How to hide photos of VKontakte from prying eyes?

Now most of the time we communicate through social networks. With the help of photographs, we talk about the weekdays and holidays of our lives or observe how the years affect our friends and acquaintances.

Very often we encounter an unpleasant problem: a huge number of users of the VKontakte website look at our photos and sometimes leave comments that we do not need. Almost every user is trying to come up with or find out what can be changed in this situation, how to hide VKontakte photos from unauthorized persons.

Solution

Depending on personal preferences, there are how many ways to hide VKontakte photos. For example, you cannot hide one image, in order to do this, you need to create a new album. You can move the photo you want to hide into it. Then you need to select the “edit” option in the album by clicking on the pencil in the upper right corner. Then you need to choose the category of those friends who will be able to view your photos or even leave open access only for themselves. You can hide those images in which one of your friends marked you. On your VKontakte page you need to select the “settings” tab, after which a window will pop up where you need to check the box “who sees the photos on which I was tagged”. Further, having screwed up this line, it is necessary to choose the appropriate value: “only me”, “only friends” or “all users”.

Site rules

In the privacy settings, the site administration has developed an automatic function that divides your friends into categories.

In these rules, there is an option that allows you to open or close access to the entire album of your account for a certain category of friends. In this case, viewing hidden photos on VKontakte will be completely impossible for them, since this section will not be visible on the page. How to do it? In the VKontakte service (in the lists of “categories of friends”) dividing users into friends, relatives, and colleagues, you need to select several groups for each of them. The options suggested by the site administration are: “no access”, “low access level”, “medium access level” and “high access level”. This is probably one of the most convenient ways to solve the question: “How can VKontakte hide photos of the whole album?”

Image from Avatar

The photo that is on your “avatar” (although in most cases there are several) is available for viewing by all users of the social network. So here the question of how to hide VKontakte photos is solved only in one way - to completely limit the access of an undesirable user to your site page. To do this, you need to add such a friend to the “black list”. This is also quite simple to do: on your settings page, click the “black list” tab and enter the account address of the person whose access you want to limit.

Interestingly, such a function as “hide saved VKontakte photos” does not exist. That is, this album cannot be edited for inaccessibility to viewing by other users.

You can try to close one saved photo to access other users. But if you have, say, 387 images in an album, then each of them will have to be edited manually. It is long and inconvenient, although if you really need it, then you will not get anywhere. In this case, the album will be displayed on your page, although the photos are hidden in it.

Hidden photos can be viewed

Some very curious users will be able, in principle, to find loopholes to familiarize themselves with your images.

For example, viewing hidden photos on VKontakte can be done in one of the simple ways. To do this, you need to go to the page of the user whose person you are interested in. Then open the album in which the photograph is located and, in it, for sure, there will be at least one not hidden image that needs to be opened. Next, you must enable the function located under this image: “accelerated photo viewing mode” and scroll through the arrows (left or right) to view them. What next? After that, you need to close all the photos - the picture you need will be visible in full access. Although, it is worth remembering that loopholes such as this are quickly detected and closed by the site administration. Any convenient way to view information that is not intended for you will be invalid after a week.

The rules are constantly changing

In connection with new developments, since 2013, the site has no such function as “hide photos of VKontakte on the wall”. If the image was displayed exactly on the wall, you will have to come to terms with the fact that it is being viewed, and I will comment on anyone who wishes. Or you need to remove it. If you decide to do this, then this will automatically entail the disappearance of all entries that were related to this photo. Now it’s better to store your VKontakte images only in albums. At least, there you can easily edit them and no longer worry that unknown persons are viewing them or leave unpleasant comments.