The VKontakte social network has been the most popular in Russia and the CIS for more than 10 years: more than 30 million people use VK per day, and in total more than 510 million accounts are registered. Accordingly, most active users have an extensive list of friends. VKontakte also allows you to hide a person from the list of visible friends.
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Why should users hide friends?
VKontakte is one of the most popular social networks, especially popular among young people. Previously, the pages of all users were absolutely viewable by unauthorized persons.
But over time, innovations began to be introduced that expanded people's capabilities. These include a function that allows you to hide some of your friends from viewing by other users.
There are many reasons why users hide their friends. First of all, we are talking about the need to maintain the security of personal data. Fraudsters can use any information for profit.
For example, some of them make a fake page of a person, and then write to his friends asking to borrow money. Unfortunately, many VK users fall for such a scam, transferring money in an unknown direction.
It is extremely difficult to find those to blame in such a situation. Fraudsters manage not only to profit from innocent people, but also to quarrel among themselves.
The question of how to hide all friends in VK often has personal motives. Some users simply do not want certain people to know that they are communicating with a particular person. Those who want to denigrate honor and dignity can slander a person in front of his relatives and friends.
Situations are different, so absolutely everyone has the right to privacy.
The social network's policy regarding user privacy has changed periodically. When the feature first appeared, it applied to the entire friends list. Then an update appeared, according to which you can hide no more than 15 friends.
Today the limit has been increased to 30 people. At the same time, it is assumed that a certain circle of people will still be able to view hidden friends. All restrictions can be changed in the “Settings” section.
The desired option can be selected either via a computer or via a telephone. And it doesn’t matter at all whether it’s an iPhone or an Android. The scheme of actions for both will be the same.
The main advantage of using the function is the ability to hide your personal life from other people. The disadvantages include the forced narrowing of your social circle. However, nothing limits a person from communicating with other users in groups.
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Save the changes and enjoy the results
If you did everything correctly, you will see how the tagged friends will move to hidden ones from the “All Friends” tab. But don’t rush to exit, because first you need to save the changes, because without this you will have to repeat everything all over again, and this is unpleasant, even though everything will take only a couple of minutes. But how do you understand that all those whom you have made invisible are really not visible? You can do this as follows. Go to the main page of your account. After this, we get to the “My Page” menu. Here you will see the entire list of your contacts. Opposite each of them will be written “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions.” You should see the inscription: “Everyone is visible except Ivan Ivanov,” etc. If everything is exactly like this, then the operations were done correctly. If you see the inscription “Visible to everyone,” then, obviously, you forgot to save the changes or select the people you were going to make invisible.
How to hide friends on VK
By default, the list of friends is visible to absolutely all users who have access to the page. If we are talking about a closed page, then only friends can see it. To hide friends on your VKontakte page, you don’t have to make any special efforts.
This process only takes a few minutes of free time. The way to block access to your friends list may vary. The simplest one involves closing the page completely.
In this case, none of the registered users will be able to view personal information until they are added as friends. Only your name and avatar will be visible to strangers.
To close the page completely, you need to do the following:
- You need to go to the “Settings” section, which is located on the right side of the page, directly under the avatar thumbnail.
- The next step is to click on “Privacy” and then select the profile type. It can be open or closed. The second option allows you to completely close the page from the eyes of strangers.
- After all the manipulations are completed, it is important to save the changes. Without this, they will not come into force.
There is another simple way to hide a friend from others. To do this, no matter how strange it may seem, you need to remove him from friends. To continue communicating with a person, you can find him through the VKontakte search engine.
In addition, his page will be visible in the section with friendship requests. In this case, the user will not know that he has been deleted until he specifically wants to check it.
On the computer
You can hide some of your friends through your computer using absolutely any browser. All you need for this is Internet access. The principle of action will be as follows:
- On the home page, under the photo thumbnail, there is a small arrow. If you click on it, a number of sections will appear, among which will be “Settings”.
- In the menu that opens, select the “Privacy” section.
- In the list of settings you need to find the item “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”. If you click on this section, a list of all friends will appear. Among them, you can select 30 that will not be visible to other users. All hidden friends will automatically move to the very top of the list.
- To confirm the changes, you must click the “Save” button.
The feature that makes friends invisible is temporary. It can be canceled at any time. To do this, you need to go back to “Settings” in the “Privacy” section and select the appropriate item.
A person who has been hidden by one of his friends will not know about it. He will not receive any notification of this fact. If he begins to find out this purposefully, then the truth will be revealed.
He can log into the profile from someone else’s account and scroll through the list of friends. If he does not find himself on this list, he will immediately understand that his presence was hidden. But whether he will do this is another question.
To check whether the function is connected properly, you need to re-enter the “Privacy” item located in the “Settings” section. There will be a block “See how other users see your page.”
By clicking on it, you can make sure that hidden friends are not visible on the page. You can also check by logging into your page from someone else’s account. There won't be any difference.
In the mobile version of the application
You can hide friends not only through a computer, but also through a phone. In this case, the procedure will be approximately the same. But you need to remember that the developers have removed this function from the mobile application. Even through an iPhone it is impossible to do this trick today.
You will have to log into your account through the desktop version in a mobile browser. Then all actions are performed step by step:
- You should open any search engine and type “VK” into it.
- Among the options that open, you need to select the mobile version of the social network, and then log in to it.
- In the upper right corner you need to click on the three dots and select the “PC Version” column.
- At the next stage, all actions will be exactly the same as in the case of a computer. The required item will be located in the “Privacy” section. After completing the necessary actions, it is very important to save them.
It is noteworthy that in a similar way you can hide not only friends, but also subscribers. The algorithm of actions will be approximately the same. All manipulations are performed in the “Privacy” section.
How to check the result
After a certain number of friends have been added to the hidden category, it is impossible to immediately understand what the account looks like through the eyes of another, stranger. But the developers have provided special functionality that will allow you to look at your own page through the eyes of a “guest” account. The instructions are as follows:
- Go to “Settings” in any convenient way.
- Go to your privacy settings via the Privacy tab.
- Scroll to the end of the list.
- At the bottom, at the very end, there should be the inscription “You can see how other users see your page.”
- The text is formatted as a hyperlink. Click on it.
- You will be redirected to the profile page, but now at the top, under the “search” column, there will be a notification “This is how an unfamiliar user sees your page.”
- At the top right of the screen there is a “Return to Settings” tab.
- Click on it to go back.
- Now exit the settings and use the page as normal.
Visual illustration of actions:
A new way to hide friends
If the user needs to hide more than 30 friends, then difficulties may arise. After all, there are no official functions that satisfy the desires of such people. However, the new version of Vkontakte has an interesting alternative.
Now you can add people to your favorites. This feature allows you to track any profile changes.
The algorithm of actions will be as follows:
- Initially, you should go to “Settings” and go to the “General” section. In it, select the item “Customize the display of menu items”.
- A window will open containing a list of positions. Among them, you need to select “Bookmarks” by checking the box next to it. Then you should save the changes.
- The next step is to find a person to bookmark. To do this, you can use the VKontakte search engine.
- Having visited the page of the desired person, you need to select the “Actions” section under his photo.
- Among the proposed options, you must select “Add to bookmarks.”
As a result of these actions, the user will always be in a separate menu item. Already from bookmarks you can go directly to a person’s page and perform any actions. You can remove it from there in the same way.
For other users, its presence in bookmarks will go unnoticed. This option is considered a good replacement for hidden friends.
You can add a user to a separate tab in another way - by adding him to the blacklist. But in this case, he will not be able to visit your page and leave messages. The expediency of such an action is not always present.
How to hide friends from your phone
Many people work with their page using an application on their phone. It exists for both Android and IOs (Android operating system). People often ask how to hide friends on VK via phone, meaning: how to do this using this application.
I’ll disappoint you right away, you can’t hide friends from this client. But all smartphones, as a rule, have a pre-installed browser. If it is not there, then downloading it is also no problem. Moreover, there are even special adapted versions for phones that conveniently display information on a small screen and save traffic, for example, Opera Mini.
In order not to search for your page using a browser and enter it in a new way by entering your username and password, there is a way to open it directly from the client. To do this, we perform the following steps:
- Open the application and go to your page by touching the icon with three stripes at the bottom right.
- A page opens on which you need to select “Go to profile».
- We go to your profile page, on it select the icon with three dots in the upper right corner.
A filter will open that will offer you to copy the link or open it in a browser. Let's choose the latter. - Then the required page automatically opens in the browser.
In the browser we proceed in the same way as described above.
Is it possible to see a user's hidden friends?
Officially, the VKontakte website does not provide the ability to view hidden friends. But, if you are smart, it is quite possible to recognize them. There are several ways that work. They all require patience and diligence.
One of the simple options involves using third-party programs. They are available in large numbers on Android and iPhone phones.
But in this case, there is a possibility of running into scammers.
The fact is that such platforms require account login information - login and password. In addition, when using untested programs, there is a possibility that the result will be unreliable. It is almost impossible to insure yourself against unwanted consequences.
Another method involves a manual search. But in this case you will have to partially rely on intuition. First, you should monitor the suspect's page for likes and comments from users who are not on your friends list. They may well be among those who are hidden. But it is not possible to verify this.
If you want to find out whether there are specific people on the list of hidden friends, you can use one more trick. You need to find this person through a search engine. Next to it will be a list of mutual friends. Among them there may be a person who is hiding friendship with the person he is looking for.
How many friends can you hide?
Let's answer the question - how many friends can you hide on VK. The point is that there is a limitation. VKontakte administration is not interested in people hiding their friends, as this affects the ranking of not only the page, but the entire site as a whole. Previously there were only fifteen of them. Now the answer to the question of how to hide friends in a new VK does not imply that you can hide more than thirty people. Before the update, there was an option to hide more, but this no longer works. Therefore, you won’t be able to hide more than 30 friends.
Conclusion
How to hide friends from other users in VK is desirable for everyone. After all, no one is immune from situations in which the need for this function may arise.
If VKontakte’s capabilities to hide 30 people are not enough, you can simply close the page, thereby protecting your life from prying eyes. As a last resort, you can use the update, which involves adding the necessary users to bookmarks.
Sincerely, Veronika Vladimirova specially for the proudalenku.ru project
How to prevent your friends from knowing you hid them
If you want your friends not to know that you have hidden them, then you can do this:
- Open “ Settings ” again.
- Select " Privacy ".
- We look for the item “Who sees my hidden friends", opposite it will be written "Just me».
- Click on the inscription “Only me" and a list opens in which you need to select "Hidden Friends».
Now they will see themselves on your page. True, if they come in anonymously, they won’t see themselves. You can also select specific people or their lists for whom your hidden friends will be visible.
There is another interesting option - to hide friends only from certain people. In this case, select “ Everything except... ” in the filter and add the people we need. For example, you hid all your female friends from your “other half”, by entering her into this filter you will make sure that everyone except her can see them.
How to hide a friend from your Android phone
To be honest, I did not find the ability to hide friends in the VKontakte application for Android. I also doubt that such an option is available in the mobile version of the site.
However, don't despair. If you have a smartphone with a browser installed, it doesn’t matter whether you have an Android phone or an iPhone. We launch some browser on the phone and go to the site vk.com. The mobile version of the site immediately loads and you are redirected to m.vk.com.
At the very bottom we find a link to the “Full version”. Well, I wrote about how to hide friends in the full version of VKontakte in the previous paragraphs of this article.
Try to use this trick before the application developers come up with such a function for themselves.
And with this, I finish this article and hope that I helped you deal with this problem)
How to hide more than 30 friends on VKontakte - the script no longer works
It is possible that you have more than 30 friends and you need to hide them all; the case is rare, but it does happen. I want to say that officially there is no such function in VK, and there are no exceptions either. Since VK does not provide such an opportunity, let us do what is necessary ourselves. We will talk specifically about the mistakes of the developers themselves, which will help us get around the 30-friend limit. For now, this method still works, but soon the loophole may be closed, so follow this article, I will add current methods here.
I discovered the new method by accident, maybe someone knows about it, but still a lot of people come to the site who are interested in information on hiding more than 30 VKontakte friends. The method is incredibly simple and will take no more than 2 minutes of your time. Let's get started.
- To get started, go to your VK page and go to the “Friends” section.
- Then open the window using the hot keys Ctrl+Shift+I and select the Console . There we will write the code.
- Now copy the code, paste it into the browser field and press Enter.
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