How to hide photos in contact. How to hide photos on VKontakte? How to hide VKontakte photos from strangers

In today's episode I would like to tell you how to hide photos on VK.

The social network vk.com has a whole section with privacy settings, by going to which each account owner has the opportunity to hide from the eyes of other users everything that the personal page settings allow to hide. But, in order to hide photos in contact, it is not enough to use these privacy settings; you will also need to transfer the photos to an album. In general, the “Privacy” tab and the “Settings” section will not be needed at all.

How to hide photos on VK

I would like to note right away that photos that have not been uploaded to the album cannot be hidden. Therefore, if you want to hide some images, be sure to add them to the album.

Instructions:

Remember! Even if access to the album is closed, you can provide a direct link to the photo, and then the user will be able to view the image. There is no other way!

How to hide photos on VK in which you were tagged

At the beginning of the article I said that we would not need privacy settings, however, this is a little wrong. Because we will use the privacy settings, but not to hide photos uploaded to VK through your page, but to hide photos in which you were tagged by other users of the social network.

Well, let's begin!

• Click on the avatar icon in the upper right corner of the VKontakte website, select the “Settings” tab from the list.
• Go to the “Privacy” tab, then find the “Who can see photos I’ve been tagged in” option and set the “Only me” option.

How to hide VKontakte photos from the main page

If you want the photos to simply not appear on the main page, then in this case, just go to your page, hover your mouse over the image and click on the cross in the right corner of the photo.

Ready! This concludes the issue!

Images in your VK feed appear whenever you upload pictures not to a specific album, but to your wall. The function of displaying pictures in a feed above a wall appeared in VK relatively recently.

With it, you can quickly view new photos of your friends, like and leave comments without looking through your friend’s entire album. The photo feed is visible to all VK users unless you have hidden access to it in the settings. It’s easy enough to remove pictures from your feed. You can click on the cross, which is located on each thumbnail on the right. But is it that simple?

return photos to VKontakte feed?

How to return a photo to your VKontakte feed When you click the cross to hide a photo's thumbnail from your feed, a notification appears at the bottom that the photo will no longer be shown. There is also a “cancel” button in this entry. To return a photo to your VKontakte feed, you need to click on this button. If you hid the photo and refreshed the page, then return photo back to feed

It’s impossible in a couple of clicks.

You can upload them to your page again. Click on the link in the “add photos” feed and upload the photo again. Photos that you have hidden from your feed are still present on your page. In order to see them, just click on any remaining image and you will see all the photos that are in the feed. Yours can also do this .

And

. Displaying images quickly in your feed is useful because users who visit your page can learn more about you. This will be especially attractive for those who use VK not only for dating and communicating with friends, but also to improve their

If you do not want to show information about yourself, then it would be best to remove the feed from your profile altogether and leave closed albums only for close friends. How to hide your VKontakte photo feed

Hide VKontakte photo feed,

1. perhaps by clicking on the cross at the top of each thumbnail shown in the feed. When you perform this action, a previously downloaded photo appears in place of the hidden photo. Removing images in this way is quite convenient if you have very few photos on VK.
2. If there are a lot of pictures, then privacy settings will help to keep them away from prying eyes.
3. Open your profile settings section. They are located on the left of your profile.
4. When you do not want to show photos only to some of your friends, click on the “All except” item and from the list select those who will not be allowed to view the photos.

If you only hid photos from your feed, but not from albums, then users still have access to view your albums and .

To hide access to an entire album, open all photos from it. Go to the “Edit Album” tab. Select who you would like to show it to. You can also edit the comment settings for each album.

Users of the popular social network VKontakte can often see uninvited guests on their page. Sometimes they act rudely, leaving inappropriate comments on your photos. To prevent such arbitrariness, you should think about how to hide VKontakte photos, and then the problem will be solved.

How to hide VKontakte photos from strangers

You can hide your photos from prying eyes on VKontakte in the following way. So, log in to the site using your details. Then on the right, find the “My Settings” item and go to this tab. Once you are taken to another page, go to the Privacy tab. The page will refresh again, on it you should find the item “Who can see photos of me” and select “Only friends”. If you select this option, third-party users will not be able to view your photos, much less comment on them.

In addition, you should pay attention to the item “Who can see the photos in which I was tagged.” Opposite it you should select “Friends only”. After that, click on the “Save” button.

If you want to view hidden photos of your friends and relatives, you can find out the easiest way to do this from our article -.

Hiding an album with photos

If you need to hide an entire album with VKontakte photos, you should proceed as follows:

• Go to the “My Photos” tab. Hover your mouse over the album you want to hide. In the upper right corner you will see a pencil. Click on this icon. A window will immediately open allowing you to edit the album. Below the title and description, you'll see a tab that says "Who can view this album." In the drop-down window, check the box next to the option you want, including the following:
• "Only me";
• "Only friends";
• "Friends and Friends of Friends";
• “Everything except...”;
• "Some Friends";

Now you know how to hide saved VKontakte photos, and you will probably use one of the methods described above. You may need more information about closing an album, you can read about this in our article.

We have already hidden personal information from other users:

Now let's talk about the photos. Is it possible to upload an image (see) and make it inaccessible to other users? Now let's try to figure it out how to hide photos on VKontakte.

How it works

Unfortunately, there is no way to set privacy settings for individual photos. But this can be done for an album (see).

We conclude that photos need to be uploaded to albums. If you have photos that are not attached to any of them, move them.

Upload or transfer photos to an album

Let's add a photo. Go to the “Photos” section and press the button "Add Photos".

Find and select the desired image on your computer's hard drive. Click Open. It will be added to VK. Here we press the button "Add to Album".

We have a list of albums. Click on the desired one. The image is placed there.

How to hide a photo on VK

Once we have made sure that our photo is in the album, we must go to its settings. To do this, in the “Photos” section, move the mouse cursor over the desired album and click the button "Edit Album".

Now on the block "Who can view this album", set the value to “Only me”. Your photos are hidden!

VK has a whole section with privacy settings, in which users can hide the same photos. But it’s not enough to use these settings; you need to transfer the photos to an album.

For what? The fact is that photos that have not been uploaded to the album cannot be hidden. Therefore, if you have such an image, go to “My Photos”.

Here we point the arrow at the “Photos on my wall” block, a pencil symbol will appear, click on it.

After this action, the photo will be transferred to the album.

If you don’t have a photo album yet, go back to the previous page and click “Create an album.”

Give the album a name, create a description and click the “Create Album” button.

Next, transfer the downloaded photos to this album using the method indicated earlier. After that, go to “My Photos” and see an album that already contains the images you just transferred. Hover your mouse over the album and click on the pencil icon.

On the album settings page, under “Who can view this album?” set the desired parameter, for example, “Only me”. In this case, these photos will be available only to you. You can do the same with the item “Who can comment on photos?”. Then don't forget to click on the "Save Changes" button.

And don’t forget that a user can only see a photo from a hidden album if you give him a direct link to the image. In other cases, photos will be protected by privacy settings.