Many users go to VK to listen to their favorite music or search for interesting posts, but do not want to communicate. To prevent your friends from displaying the “online” status next to your name, you can “turn on invisibility.”
There are several ways to do this:
- No third party apps;
- Using a special plugin or settings for browsers;
- Inclusion of alternative “mirrors”;
- Activating stealth mode via mobile devices.
Become invisible without third-party applications
This method is the simplest. In order for friends to see you in the “offline” status for some time, you need to go to “Messages” and not perform any actions on the page for about 20-25 minutes.
Without activity, the account will go “offline”. This method will work until you refresh the My Page tab or start scrolling through other people's pages.
The second way is to add news or music to your Favorites. By clicking on the link, you can listen to songs or scroll through news items and be “offline”.
Ways to be invisible
There are a lot of ways to remain invisible on VKontakte. However, there are many that are currently not relevant. First of all, you need to understand why you want to remain incognito; this could be listening to music, or reading news in the feed, or browsing communities. Each activity has its own way to stay offline. With each new update of a service or application, its functionality changes, so you need to carefully read the services provided by the program and use them correctly accordingly.
Below we will look at all the currently available ways to stay offline while reading messages and listening to music.
From computer
Every day, millions of users from different countries visit the VKontakte social network from various devices, but one of the most popular is a personal computer. The website client for the desktop version of the social network is considered one of the most convenient and functional in the whole world, naturally among its direct competitors, such as Facebook or Twitter.
A very important factor for many of us is the ability to maintain our offline status, that is, to be supposedly outside the network, using a personal computer. It is possible to become invisible while surfing VK using a PC in various ways, which we will discuss below.
To maintain your offline status, follow the guidelines below:
- Log in to your VKontakte social network account.
- Go to the page you need, where you plan to spend some time offline (for example, music).
- Leave for twenty minutes and do not perform any actions on the site. After this time, your profile will go to sleep, in other words, it will become invisible online.
- Now you have the opportunity to listen to music, or read messages or entries in a group, the main thing is not to click on the item in the VK “My Page” menu and do not refresh the site in the browser.
The next more effective way is to save the VKontakte social network in your browser bookmarks. How to perform this procedure is described below:
- Go to the desired page in VK.
- In the address bar of your browser, click on the star logo and save VK to your bookmarks.
- Restart your web browser and open a tab from your browser's navigation bar.
- The online status will be deactivated. As in the first case, you must not refresh the page and not go to the “My Page” item.
From phone
Logging into VK incognito from a mobile device is much easier than from a personal computer. Primarily due to the fact that there are various applications that allow you to perform this procedure by installing them on your phone.
Android
In order to visit the social network “VKontakte” from a mobile device on the Android platform invisible, follow these steps:
- Launch the classic application on your Google Play Market smartphone.
- In the search, enter Kate Mobile.
- After identifying the search query, go to the application that opens.
- Install Kate mobile on your mobile device.
- Launch the program and in the application settings, set the settings to “Be offline if possible.”
- You can find this option by clicking the phone icon next to the user profile name.
Setting preferences for the Opera browser
To become invisible through the Opera browser (), go to advanced settings mode, click on the “Network” tab on the left and uncheck the box next to the phrase “Enable automatic redirection”. It is considered normal that the service displays error information after attempting to log into a personal account.
These settings remain in effect until you update your profile. After you exit the social network, return your settings to their previous state.
How to log into VK invisible from your phone - online?
You can connect an invisibility application from your phone, without downloading, and solve the problem of how to remain invisible to everyone except your friends. Using this program, you can watch files with music or movies in incognito mode. If you have a smartphone running on Android, if you need to visit VKontakte invisibly, you can use the special official KateVK client. This is an application that allows you to visit web pages unnoticed. Activating this feature is quite simple. You will need to go to the special settings of the application and launch the “Be offline if possible” mode.
KateVK is easy to use, thanks to which users have completely changed their standard VK client to this one.
You can and should only download the utility and activate it from the official website, known as katemobile.ru.
Here we tell you in detail how to install invisible in VK.
Many users use another method of activating the invisible mode when using VK. This is the use of anonymizers or mirrors. This is an ideal opportunity to bypass blocking of a specific resource. These are special sites that encrypt all current connections, on the basis of which you can be incognito when visiting VK.
Mirror mode
“Mirrors” are special sites for an alternative entrance to VK. These sites encrypt your connection, so you can remain invisible to other users. This method is very popular among office workers, who are blocked by security services from accessing various network resources.
One of the most popular and secure services is API-dog(). Its use is also relevant for mobile devices on Windows, Android and iOS. To authorize on the API-dog service, enter your login and password for VK and select the OS:
How to be invisible in VK from a computer
There are several options to remain invisible in VK from your computer. We will look at the most popular methods for this. You decide which one to choose yourself. Let's also talk about one possibility that can be called official (though with some reservations).
Official way
In fact, the word “official” can be put in quotation marks here. On the VKontakte website there is no such function as visiting your account incognito. However, since this entire system operates on the basis of program code, it can be “deceived.” The truth is not in everything and not always.
We are now talking about the time you are inactive on the Internet. After all, you don’t log out of your profile every time using the “Log Out” button. Often you just click on the cross in the right corner. In this case, the system counts down some time and makes your status offline.
We can use this calculation of the system to be in stealth mode in VK from a computer. For this:
- Log in to your profile.
- Go to the news tab.
- Do nothing for about 15 minutes.
- The system will think that you clicked on the cross and left and will deactivate your online status.
After this, you can safely be online. But some actions will throw you back online. Let's list what you can and cannot do to prevent the invisible mode in VK from disappearing from your computer.
Can:
- View the news feed.
- Open posts in full screen.
- Go to the album with audio recordings.
- Listen to music.
It is forbidden:
- Go to your main page.
- Open your friends list.
- Read and write messages.
- Join groups and pages of other users.
As you can see, the possibilities are very limited. But if you just want to scroll through the news or listen to music, then this option is quite good. By the way, this may not work with video recordings. It may turn out that you watch five videos on your computer, and the sixth one will throw you online. Therefore, you need to be careful here.
So we’ve looked at one of the ways to be invisible in VK from a computer. Let's talk about others.
Plugins
Special plugins for PCs will help us answer the question of how to log into VK invisible from a computer. These are browser extensions designed specifically for this social network. As a rule, they are not limited to one single function, which is what attracts users. For example, they can help. Let's talk about one of these extensions.
VKlife Offline
This is an extension that will give us the opportunity to log into VK from a computer invisible. It is perhaps the most popular among users, so we decided to talk about it.
To try out VKlife Offline, do this:
- Go to the Chrome Store at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vklife-offline/dlfacmdgahibomlgegdcjnjaonljjnne/related?hl=en.
- Here you will see the name of the VKlife Offline plugin.
- It can be quickly installed by clicking on the appropriate button.
- Afterwards it will change to “Run”, which is what you should do.
- A window will appear in front of you where you need to click “Log in via VKontakte”.
- Don't forget to remove unnecessary checkmarks under this inscription.
- Now you need to enter your login and password for the page.
- Then click “Login”.
You will find yourself on your page, but no one will know about it. After all, you will have the VK stealth mode activated for your computer.
In general, this plugin has other useful functions in its full version, which is called VKlife.
- You can download music and videos.
- Track who unfriended or blocked you.
- View additional information about friends and followers.
You can also install this plugin from the official website https://vklife.ru/. True, this version is only compatible with Yandex Browser. If you start installing the extension, the browser will install automatically.
If you don’t want to install anything, neither extensions nor browsers, then we have another way for you. Next, we will tell you how to log into VK invisible from a PC without downloading anything unnecessary to your computer.
APIDog
VK invisibility from a computer without downloading plugins is possible by logging into a special website. It's called Apidog and keeps your online presence incognito.
How to log into VK invisible from a computer using it? Very simple.
- Go to https://apidog.ru/.
- Select the device you are using. In our case it is Windows.
- Enter your username and password for your page and you're done.
By logging into VK for your computer in this way, you will not be online and will remain invisible. Unfortunately, this site does not give a 100% guarantee that you will not be exposed. Some menu items may change your status to online. To avoid this, do this:
- Go to “Settings” - they are in the block on the left.
- In the “Site” tab, scroll down the page.
- There, check the box next to the line “highlight site elements with a red frame that stand out online.”
- You will now be warned. So, for example, the “Messages” and “News” blocks will appear in red frames. This means that if you go to them, you can end up online.
Initially, the site is configured to enable VK invisibility for your PC. But, if you want to be seen, you can change your status there in the settings. In the “Site” tab - the line “set online mode”.
Also, the online status will appear on your computer if, while on the site, you:
- Write comments.
- Give likes. By the way, all likes can be removed later.
- Post or repost.
- Upload photos.
- Well, and, as you may have guessed, write messages.
We hide our presence on VKontakte with the help of a little trick
The essence of the method lies in the peculiarities of assigning the “Online” status. It is activated the moment you visit your page. If you do not take any action within 15 minutes, the status will automatically change to “Offline”. You are now in incognito mode.
Keep in mind that in this state, you cannot access your page or the pages of your friends again. Otherwise, you will again receive the “Online” status.
You can go to the page of messages (see), photos (see), audio and video recordings (see).
VK invisible: log in from your computer without using additional software
Many people simply don’t want to bother downloading third-party add-ons and applications. If you are one of them and want to enable invisible mode without downloading, then you need to:
- log in to your page;
- go to Dialogues;
- leave the tab open and not be active for twenty minutes (do not look at subscribers, do not leave comments under posts and photos, do not watch videos, etc.), you can only listen to the tracks;
- after the specified time has passed, the person switches to Invisible status for other users. In this mode, you can write messages, join groups, listen to music. But if you create a conversation, visit your page, you will be “online” again.
This method has minor drawbacks. The main thing is that the functionality will still be limited, and you have to wait a long time to switch to incognito. So if you don't want to limit yourself, choose another option.
