How to find out who viewed posts, photos, walls in VK

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VKontakte is a very popular social network used by millions of people around the world. Each user has his own page on which he uploads his photographs, videos, and posts entries on the page. Some users are chasing popularity, while others, on the contrary, hide the page and limit access. But there are also people who want to find out who viewed their photos on VK. Many methods have been created for this, both by the service itself and by third-party developers. Each of them has both similar sides and differences. Therefore, today we will talk about how to see who viewed a photo on VK.

Is it possible to find out on VKontakte who viewed my photos?

On most social networks, it is impossible to see who has scrolled through your photos unless they have left comments, likes, or other marks under it. The social network VK maintains its own internal policy regarding the personal information of each user.

The following factors are taken into account:

Network owners do not want to allocate additional equipment for storing and processing such information. To track and work with such data, additional software algorithms are required, which also cost additional money;
This applies not only to the expenses of VKontakte owners. Users themselves do not need such information. And many of them do not want visits, page views, and actions on the pages of other users to be somehow recorded and made available to other users. Everyone understands perfectly well that these innovations will cause a decline in activity on the site. After all, no one wants to be noticed on the page of their (their) ex, right?

Thus, there are no “standard” functions for displaying users who have seen your photos on VKontakte. This option is not even available in Odnoklassniki, although here you can see visitors to your profile. But there are several ways to find out this and other information, which will be described below.

Ways to find out the user who viewed your photos

In order to still determine who viewed our photos on VK, you can use the following recommendations:

Look through the pages with your photos, perhaps visitors left comments under them or liked them. If there are such differences under your image, this means that you can determine who left them. To do this, you just need to hover the cursor over the like area and its owner will appear;
If the photo was added to the VK wall, then you can easily determine who made the “repost”. It becomes clear that this visitor was on your page and looked at this particular image;
There is another way - applications. They will help you find out not only who viewed the page, but also other additional information about the guests.

An application for tracking the actions of guests of your page on VK

To see those who came to visit you, you need to go to the page of the special application on VKontakte “My Guests” at the link https://vk.com/moigostiofficial. Several links will be offered here for a mobile device, as well as for a personal computer. Select the required link and go to the page. If you logged in from a PC, close the offered gifts and the game, which act as advertising. After this, you will find yourself on the application page.

If you need the application as a definition of visiting guests, then simply save this page in your bookmarks (CTRL + D). There are a few more suggestions and additional features on this page, such as “Enable Scanner.” This feature allows you to immediately get information about visits to your profile. If this is your first time using this application from your page, you can activate your PRO account for a period of 2 weeks. To do this, you just need to become a member of the group of this application.

Through the application, you will not be able to see who viewed your photos on the VK social network. But you can find out all the information about who logged in, what time, how long ago they logged in, the list of users you blocked, and much more.

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How to find out who watched the recording?

Now let's talk about applications and online services, with the help of which, supposedly, you can see on VK who viewed my post.

Most often, the network recommends using the “My Guests” application for this purpose, which can be easily installed through the “Games” section. We checked this application and did not find a function there that would actually help you find out who exactly saw the post on VK.

The Vaxter VK program is also often advertised - there is both a free version and a paid one, for which you need to send an SMS to receive an activation code. We took the risk of testing the utility.

We sent an SMS, for which 270 rubles were immediately debited from the account. We didn't wait for the code;
Tried to install the free demo version. As a result, our antivirus, Avast Free Antivirus, started complaining about it. We canceled the installation, but a suspicious folder had already appeared on the computer’s desktop, which did not want to be deleted. I had to run a comprehensive scan, which, as expected, showed the presence of a Trojan. We hope we caught it in time and removed it completely. So far everything is working well.
We didn’t take any further risks and abandoned the idea.

Photo display in the “My Guests” application

In the “My Guests” application there is a special section where you can become a participant in the exchange of likes for internal currency - coins. These coins can be purchased for votes - the internal currency of VKontakte. The cost of 2 thousand coins is worth 10 votes. Once you acquire the required coins, you will be able to “like” photos of other members. Each like like this costs 2 coins. When you collect the required number of coins, you can select your photo so that participants can like your image.

Every day you can view and rate up to 100 photos. To see how many likes your photo has earned, select the “My Shows” section in the photo show.

The My Guests app also has a promotion page where you can attract new guests to your profile. The service is not free. Its initial cost is 5 votes. When you order the service, up to 1.5 thousand new guests will appear on your page. The application has a “Fans” section, which displays the most active guests of your page. It is presented in the form of a pedestal. Here you can determine the most active for a week, month or all time. Here you can also see a list of their actions over a certain period - likes, reposts, actions on the wall, comments, replies, etc.

The application also offers you more options if you provide your personal account information. After this, you will not need to visit the application page every time to get information about your guests. A link will appear on the page and you can quickly get to the page with such data every time. In the “My Guests” group on VKontakte you can get answers to all your questions. To do this, open the “Answers to Frequently Asked Questions” tab.

Third party services

Third-party services refer to various applications. As a rule, they promise expanded capabilities in VK, both to see who viewed the photo and others.

my guests

The “My Guests” application is most common among those who want to find out who visited the page and looked at the photo. You can install it using the computer version of VK. For this:

Log in to VK.
In the menu on the right, click "Games".
Under the block with your games and your friends’ games you will see gray inscriptions where you need to click “More”.
Click "Applications" in the drop-down menu.
Next, you can find the application manually or enter “My Guests” in the search bar.
Now click on the application avatar and click “Install”.

This application shows statistics about your friends, as well as the dates when you added or removed someone. The use of some functions requires material investments, namely “votes”. It can also be used for communication, dating and flirting.

As for the reliability of data about visitors to your page, everything is in question. The site administration assures that such a function as seeing who viewed a photo on VK does not exist. After reading reviews of similar applications, you can see for yourself. However, whether or not you trust the data of this particular application is up to you.

Number of views of posts on VK

The owners of the social network VKontakte have introduced a mechanism for recording the viewing of a post on a user’s wall. Previously, the popularity of a post could only be determined by the number of likes or the number of clicks on the “Share” button. This calculation works for all versions, both for the web page and for the mobile application.

This way, users have the opportunity to determine their interest in the topics of various posts. The number of people who viewed the VK post is on the right under the post. Views are added to the total even if the user did not perform additional actions (clicked on the post, liked or reposted). Views can be counted on the wall of the user who created it, as well as on the page of those who shared it.

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How to see photos on VK that I liked

You can see the images you liked and left a like on it. For this:

Open your settings on the VKontakte page;

In the menu, click on the “Settings” page
Click the “Customize the display of my menu items” button;
Find “Bookmarks” in the list of disabled items and activate it with the checkbox on the right, click the “Save” button.
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Now you only need to open the main page of VKontakte, find the “Bookmarks” item on the left under the main menu and click on it. After that, on a special page you will be able to view the history of who you liked and whose posts you shared with your friends. It is quite possible that soon the owners of the social network will make it possible to see on VK who exactly viewed your profile photo.

Systemic methods

Officially, you can view on VK who viewed a photo, but only if this someone left “traces” of their presence on your page. What are these “traces” and how to look at them, read below.

View likes

If the number of hearts under your photo increases, it means people see it and like it. The number of likes is a great way to see who saw your photos on VK.

From a smartphone

To find out who rated, and therefore looked at, your photos on VK using a mobile application, do this:

Sign in to your account.
Find a photo that you're interested in viewing. Below it on the left you see a heart with the number of likes.

Click on the photo to expand it to full screen.
Now tap on the comments icon.
A list of names of people who rated the image will appear below the photo.

If you want to see all the users in this list, simply touch the display on the name line.

Please note that this method is not suitable for those who participated in Liketime. Since the data will in fact be twisted.

From computer

For PC, the sequence of actions will be as follows:

Log in to your profile.
Find the photo you need.
Below it on the left you will also see the number of likes.
Hover over the heart and a box will appear showing the five people who most recently liked the image.
To view the list in full, move the cursor to the inscription “People liked it” in this window and click on it. Instead of an ellipsis, the number of connoisseurs of your photo will be indicated.
After this, in a separate window you will be able to find out the names of everyone who viewed this photo on VK.

View comments

Comments are another function thanks to which you can calculate the guests of your page. It is logical that if a person commented on a post or photo, it means he looked at it.

From a smartphone

If you asked the question “How can I see who has looked at my photos using comments on VK?”, then here is the answer:

Go to the VK application.
Find the photo and click on it. The photo will unfold.
Now click on the comments icon located in the center under the photo and find out who expressed their opinion.

If the photo is on your wall, you don’t have to open it full screen. Simply scroll to the image and click on the comments icon to see a list of them.

From computer

We proceed as follows:

Log in to your account.
Open a photo in your album or scroll through your feed to find it.
The number of users who left their opinion is already shown next to the comment icon.
To see everyone by name, click on this icon and read the comments.

View reposts

Reposts are a special feature. They will not only answer the question of how to find out who viewed a photo on VK, but will also show how interesting your posts are to other users. After all, if someone reposted your photo on their page, then it’s worth a lot. This means the person wants to see her all the time.

From a smartphone

So, to see who reposted your photo, when using the mobile application you need to:

Log in to VK.
Open a photo or find it in your feed.
Below, under it, you will see an arrow indicating the number of reposts.
The number next to this arrow indicates the number of people who saw and shared the post. Unfortunately, it is impossible to see the names of these people. But you can do this using the full version of VK.

By the way, this is far from the only way you can see who reposted a post. There are many more: semi-legal and completely official.

From computer

So, to see the number of reposts and the names of the people who made them, you need to:

Go to your page.
Find the photo you need.
Hover your cursor over the arrow below it.
In the pop-up window, click on the inscription “Shared by ... people,” where the ellipses indicate their number.

If you reposted a photo from a community or from someone else’s page, then there is one feature. The number of likes and comments shown on your feed are your guests. The likes and comments that you see when you expand a photo to full screen are views in the source.

As for other people's photographs, all of the above instructions apply to them as well. You can view likes, comments and reposts, if this option is not limited by privacy settings. It will not be possible to see who was on the page and saw the photo, but did not give themselves away.