the social network, you only need a phone number. Previously, this could only be done through email, but due to the fact that fewer and fewer people are using email lately, the administration decided to limit itself to telephone only.
What to do if you don’t have a mobile phone? It doesn’t matter, you can register, but all these are workarounds. If you are really determined to become a full-fledged user and use all the network resources, you will need a SIM card.
However, you can still create an account without a phone number. You will need a service that provides a phone number where you can receive SMS. There are several such services, the most popular of which are the following:
● onlinesim.ru - there are both paid and free numbers. The service is proven, has been working for a long time, it is regularly used by those who need to register on sites that require confirmation via SMS;
● smska.net - works both day and night, provides numbers for both one-time use and permanent ones. For just one ruble you can get a room to rent for 20 minutes. This is quite enough to receive SMS.
The disadvantages of such services, of course, are that they are paid. Moreover, if you log into your account from other equipment (for example, at home - a laptop, in transport - a smartphone), you will need to accept the SMS and confirm that it is you and not the hacker. Where will you receive people without a phone?
Yes, you can rent a room for a long period of time, but is it worth it? After all, it’s much easier to purchase a separate SIM card if for some reason you don’t want to use your main one. In general, I would not complicate this issue and use my main phone number. There is no catch in this!
How to access the old VKontakte page
If you know the phone number (or email address) to which the old page was registered, and also know the password, then you can always log in to it. Just enter your phone number (or email) as your login when you log in, and also enter your password. The most convenient way to log in is to use the start page. Login is reliable and safe. Having opened the Vhod.ru website, click the “Login” button under the “VKontakte” heading. You will not only log into your old page, but also get additional convenient features.
What should I do if I can’t find the old page and don’t remember the data?
If you do not remember any of the data to which the old page was registered, you will have to submit a request to the access restoration service. But first you need to at least find the VKontakte page itself so that they understand which page you want to restore access to. To find your old page by last name, first name and city, you can use our VKontakte person search:
or searching for people all over the Internet:
When you find it, you need to open the page and find out the link to it - for example, https://vk.com/id12345678 . People with whom you corresponded through your old page can also help you. Let someone find messages from you and open your old page via a link by clicking on your name. In the address bar of the browser there will be a link to your page.
Way to return the old VKontakte design No. 4
Today I found another way to return the old design to us, well, almost like the old one, since it still contains echoes of the new VKonakte 2021 design.
There is such a wonderful site called userstyles.org, which has a lot of different styles for VKontakte, so, I was rummaging around there today and found a redesign of the VKontakte design for the old VK. This is what he looks like.
As you can see, it reminds us of both the old design and the new one, two in one. But this version is still crude and contains many errors, but if you are so impatient to get rid of the innovation of the VKontakte developers, then feel free to enable this style, and this is how you can do it.
- Download the extension for Google Chrome, for Mozila Firefox, for Opera, for Safari.
- Follow the link https://userstyles.org/styles/128986/theme
- After, install the script this site, this is done by pressing this blue button
- Then, click “Add” in the confirmation window
- And after successfully installing our script with which we will set the style of the old VKontakte, we can complete the procedure by updating. After installing the plugin, a green button will appear in place of the blue button, just click it.
- Now we can update our VK and enjoy the old design, like mine.
Attention, the script is still under development, so it will be updated and improved!
How to access the old page without leaving the new one
You can use Incognito mode in your browser if you only need the old page occasionally. For example, if you have Chrome, open the browser menu and select “New window in incognito mode.” A window will open in which you seem to have not yet entered any page. Enter the address vhod.ru and use the “Login” button to enter the old page.
You can also install two different browsers - for example, Chrome and Firefox - and in one of them sit on one page, and in the other on another. This is more convenient if you want to constantly use different pages.
I don’t have a linked phone, how to restore VK
The usual situation is that the phone number on which you registered the old VKontakte page has long been changed to a new one. Most likely, several phones have already changed since that time. But suddenly I wanted to return the profile. For those who hope to gain access to someone else’s page in this way, this method will not be useful.
- Open the main page of VKontakte and click the link in the form Forgot your password?
- Select link Click here at the bottom of the next page if you do not have a phone number, login, or password.
- In order for the site to understand which account you want to access, it needs to provide a link to your profile.
Open the account you want to restore in another browser tab and copy the identifier (page ID).
Page ID - Return to the form and paste the ID into the line to continue the recovery.
- If VK has identified the page correctly, enter the alternative phone number that you have now (it doesn’t matter whether the VK page is linked to it or not) click the button below Further.
Entering an available phone number - Now the most important thing is that the next page is the key to unlocking your account. You need to take a photo in front of her. Take a high-quality photo so that your face and this page are clearly visible in the photo.
You need to take a photo in front of the page - The resulting image must be uploaded to the VK website on the same page. To do this, use the Upload photo at the bottom of the form.
- After uploading the file, the form will ask for a scan of the first page of the passport to ensure that this is your page. You will need to take a photograph of the document, which clearly shows your name, surname and photograph.
- Write a comment, for example, “lost my phone in August 2018,” etc.
- Then you need to confirm the phone number that you indicated in the form. A reset call will be made to it. If it doesn't happen, click the link below Send code via SMS.
When the phone number is confirmed, you will see a page informing you that the application has been accepted for consideration. The answer will come via SMS message. Bookmark this page. You will still need it.
This instruction is suitable for people who have absolutely no data from the old page.
The page can be restored using this method if the passport data matches the first and last name on the page. The process will go faster if the forgotten profile has your photo as an avatar.
Interesting for you: How to make VK black.
If the old page was linked to the same number
Important: if you registered a new VK page on the same phone number as the old one, then now the old page is no longer linked to this number. You may think that now both pages are on the same number, but this is not so. Only one page can be linked to one number, and the number was unlinked from the old page when you created a new one. You just didn’t pay attention to what the site was telling you.
What to do in this case? There are several ways to solve the problem, see here: What to do if you created two pages for one VKontakte number. Each person is allowed to create only one page on VK, and if you lose access, you need to restore it, and not create a new page (and at the same time new problems).
And my old page and new one are tied to the same phone number!
There is a difference between login and linking a phone. Two pages can be registered to the same number (that is, have the same login), but both cannot be linked to the same number. When you linked a new page to your phone, the old one immediately unlinked from it. Like this! Now you won’t be able to restore access to it by phone, and you’ll have to use other methods. More details here: What to do if you created two pages for one VKontakte number.
(See method 4!)
Under this method there are 2, more effective ways, read below!
Right after the new VKontakte design appeared, a website appeared that posted a link with which you can switch to the old VKontakte design, despite the fact that VKontakte disabled this function.
In order to return, or rather use the old VKontakte design, simply follow the link that I wrote below.
<—— Let's switch to the old VK design based on it!
Attention!
To switch to the old design, a new link is available, after clicking on which you will not see the new design at all, even if you refresh the page with the new design open. I found this link purely by accident, I don’t know who the author is, but it’s a good idea. A notification appeared on the open page that you are going to update the page on VK, but even after doing this, the old design will remain in place, it will not go anywhere.
So, here is a link to the old design (click on me!) After clicking on it, you definitely won’t see the new design of your favorite social network that is ugly for you, so I advise you to bookmark it so as not to lose it or simply move from my site , which is not very convenient.
By clicking on the link, your favorite VKontakte will open in front of you with the old design familiar to you. But, after you close the tab and open it again, the new design will flaunt in front of you, so it’s better to add the link to your bookmarks and go to your favorite social network only through it, then you will always be on the old VKontakte design on your computer. This will be much more convenient.
How to make logging into VK easier
The easiest way to enter the VKontakte website and other social networks is the “Login” start page. Here she is:
In April 2021, the social network Vkontakte received a new design and design. In the test version of the new VKontakte design, each user himself could turn on the new version, check it, and if he was not satisfied with it, then switch back to the old version of VK. But let’s consider whether it’s possible to return to the old version of VK now.
Did the new version turn on by itself?
Since June 9, some VK users (approximately 10 percent) received the new version forcibly, that is, it turned on itself, and they can no longer return to the old one. If this happened to you, then most likely you are one of these users. What to do? You can’t do anything, you can only get used to it, because a person gets used to everything. Try to take this calmly. Some time will pass, and the old version will already seem inconvenient to you. And in any case, the developers of the VK site would not be able to save the old version for you for a long time.
Reportedly, this is the beginning of a mass transfer of all VK users to the new version. Here is the official news about it. Those who did not fall into the mentioned 10% will still be able to switch to the new version and back to the old one for some time, but then everyone will only have the new version.
New version of VKontakte on your phone
The new version refers to the full version of the site that people use on computers and tablets. This does not apply to the VK application for phones, which is developed and updated separately (see: How to log into VK from a phone).
Not everyone likes the new version of VKontakte. Many people demand to return the previous version, which they consider more convenient. Some argue that the new design is too similar to Facebook and even Odnoklassniki. Users even created an online petition demanding that the old version be preserved and given the “right to choose.” Most likely, this will not affect anything. Online petitions are often created for various reasons and thanks to them, information is disseminated very widely. But in reality, the petition has never helped anyone. When the noise subsides, everyone forgets about her.
How to log into VKontakte from iPhone/iPad
iOS also has built-in VPN setup tools, so if you have access to a server, you can quickly add a private network to your iPhone or iPad.
- Open the main settings and go to the “VPN” section. Click Add Configuration.
- Select PPTP or L2TP protocol.
- Enter a description - the name of the network with a small letter.
- Specify the connection server.
- Add your username to the Account section.
- Disable RSA SecurID.
- Enter your account password.
- Turn off the proxy.
After adding a connection, a VPN toggle switch will appear in the settings. When the option is activated, the connection to the Internet will be made through the server specified in the settings, and the blocking will no longer interfere with accessing the social network through a browser or application.
iOS also has apps for working with VPNs, such as Browsec. Management is extremely simple: launch the program, select the country and forget about the blocking. You can redirect traffic to a foreign server using the VPN Proxy Master application. Available regions are displayed in the side menu along with ping data. Choose the fastest server and access any sites.
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VK applications
If the mobile or Web version of VKontakte is not very suitable for you, and you would like to always be with your friends, then the VK mobile application is suitable for you. It doesn’t matter what kind of portable device you have, there is a software product for each operating system.
In order to install VK for a smartphone or tablet, we recommend visiting the official store of the developer of your OS. For Android this is PlayMarket, for iPhone - Apple Store.
The VK application is very convenient and does not require constantly opening the browser, because this usually leads to a loss of time. An application shortcut will appear on your screen, and when you click on it, your VK page will immediately open.
Many people will now think that to install the VK application you will need a modern, powerful smartphone that will cost tens of thousands of rubles, but no. Almost any one will do, even the most budget-friendly one.
VK my page - opportunities
After you log into your VKontakte page, all the functionality of the social network will become available to you:
- Read and send messages to other users
- Add other members as friends
- Join groups and communities of interest, as well as create your own
- Comment and like your favorite posts
- Listen to music and watch videos And much more. If you still have any questions, please ask them below in the comments.
