How to clear notifications in VK on your phone and delete everything in the browser

Today we will tell you how to clear notifications in your VK profile on your computer and in the mobile application. We are talking about the notifications section, which can be easily accessed by clicking on the bell at the top of the page window. By the way, when new system messages appear, a red dot lights up on the bell, and if you have sound signals turned on, a corresponding sound is heard. Some also have SMS notifications enabled, as well as email alerts.

Can you imagine how much information is accumulated on your devices? This is why many users dream of clearing this section. We have good news for you - it’s easy to remove viewed notifications on VKontakte. In addition, they are not accumulated and are saved only within one window.

Features of reading messages in VK

As you know, the VK messaging system allows you to track whether your message has been read by the user. An unread message is usually marked with a bluish background, while a read message has a white background.

It is impossible to make a message unread in VK after viewing it using standard means. The function that previously existed in VK, allowing you to mark a message as “unread”, was removed by the VKontakte administration during the next update of the network’s functionality.

However, there are ways to view a received message without changing its status to read. We will be able to find out what is written in a given message, and at the same time it will remain marked with a blue background for its sender.

Let's figure out how to read a message on VK and leave it unread 2021.

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How to clear notifications in phone settings?

You can completely remove message notifications in VK on your smartphone by disabling this activity in the operating system settings.

On Android you need to go to “Settings” - “Applications” - “All” - “VK”. Now go to the “Notifications” block and simply turn off the very first switch.

In IOS, everything is approximately the same: open “Settings”, go to the list of applications, select VK among them, go to “Notifications” and disable their activation.

Finally, we would like to talk about the appropriateness of these actions. Do you really need to clear your notification block? Disabling completely is not always convenient. This way you won’t know about new incoming messages, friends’ actions, calls, or interesting events. If you run a business on VK, and especially a trading one, on the contrary, make sure that your alerts include everything possible. It’s so easy to miss a potential client or not respond to an important event in time.

Often people try to clear the non-disappearing message about a new incoming message. This kind of lag does happen, and to solve it, try logging out/logging out of the page or reinstalling the utility. Or, if possible, the conversation should be cleared completely.

Well, we told you how to delete viewed notifications in Contact from your phone and computer, we hope that now you can easily clear this section. By the way, these messages are not stored on the memory card of your phone or computer (except for those received in the form of SMS), and therefore do not take up space. So maybe we should relax and leave them alone? Enjoy your time on your favorite social network!

Use your browser's functionality

Using the capabilities of the browser to read messages on VK is very effective. Do the following:

Launch your VK, go to the “Messages” section, but do not click on an unread message;
In the search bar (at the very top) enter the user's first and last name. All his and your messages will be displayed below, including those unread by you;
Check out their contents.

If one of these unread messages is large and you cannot read it completely, then do the following:

Re-display the list of messages with user data as described above;
Hover your mouse cursor over such an unread message and click with the RIGHT mouse button (not the left, but the right);
In the menu that appears, select “View code” (Chrome browser), “Inspect element” (Mozilla) or another appropriate option from your browser developer at the very bottom;
In the HTML code window that opens, you will see the full version of the specified text content and will be able to read it. However, it will not have the read status;

View the html code of the desired message and find the required text there
Close the developer window and leave VK.

How to remove notifications through profile settings

Let's look at how to delete notifications in Contact and how to disable this feature.

To begin with, instructions for the computer:

Click the bell and click the “Settings” button in the upper right corner;

Or click on the small avatar at the top right and select “Settings”, and inside go to “Notifications”;

Disable all sliders in the first block;
To remove VK notifications in Yandex Browser (or any other), make sure that the “Disable” option is selected in the “Browser messages” line. We also recommend clearing the cache on your phone and in the bootloader to get rid of accumulated garbage;

If you are looking for information on how to remove VK notifications that come by email, scroll this section to the very bottom. The last block is dedicated to linking/unlinking an email account. Above, by the way, is a similar section dedicated to SMS notifications.

Also in this section you can disable notifications for selected actions and events. Go to the points of interest and select the appropriate commands.

Next, we’ll tell you how to delete notifications in VK on your phone or in the mobile application:

Go to the utility;
Tap on the far right icon at the bottom to go from News to the main profile page;
Next, click on the three horizontal stripes at the top right;
Tap on the gear and go to the “Alerts” section;

Move the Push Notifications slider to the “Off” position;

Scroll to the end of the page and in the “Other” section also disable the “Show” command.

Ready. Now you no longer have to think about how to clear the notifications section, because it will always be empty.

Please note that you cannot remove notifications from VK from your mobile phone that are sent to your phone via SMS or email.

Use the Kate Mobile app

The functionality of the “Kate Mobile” application allows you to view received messages in stealth mode, leaving them with an unread status. Do the following:

Install Kate Mobile on your gadget - katemobile.org;
Log in to this application and go to its settings;
Select the “Online” section, and in it check the “Close unread” option;

Activate the “Close Unread” option
Now your messages will remain in unread status even after you view them.

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VK notifications do not arrive on my phone

Currently, the VKontakte social network is used by a huge number of users, more than half of whom access through the official mobile application. However, here, as on the website, the internal notification system may not work correctly due to certain malfunctions. We described this option in more detail in a separate instruction for Android, but in iOS the solutions are almost the same.

Read more: Troubleshooting problems with receiving VK notifications on Android

Open messages for the current date

This method is currently of questionable effectiveness, but we are also including it in our review.

In this link:

vk.com/im?q=day:23012019

Instead of 23012019, enter the day, month and year of sending the messages you want to read. For example, if you want to read a post dated January 24, 2021, then your link should look like

vk.com/im?q=day:24012019

Copy this link into the address bar of your browser and press enter. All messages for the specified date should be displayed in full.

Enable email notifications on VK

The VKontakte functionality allows you to receive notifications about the receipt of new messages in VK. This notification usually contains the text of the received message, which allows you to read its contents. In this case, this message in VK will remain in unread status.

To make a message unread in VK, do the following:

Go to your VK page;
Click on your avatar at the top right and select “Settings” in the menu that appears;
In the settings menu that opens on the right, select the “Alerts” tab;
Scroll to the bottom of the page, find the “Email Alerts” subsection;
Here, set the “Notification frequency” option to “Always notify”. Also make sure there is a checkmark next to the “Private messages” option.

Now, when you receive new messages, you will receive notifications about them by e-mail, where you can familiarize yourself with their contents.

How to read unread messages on VK

Go to the left menu in “Messages”. Then on the right, go to the “Unread” tab.

Even if you have thousands of dialogues, only those in which you have not read the text will be displayed here.

VK confirmation code does not arrive

Another problem, no longer dependent on any specific version of the site, is the lack of an action confirmation code sent to the phone number. In this case, there are much fewer solutions than were discussed earlier, but they exist and can help.

Read more: Troubleshooting problems with receiving a VK verification code

The recommendations presented in this article should be sufficient to troubleshoot notification problems, as we tried to cover all possible cases. To ensure that problems are resolved, carefully monitor your account settings and check for glitches, including comments.

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