How to hide VKontakte friends from a specific person. How many friends can you hide on VK?
Hello, dear visitors and users of Contact! We are sure that many of you want to know how to hide friends on VKontakte. Why hide friends on VKontakte? Sometimes such a need arises to hide a friend or even several acquaintances from prying eyes and do not show selected buddies to strangers or even loved ones and relatives.
Therefore, our simple instructions on how to add and hide friends in a contact were created for you. It's actually simple. A similar function has already been implemented in VKontakte settings. Just go to the Contact settings on your page and select the desired friends from the list. Next we will give simple instructions How to make hidden friends on VKontakte.
Go to profile settings. To do this, you need to find the “My Settings” menu item and click on it with the mouse.
After you are in the settings menu, look for the next menu item - “Privacy”, as shown in the next picture.
There are many menu options in privacy, but we are interested in the option “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions.” It is there that you can learn how to hide friends in a contact and configure the display settings of any friend. As you can see in the next picture, by default this option is configured to display all comrades.
By going to this option, you can choose who to leave and who to hide from prying eyes. As you can see from the following picture, we have already added thirty buddies to the invisible list.
Now you know how to hide some VKontakte friends. This concludes our instructions. We hope that it will be useful and useful. If you have any questions, you can always leave a comment on the article.
We have already touched on this topic in the material. There we looked at how you can see hidden friends.
In this instruction, let's talk about how to hide friends on VKontakte. And we will analyze this process step by step.
This is done in the privacy settings. Go to your page, open the menu on the right top corner, and click “Settings”.
Now open the “Privacy” section and go to the “My Page” block. Here we need a parameter “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”.
A form will open in which you need to add the friends you want to hide. To do this, find a person in the list and simply click on him. It will be added.
By analogy, add all users to this list. When finished, press the button "Save changes".
How to hide friends on VK from your phone
If you try to do this through the application, then you will not succeed (see). For some reason, the developers removed this setting in the mobile version of VK.
But you can go the other way. Go to your page through the browser installed on your phone. Open the menu and at the very bottom click the link “Full version”.
Now do the same as we did in the previous step.
Video lesson: how to add hidden friends on VK
Conclusion
So if you have a friend that you don't want to show, then the list of hidden friends is just for this case.
Questions?
By actively communicating on social networks, you acquire many acquaintances and “fans”. Directly on VK, any user can see the list of your friends and use this information for their own purposes. What should I do? Administration social network, especially for such cases, has provided the ability to hide friends from prying eyes.
Using this function, you can remove from public access one or more contacts; in some cases, the entire list will be hidden. At the same time, no one except you will be able to find out about the existence of a secret connection.
How does this work?
By adding a person’s account to “friends”, a certain “connection” is formed between your pages. Now, you receive notifications about actions performed on this page, the contact is displayed in a special list so that you can always write a message with a couple of mouse clicks, etc.
By transferring a friend to the hidden section, he disappears from the list of friends, becoming invisible to other users who visit your page.
- Via computer;
- Mobile application(Android and IOS).
Since the algorithm of actions is different, taking into account the method of authorization on the social network.
How many friends can you hide?
IN different times, users were allowed to hide the entire list, then a maximum of 15 people. At the time of writing (2018), the number is limited to 30 contacts - choose wisely.
I would immediately like to warn gullible users trying to “break” the system. To bypass the VKontakte limit, there are no special programs, services or scripts. Using the above methods, you risk losing access to your page.
Hiding friends via computer
1. Using a browser, open the official VKontakte website (vk.com) and log in.
2. In the upper right corner of the screen, click on your name. In the drop-down menu, select “Settings”.
3. From the list of settings - select “Privacy”.
4. Find the item “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions” - click “Everyone except”.
5. In the pop-up window, check the box for the accounts of friends you want to hide from prying eyes, click “Save changes”.
6. Click on the “Who sees my hidden friends” section, select “Only Me” to hide the list from all users or a few specific ones.
You can check the correctness of the actions performed by logging into your page from another account.
Using your phone or mobile app
You can also change your privacy settings by hiding one or more friends from the list using your smartphone, but with a small caveat. The mobile application for Android and iPhone contains a “Privacy” section, but there is no item that allows you to hide contacts.
Finally, let me remind you once again - do not try to get around the 30-person limit using third party programs and services, the only thing you will achieve is to lose your account.
Video instructions
VKontakte is a huge social network with many users, pages, a huge amount of useful content (videos, music, applications, games, etc.). And the rules in this social network are constantly changing. If previously it was possible to hide all your friends so that no one could see them, now you won’t be able to hide them all - there are restrictions for this. At first there were no restrictions, then it was possible to hide 15 people, and now it is possible to hide 30 people. This figure may increase over time. After all, everything changes! And the social network Vkontakte is now not the same as it was 3 years ago. For example, there used to be a “” section, but now it is gone and now you can create in contact instead of meetings. Previously, it was very easy - you could send 40 invitations a day from the group itself strangers, but now there is no such function.
Let's move directly to the question of the article:
1. Go to the “Settings” section in the left column.
2. Click on the “Privacy” tab at the top.
3. Find there “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions” and click on “All friends”
4. A window will open in which you can select the friends you want to hide. To do this, in the left column you need to click on the plus sign next to your friend. Thus, he is transferred to the list of hidden friends. On at the moment You can hide a maximum of 30 friends.
6. Now not all of your friends are visible, and some of them are hidden. For example, 30 friends are hidden.
7. To prevent other people (for example, your friends) from seeing your hidden friends on VKontakte, you need to have them in the list “Who can see my hidden people” stood “Only me.” By default, everything should be configured normally and “Only Me” should be set.
So they hid some VKontakte friends.
Why is it now impossible to hide all friends on VKontakte? The social network did this on purpose so that more people I moved from page to page so that they spent more time on VKontakte, I traveled through other people’s pages. Thanks to this, the social network is promoted and earns more.
Why do people hide their friends? There may be various reasons. For example, a person just makes acquaintances and corresponds in contact with many people and does not want your real friends to know about these acquaintances, or does not want someone unfamiliar to find out about your acquaintances, and thanks to them learn more about you. There are different reasons. But now you know how you can hide friends in contact.
As you know, the social network Vkontakte allows us to see friends on someone else’s page. For curious people, this is good function, and for those who have something or someone to hide, this is a bad function. In this regard, the developers of the social network came up with the ability to hide some people.
It’s all very easy to set up, and in this article we’ll figure out exactly how.
How to add people as hidden friends
Go to your page and click on the “My Settings” menu item. Go to the “Privacy” tab. In the “My Page” section we find the line “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions.” Click on the “All friends” link:
We have a list. On the left side of the list are the people who are visible. On the right side we have hidden ones. To hide some we must click the plus signs next to them.
To remove a friend from the hidden list, just click on the cross on the right side of the window opposite his name.
After you do everything and make a list of hidden ones, do not forget to click on the “Save Changes” button.
If you don’t understand anything, then look at the screenshot, it will put everything in its place:
Giving some people access to the list of hidden friends
In the privacy settings, we can hide friends not from all users; we also have the ability to show hidden friends to some selected users.
Find the line “Who sees my hidden friends” and click on the link opposite it, which is called “Only me”:
We open a list in which we select the item “Some friends”:
A list that is already familiar to us appears; you already know how to form it. After selecting the people who can see your hidden friends, click on the “Save” button.
And all that remains for us is to check the changes made. To do this, go to the very bottom of the page with privacy settings. We find the line “You can see how other users see your page.”
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 installed browser, 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. It loads right away for you mobile version site and you are redirected to m.vk.com.
At the very bottom we find a link to the “Full version”. Well, about how to hide friends in full version I wrote about 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 I hope that I helped you deal with this problem)