“If I’m online and don’t respond to chat, it means I’m just listening to music.” New parameters of the social network eliminate such misunderstandings.
The social network VKontakte is the most popular in Russia. It often happens that for some reason it is necessary to hide your online status. There is no invisibility function here; the developers assumed that since the network was created for communication, users should know whether your friends are on the site.
This is exactly the question we will deal with you today. There are a number of ways that will allow you to completely or with some restrictions leave your presence secret.
Why is it invisible in VK?
The invisible mode in VK is incredibly popular both among young people and among fairly mature and self-sufficient users of the social network. And this is due to various reasons. Some people spend most of their time online, chatting with friends. Some people listen to music for a long time, while others take part in flash games. Others read the news and watch videos.
Many users have already forgotten how to use other Internet resources, as they find everything they need on VK.
And it is quite natural that we do not want others to have even the slightest opportunity to monitor what we are doing. For example, we want to view other people's accounts without those people knowing about it.
I feel freer when I remain invisible on VK. And you?
Some perceive the Online icon as a treacherous signal that must be turned off.
Do you want to use VKontakte without anyone noticing? You may have your own good reasons for this. We won't find out why you need this. We'll explain exactly what to do and how to do it.
Interesting fact. Even VK developer Pavel Durov does not like the function of showing the time of the last visit and the Online inscription. After he left his post at the company, he asked for the inscription to be removed. But for some reason the team never took this advice into account.
How to remove the time spent visiting a VKontakte page from your computer
For those who want to get an “invisibility hat,” special extension programs for browsers have been invented that can be installed on computers or laptops. They can disable the social network's ability to track visits. With their help, you will be invisible to other users while on the site.
You can download the VKfox plugin on the developer’s website or in the application store of your installed browser. An important detail: when you like publications, photos of participants, post your own posts, write comments or visit user pages, the plugin stops working. It is intended only for using your VKontakte profile as a means of communication in personal correspondence.
Many modern browsers are made using the Chromium engine. All extensions from the Chrome browser plugin store are suitable for them. When using Google Chrome, Yandex Browser browsers, the VKfox plugin can be downloaded for free from the store. Installation instructions:
- Go to the Chrome Store website.
- In the search field, enter the name of the required plugin – Vkfox.
- Select the first option from the list. Click the Install button to add the application to your browser.
- In the panel area at the top, click on the plugin icon to find out more information.
When the extension is installed in your PC's browser, an icon will appear at the top. By clicking on it, provide access to your VKontakte account.
Now you can visit VKontakte without giving yourself away. You can be online and use some functions. To start a correspondence with a person, see some actions on your page, find out which of your friends is online, you need to click on the VKfox icon. You cannot go to the VKontakte website, then the plugin will not help hide the login time.
Standard method
The social network itself contains a bug that allows you to be offline while continuing to use the service.
The main advice is - never go to “My Page”! If you go to messages and stay there for 15 minutes, the offline status will appear automatically. By continuing to use the social network, but without going to the main page, you will remain invisible for as long as you like.
Finally a serious screen without cats
In this mode you can view news and listen to music.
In order not to disrupt the mode, do not respond to messages under any circumstances, do not go to the pages of other users and do not leave comments on any posts, because this will immediately turn on your online status.
This feature is due to the fact that your device's cache stores previously downloaded information about news and music. Therefore, the service makes it possible to view this content without accessing the system servers via the Internet.
We use VkLife
Today, no one can be surprised by virtual assistants, utilities and plugins that make life easier. If your VKontakte online status has become an annoying nuisance, then it’s time to get VkLife. Among other available functionality, there is an Offline button. As a result, you can do whatever you like while remaining invisible to other users.
How to get the add-on:
- The program should be downloaded and installed.
- A short login is required.
- All that remains is to press the treasured button, and the problem is solved.
Installing extensions
There have always been some problems with extensions. Some developers specifically release and distribute their products to steal user data. For a long time, any extension can work flawlessly and not cause any problems.
But sometimes it happens that having gained a certain number of loyal users, the developer begins to collect their authorization data for himself and sell it to scammers or use it himself for illegal earnings.
And here, instead of a cat, there is another animal. Bet you won't see him?
Therefore, we will give you a small list of extensions that have proven themselves so far, so that you know how to enable invisibility in VK via a computer. But we warn you that you do this at your own peril and risk, since we do not have the opportunity to check and make sure how decently their developers work.
- VKfox is an extension that allows you to continue to follow VKontakte news while remaining offline. The peculiarity of the solution is that you go online as soon as you comment on something or reply to a message.
- There are currently no other extensions available. We will monitor the situation and update this list (you can write to us in the comments to this article if you know of other solutions).
How to hide the last visit time on VKontakte
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Everyone may have their own reasons for hiding the time of their stay on VK. But one question remains - is it possible to hide the time of the last visit to VK? Many methods found on the Internet simply do not work. It took me a long time to check them.
So, here is a list of options on how to hide the time of your last visit to VKontakte and remain invisible to the whole world.
How to hide the time of last visit to VKontakte on a computer
Below we have collected all the ways to hide a visit to VKontakte on a computer.
Method 1 is not very useful.
The method is simple, but with some caveats. You need to go to any section of the site (photos, videos or music) and hang there for 20 minutes. Exactly after this time, the status will change to offline. This is very ineffective, because you still have to “expose yourself.”
Method 2 is not very useful.
This is also a method of questionable effectiveness, but that’s what it is. We just make a bookmark from VK music, for example, and close the main page. Let's move on to the bookmark. In this case, there is no need to wait 20 minutes. But the downside is that if you go anywhere from this bookmark, you will find yourself online again.
3.Method 3 - Browser extensions. Most effective
For major browsers on your computer there is a very useful extension - Vkfox. We install, activate and easily hide your online status from everyone.
For Google Chrome, the plugin is available in the official extension section, which guarantees 100% safety of its use.
4.Method 4- Dangerous! Computer program.
As for software, VKlife turned out to be a good option. If you don’t leave posts on the wall, you will be offline. But it’s still better to use official browser extensions.
How to hide the time of last visit to VKontakte on your phone
On Android phones
The simplest but most effective option is to download the Kate Mobile app. Its design is similar to the official application for VK, so it will be easy to navigate it. Go to settings, then “invisibility settings” and select “be offline”. And again, a caveat - do not post anything on your wall and do not like it. It is recommended to download only from the website - katemobile.ru
Hide visiting time in the official VK application on Android.
In this version, there is no need to install programs. We only need developer mode: in the settings, find “build number or version” at the bottom, and then click 7-10 times. And now many additional opportunities open up for you. We find the mobile version of VK, in the “about the program” settings section, click on “VK icon” 5-10 times. We go to the section where we dial someone’s number to call and enter *#*#856682583#*#* . And turn on invisibility.
How to hide visiting time on VK iPhone.
There were three programs that can be easily downloaded from the App store - Swist, Agent for VK and VFeed. VFeed turned out to be the most functional in practice.
To the question “is it possible to hide the time of the last visit to VK” we confidently answer - yes, it is possible. And it's quite easy to do.
If you know other easier ways to hide your presence on VK, write in the comments, we will definitely add to our article.
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How to hide VKontakte online using FireFox
For users of the FireFox browser, there is another way to make it invisible in VK.
- Type about:config in the address bar. This will open the browser's advanced options page.
- Enter the following words network.http.redirection-limit in the “Filter” field. Change the value to 0. Keep the initial value for yourself.
- Open a new tab and log in to the social network. An error will appear. That's how it should be!
- Go to any section, such as news or photos.
- Go back to the first options tab and reset the initial value of the option you changed first.
Are you bored? And I'm offline...
This setting will help you stay offline. But do not go to your page or visit the pages of other users. Otherwise online will appear again.
Peculiarities
If you want to stay offline using the methods described in the article, then you cannot publish any entries either on your own or on the wall of other users. Otherwise you will give yourself away. Also keep in mind that there are a large number of different programs on the Internet that allow you to hide the time you are present on VK, but you should not use them. They may be fraudulent or have viruses. Use only the methods and applications described here.
Invisible VK for iPhone or Android
We have already looked at how to log into VK through invisibility on a computer. Now let's discuss how to be offline on VKontakte on your phone.
You must first download the official VK mobile application.
- Launch the VKontakte application.
- Enter "Options".
- Select the "About" section.
- A window will appear where you will need to click on the picture with the dog three times. You won't notice any changes. This is fine.
- Close the application.
- Go to your smartphone where you usually dial a number to make a call. Dial *#*#856682583#*#*
- Don't start calling using the call button! You will see a window where you can configure the hidden features of VK.
- ABOUT.
A very serious but necessary screenshot without cats
Now your status will always look like Offline.
Ways to hide visiting time on VKontakte
The reasons that a person does not want other users to know when he logged into VK can be very different. But this question is of interest to many. You can hide the time both from your PC and from your phone. Let's look at these methods in detail.
From PC
If you do not want other users to see exactly what time you visited the VK resource, then use browser extensions. An excellent plugin is VKfox. It is designed for any browsers running on the Chromium engine. You need to download the application by following the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=ru. The following actions are required:
- Follow the link provided above.
- In the search bar, enter the name of the VKfox program and click on the Enter button.
- Next, press the “Install” button. The plugin will be instantly added to the browser.
- After that, click on the small VKfox image. This action will take you to the utility page, where you can find out all the necessary information.
When the plugin is installed, you will see a program icon in the browser panel where the tools are shown. You need to click on it. This will allow the plugin to access your VKontakte account. After this, you can visit the social network and also use some of the functionality of VK. But no one will see what you are online.
To send messages, view various events on your own page and find out who is online now, you need to click on the VKfox extension icon. Just be careful and under no circumstances visit the vk.com resource, as this will make your presence known to others.
From a mobile device
The official version of the VKontakte application does not have a function that allows you to hide the time of your visit to the VK resource. The developers are not interested in this. Some time ago she was. But you can use other programs. The Kate Mobile application is available for mobile phones. It is the most popular among social network users. Its functions differ significantly from the official VK utility. Here you can log into the VKontakte social network and no one will see that you are online. To hide your presence, you need:
- Install the Kate Mobile program from the official Play Market store for Android OS.
- Launch it and visit your own VKontakte profile.
- Next, you need to click on the “Settings” column, having first clicked on the three dots located at the top right corner of the screen.
- Now at the point where the online mode is configured, set o.
After these simple manipulations, you can write private messages to anyone you want, read various news, go to people’s pages without fear of being noticed.
Instructions on how to change age on VKontakte
After you have registered in a contact, you are asked to enter your basic data, as well as add contacts, your interests, information about education, of course, career, military service and your life position. But we are interested in how to change the age in a contact, and its immediate change is carried out in the [Basic] tab.
We go to the VKontakte website and log into our account through the authorization form. Then you need to edit the page, in our case, change the age, get to the edit section of your profile, in three ways. As shown in the image, the first link is located opposite the active button of the left menu [My Page], directly on the right side and has an abbreviation in the form [ed.]. The second way is to go to the editing section, there may be an active field under your photo, the link has a similar name [Edit Page]. A third, alternative way to get to the page with basic information for editing can be a direct link with the address
If the theoretical side of how to get to the editing section of my page is clear, then you can proceed to actions to change the age in contact. To do this, follow the links mentioned above, go to the [Main] tab and find the window responsible for the birthday. After this, you can use the numeric sliders, as well as indicating the month, to set the desired value for your date of birth, and click the save button. In the future, this will become your age in contact, which, as you already understand, will be calculated by the date, month and year of birth.
More information on how to change the age in a contact
If, for some reason, you do not want your age changes or simply the dates of your birthday themselves to be displayed on the contact page, then you can use an additional option, all in the same [Basic] section. To do this, you will need to lower the cursor to the next line, it is this line that is responsible for displaying age on your page. You will be offered three options - show the date of birth, show only the month and day, and not show the date at all. You choose your option, depending on your desire or secrecy, display your date and age, and save the option you need.
This was a basic instruction on how to change the age in a contact, we hope the sequence of actions is clear to you. Now, as promised, let's see how to hide age in contact.
How can you hide your age on VKontakte?
We decided to hide our age from public viewing; this can easily be done using the same analogy as in the paragraph described above. Go to my page, edit, main tab and under the [Birthday] window, choose not to show the date of birth on my page. Everything is ready, now your date of birth will not be displayed on your contact page, but you should understand that this is only a visual mechanism for hiding the date. Since you can find out the date of birth and age of a VK user even if it is hidden, this is what the next paragraph is about.
Find out the age of a contact
The level of confidentiality of your profile, if you have set the settings not to show the date of birth, is only visible, since the date is still indicated in your profile and is not displayed only on the page. But in search, it’s a completely different matter, for example, you know that you can find a person in a contact not only by first and last name, but, for example, by school, university, city, and also by age. To find out the age of a person, for example, knowing his first and last name, you need to enter [People], the person’s data, into the search, and then set the expected age one by one. Let's look at an example with the image below.
We entered the first and last name, clicked search, even without country, city, school, and so on, the search returns people with the given first and last name, and then all we have to do is put numbers, suggested age, and person in the drop-down list.
Please note that we were able to look at the age of both the profile of the person added as a friend, and of a complete stranger. A search in a contact displays the city, country and age, but even if the age is hidden, the number set, as in the example of 29 years, will be the person’s real age, more precisely indicated during registration, but hidden from users.
Use special programs
If you are interested in how to be invisible on VKontakte, then turn to the help of third-party software. For example, you can use the “Vklife” program, which has the function of hidden site visits. Please note that the administration of the social network VKontakte, having discovered that you are using additional software, may freeze your page for “suspicious activity on it.” If you are ready to take such a risk, then feel free to use this program and its many analogues. There are no prohibitions on visiting your home page and other people’s accounts.
Why did the “was online recently” status appear in VK?
If after changing the settings you cannot change your status, try the following:
- If you have deleted VK.Me from your phone, return to the Play Market and install it;
- Go to settings and open Applications ; Select Apps in Android
- We look for the VK.Me application in the list and select it;
- Then select the Memory and click on Clear cache . Select Clear cache
Now go to the messenger settings and change the status. After that, delete the application from your phone. This instruction will be useful if you have previously used the VK MI application to change your status. Otherwise, try restarting your browser or clearing its cache and history.
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Is it possible to hide the date and time when you logged into VK?
Could it be that a person hid the date and time of his visit to VKontakte, and then how can one find out when he visited? How to hide my time when I logged into VK? In fact, the time when you were last online (online) cannot be hidden. If someone told you that you can do this and continue using the site as usual, then he is simply lying. There is no such official possibility. Until April 2021, it was possible to remain invisible in some applications, then this option was removed completely. All that remains is (read more below).
The last login time disappears on its own if you haven’t logged in for a long time (more than three months). It is believed that after this time it no longer matters when exactly the person was online - it was too long ago. That’s why you don’t see this time for some people: they simply haven’t been online for a long time, and the date (time) of their visit has disappeared. They themselves did not hide anything. But the time will appear again the next time the person comes in. Or maybe the person could not restore access and has not used the old page for a long time, having opened a new page instead.
How to use VK offline? The VKontakte administration reports that they have never made it possible to hide online status. You can only remain invisible through , if you just monitor what is happening in your VK (are there new messages, likes, who is online, and the like). As soon as you go to the VKontakte website, you will appear on the network again, and your friends will be able to see it on your page. However, for many this is enough. Try it, it's convenient and safe.
Invisibility in mobile applications like Kate Online and similar no longer works. In addition, among such applications there are many fraudulent ones that do nothing and simply steal your passwords. So be careful. The most reliable login method is , which has been around for many years and has almost two million users worldwide.
There is another auxiliary way to hide the time of the last login to VK - you can log in, do something, and delete your page before leaving. It is not permanently deleted immediately, so you can restore it the next time you log in. But it is not recommended to do this constantly, because you risk losing access. And of course, people who look at your page will see that it has been deleted.
