They sent a message in a personal, you need to read it, but so that the sender does not know about it, and it would remain “unread”. How to do it? On the Internet you can find various ways, but most of them are already outdated and do not work. Here are all the methods relevant for 2019.
Method 1: On a computer in the Chrome or Firefox browser
First you need to open private messages using the link:
Find messages from the right person in the list. You may need to scroll down.
You will see the beginning of each message. If the message is long, then it seems to be cut off, there is an ellipsis at the end:
How to view the whole message and leave it "unread"? In Chrome or Firefox browser do this:
- Click right click mouse over the text of the message to bring up the context menu.
- Choose an item "View element code" or "Inspect", Inspect- usually it is at the very end of the menu. The Code Inspector window will open.
- Press the right arrow [→] on the keyboard to open the selected page element in the inspector, or open it with the mouse - left-click on the triangle.
- The full text of the message will appear in the inspector.
- By continuing to perform steps 1-3, you can read other messages. You can’t just click on them with the left button, in this case they will be “read”.
- After viewing the messages, close the inspector window with a cross and do not touch anything else. The message will remain unread.
The described method does not always work.
The date in the reference is always tomorrow. It will change to the next one if you open our instructions tomorrow. This is to show all messages, including the most recent ones. You can specify a different date - in this case, messages sent before the specified date will be displayed.
Method 2: on the phone, via Kate Mobile
Install mobile app Kate Mobile (this is NOT official app VK, and it is only for Android), run it, log in with your login and password from VK. Further:
- Menu (three dots on the top right).
- Settings.
- Online (invisibility settings).
- Check the box "Close unread (always leave messages unread)."
- Exit the menu.
Method 3: Browser extensions on a computer
There are some browser extensions for Chrome, Yandex, Opera, Firefox that allow you to read messages without marking them as read. Use them at your own risk. We warn you that some of them may turn out to be malicious, so we do not list them here and do not recommend them.
Method 4: separate programs for working with correspondence in VK
On the Internet, you can find separate programs that allow you to download your correspondence from VK to a computer (export dialogues), and various unofficial clients. To do this, you need to log in with your username and password. Likewise, be warned that this may not be safe. For this reason, such programs are also not listed here and are not recommended.
When sending a message to Vkontakte, we sometimes wait for a response to it. But it is not known whether the interlocutor read it or whether it has not yet been read. Unread messages are quite easy to identify both from the phone and from the computer.
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How to find out if my message in VK has been read from a computer.
If you wrote a Vkontakte message to another person and sent it, then it is very easy to find out about the status of reading it. For this, color highlighting is used, the standard functionality from VK developers.
Go to your VK messages. you take away unread messages against the background of the rest, they are highlighted darker than the rest of the read messages.
In the example in the image, we see 2 unread messages from list of all dialogues.
Of course, the visibility of such a selection leaves much to be desired, perhaps such a designation of unread messages should have been made more contrasting. For example, depending on how the laptop screen is located, such a selection changes from clear to completely indistinguishable, merging.
In the dialog itself, if you enter, we will also see a darker, blue highlight around the sent message, if the message has not yet been read. If the message is read, then there will be no selection and the color will be light, like the rest of the background of the Vkontakte site.
It is not visible whether the message has been read or not in Vkontakte.
Depending on the angle at which you look at the monitor screen, your computer or laptop. Highlighting unread messages can overlap and be difficult to distinguish. Just try looking at the dialogues from a different angle.
How to see unread messages in VK from your phone.
In the VK application for mobile and in mobile version, it has a rule that messages that are unread are highlighted more than dark color than the rest of the background.
In the example, circled in red are 2 messages that have not yet been read.
How to find out who read a message in a Vkontakte conversation.
Again, following the example of Whats App, where gray checkmarks appear, when the message is delivered and change color to green when the message is read. The checkmarks remain gray as long as they are unread messages.
There is no such function on Vkontakte, but if you sent your message, be sure that it will reach when the interlocutor enters the social. net.
Hello, friends! As you know, all messages from other users that you have not read yet are highlighted in blue. As soon as you click on the message, a dialog will open with the selected user and the message will be read - it will no longer be written on a blue, but on a white background. And, of course, your interlocutor will also understand that you have read the message.
But there are times when you do not need the other person to know that you are reading his letters. Let's say you are offended by a person, or even someone unfamiliar writes. And you want to read it! What to do in such a case?
Here, let's take a look at this. We will learn how to read a completely sent message from another user. At the same time, it will still be displayed as unread on his page and on your page.
If you have already clicked on a message that you did not want to click on and opened a dialogue, then it will go to the read status. The question arises: how to mark a message in Vkontakte as unread? Well, that one can not be helped in any way (on this moment, anyway) - to pretend that you have not read it will not work. But for the future, you can use one of the methods described in the article.
How to read Vkontakte messages without marking them as read
If the user sent a short message, then everything is very simple. Go to your messages and read the sent text without opening the dialogue. If there are several messages, type in the search bar the full name and surname of the user (for example, Anya Kaminskaya), and you will see a list with all his messages.
But if there is an ellipsis at the end of the visible part of the message text, it means that it is not displayed completely.
The method may take time if you have a large history of correspondence in your profile. But ... if you really want to read messages from a computer or laptop, and there is no other way, then perhaps it's worth it.
Please note that it is not always safe to download various programs for Vkontakte from the Internet. There is a possibility of catching a virus, or that your username and password will fall into the hands of another person.
Using AutoVK
Download the AutoVK program from the official website - it is indicated in the screenshot below in the lower right corner: AutoVK.ru.com.
Enter your username and password, then click on the "Authorization" button.
Now the name and surname indicated in your Vkontakte profile should appear in the lower left corner. If so, click on the "Messages" button.
In the next window, you need to select a folder on your computer where all dialogs will be downloaded. I have previously created a folder "Downloaded correspondence" on the desktop. I select it and click OK.
Wait for the process to complete and a window with the message "Done" will appear.
We are looking for the selected folder and open it.
It will show files - the entire dialogue with one person, this is a separate file. "Chat_#_1" is the conversation you are participating in. The name of each file is the page id of the user with whom the correspondence took place.
We go to the page of the user we need in VK and copy his id from the address bar of the browser. Next, in the explorer, click on the search bar and paste the copied number there.
As a result of the search, only one file will remain in the Downloaded Correspondence folder. Open it.
Correspondence with the selected person will open in the notebook. At the beginning of each line, the date and time of the sent message will be indicated.
As you can see, the text that I need is shown at the top.
Make it easy to read.
You read what the person wrote to you, and the Vkontakte message is still displayed as unread on both your and his page.
Using VK-Robot
Download the program from the Internet and unzip the archive. You do not need to install it, just run the executable file with the *.exe extension.
The VK-Robot program is paid, but there is trial period- 5 days. When it ends, some of the functions will simply become unavailable, otherwise it will be possible to use it.
The main window of VK-Robot looks like this. Go directly to "Settings".
On the "Accounts" tab, enter the "Login" and "Password" from your Vkontakte page and click "Add account". After that, it should appear in the box on the right. Click "Save" and close the settings window.
Now click on the arrow next to the word "Export". Select "Export Dialogs" from the drop-down menu.
Specify an account and click "Select".
Then select the folder where all dialogs will be downloaded and click "OK". I have the same folder as in the previous paragraph. If you have not created a folder before, then do it now by clicking "Create Folder".
Wait until all dialogs are downloaded.
Find the selected folder and go into it. Here all files will be signed - this is the name and surname of the user with whom you corresponded. They are arranged in alphabetical order. Click on the file whose messages you want to read.
The text I want is shown at the very top because it was last message from this user. The time and date when it was sent is indicated at the end of the text of the message.
Read what a friend, or a complete stranger, writes to you, and be calm - he will not know about it.
We use the phone
If you want to read a message on your Android phone or tablet, but keep it unread, then you can use various programs.
I will show on the example of the Kate Mobile program. Download it from Play market and go to your Vkontakte account.
Then go to the "Messages" section. As you can see, I have one unread. Click on the three vertical dots in the top right corner.
From the list that opens, select "Settings".
When you close the open dialog, you will see that the message you just read is still displayed in the list as unread, and your interlocutor does the same.
If you receive notifications about new received Vkontakte messages in your mail, then go to your mailbox. There, in incoming letters, there will be a letter from Vkontakte, and it contains the full text of the message that the user sent you.
And finally, let me remind you that if you read the message, but not in one of the ways described above, and now you want to make the message unread in VK, then this will not work for you - alas, there is no turning back.
That's all. Now you know how you can read the sent message so that your friend does not know about it, and it is still displayed as unread.
Almost all Vkontakte users know how to determine whether a sent Vkontakte message has been read or not. If it is highlighted in the background, it means that the user has not yet read it, and if there is no highlight, then the message has been read.
But is it possible to see the message, but make it so that for the sender it still remains as unread? There are three ways how this can be done.
- If there is only one message, then it is not necessary to enter the dialogue in order to read it. However, the message may be long, or there may be several, such as four. Therefore, you can read only part of the message or read the last one, but without knowing what is written in the previous ones.
To do this, copy the link vk.com/im?q=day:11112030 and paste it into the line of the browser from which you access Vkontakte. After that, you will be able to see a list of messages that have been sent to you recently. Moreover, this list will contain both read and unread messages. Even though you read them, the sender will still show them as unread. However, if the message is too long, it will not be displayed in full.
View received messages using a link
FROM mobile phone everything is done exactly the same. Link copied vk.com/im?q=day:11112030 to the phone browser, after which you will see all the latest received messages.
- There is another way, but it can only be applied on the phone, with Android system. To do this, you need to install the Kate Mobile app in Play Store. After authorization in the application, you need to go to the profile settings. In the "online" subsection there is a "close unread" item. Make sure there is a checkmark next to this item.
Settings for displaying messages as unread
With this application, you can read incoming messages in full, but the sender will still see them as unread. Only when you cancel this feature, or reply to a user's message, will the message be marked as read.
- And the third way is to read email messages. In the page settings there is an item "notifications". At the very bottom of the list there will be an "attach email" tab.
Attaching an email to a Vkontakte account
After linking the email, the "always notify" tab will be available. Below it is a list of news that you would like to receive on email. In this list there is an item "private messages". Thus, you can read messages that come to you on Vkontakte via e-mail.
Everyone loves to receive Vkontakte messages, but many users try to view the text anonymously, pretending that the messages have not been read. People choose to do this for a variety of reasons. Firstly, he does not want to take part in correspondence (especially if it is a collective conversation). Secondly, the user does not currently know what to write. Thirdly, there is no desire to continue communication with this or that user. Fourth, it is necessary to delay the response time by choosing a new line of behavior. It is quite possible to read messages in VK and leave them unread. Next, we'll figure out how to do it.
Anonymous reading of messages on the computer
None special applications and no software is needed. Everything is pretty simple. All you have to do is follow these steps in sequence:
1. Log in to the social network;
2. Go to private messages;
3. Put the mouse cursor in address bar, which needs to be cleaned up to the characters im?. As a result of this, a link of the following form should appear https://vk.com/im?;
4. Add q=day:17122017 to the link to get https://vk.com/im?q=day:17122017. The numbers at the end of the link will indicate the date until which all correspondence messages will be found in the search. The numbers, respectively, select and enter the ones that you need.
How to read VK messages from your phone so that they remain unread
The second method is only suitable for owners of mobile gadgets that work on operating system Android. You can read notifications received on Vkontakte through an application called kate mobile. It needs to be downloaded and installed on mobile device to use it to view messages. Just before that, in the settings, you need to check the box next to the line "Activate stealth mode." The option "Close message unread" is also set there.
Important nuances
Often users accidentally click on messages and then regret it. How to make the notification unread again by returning the status “sent” to it?
In the new design of Vkontakte given function was fixed at the same time as the removal of the archive of old messages tool. That's it deleted messages and notifications will automatically disappear forever, as well as the ability to hide activity in the correspondence. In order not to puzzle over how to make the message unread back, you should carefully think about whether or not you want to read the message from a particular person.
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