Today we will remove excess garbage from our VKontakte feed. In a couple of clicks, you can remove all entries, posts of some friends or groups from the news.
Video instruction:
Hide all VKontakte news
Tired of being distracted by your VK feed? Do you procrastinate instead of working? Do you spend several hours a day on memes? - There is an exit! On VKontakte you can hide ALL news.
To hide all entries in the VK feed, we will configure the appropriate filter. On home page On the right in the “News” tab, click on the following icon:
In the window that opens, click on “Actions” and select “Hide All”.
Save and you're done. Now, instead of the feed, the following page will be displayed:
Hide individual friends' news
Some guy reposts boys' basins and MDKs? Let's remove this garbage from the feed. Go to the same filter, find the person using the search and uncheck the box.
Selected users immediately go to the “Not shown” tab. From there you can return them by clicking on the checkmark. Don't forget to save the changes and the posts of the selected friends will no longer be visible in the news feed. Group entries can be hidden in a similar way.
Under some circumstances, users social network VKontakte may need to hide personal photos. Whatever the reason for the concealment, the VK.com administration has already provided everything necessary for these purposes to each user.
Before you begin the process of closing photos, it is recommended to prioritize the importance, since in some cases the images are easier to delete. If you still need to hide the photo from one or all users, follow the instructions below, depending on your case.
First of all, it is important to understand that there are quite a lot of cases when you need to hide your photos and the solution to each individual problem requires consideration. In most cases, literally any problem with VKontakte photos is resolved by deleting them.
When going through the process of hiding your photos, remember that in some cases the actions taken are irreversible.
The instructions below allow you to easily solve the problem of hiding pictures on your personal page in one form or another, depending on what you want to achieve.
Hide the preview photo on your personal page
As you know, on the personal page of each VKontakte user there is a specialized block of photos, where various pictures are gradually collected as they are added. Both downloaded images and those manually saved by the user are taken into account here.
The process of hiding photos from this block is normal for most users and cannot cause any serious problems.
- Go to section "My page" via the main menu.
- Find a specialized block with photos on your personal page.
- Hover your mouse over the picture you need to hide.
- Now you need to click on the cross icon that appears in the upper right corner of the image with a tooltip "Hide".
- After clicking the mentioned icon, the photo located next to the deleted one will move to its place.
- If all photos are deleted from the feed or due to their moving to a private album with limited access rights, this block will change slightly.
The number of simultaneously displayed images in this block cannot exceed four.
After all the manipulations have been completed, the hiding can be considered complete. Please note that removing pictures from this feed can only be done manually, that is, there are no trusted extensions or applications for these purposes.
Hide a tagged photo
It often happens that a friend or acquaintance tags you in a picture or photo without your knowledge. In this case, you can use the special social settings section. VKontakte network.
In the process of hiding photos where you were tagged, all actions take place through the page settings. Consequently, after following the recommendations, completely all pictures where you were tagged will be removed.
Now, if someone tries to tag you in a photo, the resulting tag will be visible only to you. Thus, the photo can be considered hidden from outside users.
The VKontakte administration allows you to upload absolutely any photos, but with some minor restrictions on the age rating. If any user has published an ordinary photo of you, the only way out is to personally apply for removal.
Be careful, the privacy settings for tagged images apply to all photos without exception.
Hide albums and downloaded photos
Quite often, users face a problem when they need to hide an album or any photo uploaded to the site. In this case, the solution lies directly in the settings of the folder with these files.
If your privacy settings allow an album or a certain number of images to be seen exclusively by you as the account owner, then these files will not be displayed in the photo feed on your personal page.
If you need to set unique privacy settings for only some photos, you will have to do everything manually.
The privacy settings for a photo album, in most cases, do not require verification. If you still want to make sure that the settings are correct, that hidden pictures are visible only to you, you can ask a friend to go to your page and make sure on his behalf whether the folders with pictures are hidden.
By default, only an album is private "Saved Photos".
To date, the VKontakte administration does not provide the ability to hide any individual image. Thus, to hide a single photo you will need to create a new album with suitable privacy settings and move the file to it.
Take care of your personal data and wish you good luck!
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 hide 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. This entry also contains a “cancel” button. 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 . The benefit of quickly displaying images in your feed is that 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 a VKontakte photo feed
Hide VKontakte photo feed, 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.
If there are a lot of pictures, then privacy settings will help to keep them away from prying eyes.
- Open your profile settings section. They are located on the left of your profile.
- Then, go to the privacy tab, which is located in top panel menu.
- In the “My Page” subsection you will see the “Map with my photos” item. Opposite it, you can specify access to your photos for all users, some friends, or just for you. To ensure that no one can view the feed, click on the “Only me” item.
- 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.
Hello, friends! If you have too many active people in your friends list, whose posts often appear in your feed, and at the same time, they are not particularly interesting to you, then now we will figure out how you can hide the news of some groups or communities on VKontakte.
For those who don’t know: what does hidden news in VK mean? These are the ones you are not interested in. Please mark such entries. And if you want, you can completely prevent posts from certain groups or people from appearing in the feed.
Let's take a closer look at how to remove unnecessary information from your VKontakte feed and make it as interesting as possible.
Hiding a friend's news
If you need to hide the posts of a certain friend or person you follow on VK, then in the menu on the right in the “News” tab, opposite the desired user, click on the three horizontal dots.
Then select "This is not interesting" from the drop-down list.
The marked entry will disappear from the feed.
To prevent the selected person’s posts from appearing in your feed at all, click on the “Do not show news...” button.
To remove posts from several friends from your feed, click on the filter icon next to the “News” tab.
A window like this will open. Here, uncheck the boxes next to those users whose news you want to hide. After that, they will appear in the list, which is located on the “Not shown” tab.
If you want to hide all VKontakte news, click on the “Actions” button and select “Hide All”. By selecting “Show people” - all posts from groups you are subscribed to will be removed from the feed; “Show communities” - posts from your friends will not be displayed.
To prevent reposts from being shown, uncheck the “Show copies” box.
Save the changes by clicking on the appropriate button.
Hide group news
If you are subscribed to a group, but do not want to see its posts in your feed, then you can, of course, unsubscribe from this community. But this is a last resort. If something in this group still interests you, but you look at the information by going to the group itself, then let’s remove the group’s posts from the feed.
We do everything in the same way as described in the previous paragraph. Find the group entry that you want to hide and click on the three horizontal dots opposite it. Then select "This is not interesting."
After this, the “Do not show news...” button will appear, click on it, and then all posts of the selected community will disappear from your feed.
You can do it a little differently. While on the News tab, click on the filter image. A familiar window will open. The groups you are subscribed to are at the bottom of the list. Uncheck the box next to the community whose posts you want to hide.
If you generally need to remove records of all groups from the feed, then click on the “Actions” button and select “Show people”. The checkboxes next to the groups will be unchecked.
Hide your entries
To prevent your friends and subscribers from showing yours in the news feed, for example, that you added a photo, tagged a person, etc., do the following.
On your page, click on the arrow near the thumbnail at the top right and select “Settings” from the menu.
In the next window, in the menu on the right, go to the “Privacy” tab. Scroll down the page and in the “Other” section, opposite the item “What updates do my friends see in the news,” you need to select “No updates.”
IN old version On VKontakte this item was on the list, but after updating the social network, it was no longer there. In order for it to appear, you need to do the following. Select “Partition updates” from the list and check the box next to any item. Then click anywhere in the window to close the list.
Now click on “Partition updates” again and uncheck the box that you checked. After this, the item “No updates” will appear in the field we need. Close the list and exit the settings, all changes will be saved automatically.
Don’t worry, everything that you do on VKontakte: add people as friends, make reposts, leave notes, will not be shown in the feed of your friends and those users who subscribe to your page.
How to clear your VK feed from your phone
If you access VK from your phone more often than from your computer, then I’ll tell you how to hide friends’ news from your phone or tablet using the installed mobile app In contact with.
Everything is very simple. Open the news page in your profile and next to a friend or community whose posts you want to remove from your feed, click on the three vertical dots. Then select “Hide source news” from the list.
All posts of the selected user or group will disappear from the list of your feed.
How to get back hidden news
If you often hide posts from various friends, then it’s worth looking at this list, maybe you’ve become interested in the posts of a certain person again, and you can remove someone from it.
To open a list of friends whose news has been hidden, open the news page in your profile and click on the filter icon, which is located in the menu on the right.
If you need to remove all groups from this list, then click on the “Actions” button and select “Show communities” - all groups will be checked. The same goes for users, only you need to select “Show people”.
Save your changes.
So that your friends can again see your posts in their feed, click on the arrow next to the miniature avatar in the upper right, and select “Settings”.
Go to the “Privacy” tab and in the “Other” section, in the “What updates do my friends see in the news” item, select the desired item: either “All updates” or “Section updates”. In the second case, you need to check the boxes next to those items that will be shown in your friends’ feed.
I think everything is clear to you.
Today we will remove excess garbage from our VKontakte feed. In a couple of clicks, you can remove all entries, posts of some friends or groups from the news.
Video instruction:
Hide all VKontakte news
Tired of being distracted by your VK feed? Do you procrastinate instead of working? Do you spend several hours a day on memes? - There is an exit! On VKontakte you can hide ALL news.
To hide all entries in the VK feed, we will configure the appropriate filter. On the main page on the right in the “News” tab, click on the following icon:
In the window that opens, click on “Actions” and select “Hide All”.
Save and you're done. Now, instead of the feed, the following page will be displayed:
Hide individual friends' news
Some guy reposts boys' basins and MDKs? Let's remove this garbage from the feed. Go to the same filter, find the person using the search and uncheck the box.
Selected users immediately go to the “Not shown” tab. From there you can return them by clicking on the checkmark. Don't forget to save the changes and the posts of the selected friends will no longer be visible in the news feed. Group entries can be hidden in a similar way.
