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A notice appeared on the VKontakte blog about the opportunity to test the updated design. Our editor couldn't resist the temptation and decided to join the first million users to try out the new options.

There are similarities in the appearance of the page (compared to the old design), but cosmetic changes have affected almost all elements of the page. Large icons, a neat VK logo instead of VKontakte - almost the entire space has become functionally necessary. Now only small parts of the page remain idle, despite the fact that the main windows are centered.

Looking at the main profile page, what immediately catches your eye is that the square thumbnails of user icons in messages and in the “Friends” block have been replaced with round ones. A “bell” has appeared, by clicking on which you can view the latest notifications - birthdays, friend requests. Now you can also subscribe to updates on other users’ posts, which will also be displayed when you click on the bell.

There is quick access to setting up menu items. You can literally remove unnecessary lines in just a few clicks or add quick access to communities that interest you.

“Dialogues” also underwent changes. Now this is a large block - a real haven for text battles. One column was divided into two. Visually, it resembles the version for tablets, so it won’t immediately hurt the eyes of mobile device users. Active conversations are highlighted in blue, and unread messages are marked with a bold blue dot. Messages marked as “Important” will be transferred to a special tab and will not be lost. Group chats have also changed: the search has been simplified, and an avatar can be selected immediately, and not after creation.

The “Audio Recordings” block has also been redesigned: larger round icons have been made, and while the selected song is playing, you can choose which track will play next.

Photo albums were previously displayed in tiles with two blocks per line. Now three albums with photos are displayed in one line. The new functionality allows you to delete or edit pictures in a group way, by highlighting the necessary ones. By the way, comments on photos in the new design resemble Facebook - they are in the right corner.

In addition to the fact that the news feed has increased in size, a slider has also appeared, by moving which you can put a filter on publications depending on the time of their appearance or interest.

At the moment, everyone can test the design for themselves, and if necessary, turn it off if it is very unusual and they want to mentally prepare for innovations.

In general, the design has become more voluminous and functional. As VKontakte Operations Director Andrey Rogozov noted, the main principle of the change is that the social network looks similar and recognizable on all devices, making it difficult for the user to get lost in the mobile version.

- this is not a joke. Since the transition to such an interface is obviously inevitable for everyone, the question is: how to return the old VKontakte design has only a temporary solution. But because albeit temporarily, but disable the new VKontakte design and it’s still possible to continue working with the usual sane interface, then that’s what we’ll do.

This question is relevant, perhaps, for all VKontakte users who, over 10 years, have become accustomed to the simplicity and convenience of the old design and use its functionality to the fullest. In particular, this applies to those who created and administer communities and groups - the developers of the new VK.com have certainly made their lives difficult with their innovations.

By the way, for this category of VK users I would like to give a practical recommendation: in order not to waste precious time on independent public promotion both on VKontakte and in all other popular social networks, and to fully concentrate on quality content for your community, you should contact the service Soclike. Judging by the numerous positive reviews, this PR team knows its business and will be able to quickly provide your group with the required number quality subscribers.

Let's return to the main question. Let's make a reservation right away - we will talk about browser version social network. Android and iOS applications, alas, will not be considered in this article.

Upd. 08/17/2016. Dear Reader, in order not to waste your precious time, I would like to immediately inform you: “The uprising has been suppressed, Skynet has won.” Well, jokes aside, the inevitable happened: despite all the protest sentiments of VKontakte users, the developers, after several “waves” of transferring users to the new design, decided that enough wasted time: on 08/17/16 ALL users of the social network were transferred to the new design... Accordingly, the addresses are new .vk.com simply does not exist at the moment, and recommendations using its return do not work...

This does not mean that there are now absolutely no ways to return the old VKontakte design: especially for those who do not give up, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the ““ block located below in the text. There you will find a method that will probably be able to extinguish the flame of righteous anger in you.

Well, before this block there will be information that has more historical than practical significance: the chronology of the fight against the disease called “ New design of Vk.com". Getting acquainted with this information will not take you, dear Readers, much time, and probably someone will be interested in knowing “how it all began,” so all previously working methods remain in the article. So let's begin.

For those who have become a “guinea pig” for VKontakte designers involuntarily (i.e., they simply encountered a new interface at a certain moment), there should be a link “Return to the old version...” located at the bottom of the left column with menus and advertising. In truth, the designers clearly tried to make the tool for how to return the old version of VKontakte as inconspicuous as possible: gray letters on a gray background - this is difficult to notice.

Those who voluntarily joined the “ranks of testers” of the new interface (by clicking on the ill-fated “Join testing” button) may not find a link to return to the old version.

And how to disable the new VKontakte design in this case?

Pay attention to the browser address bar:

As you can see, before vk.com “ new" Those. in fact, it is another user profile page. To return the usual vk.com/page_id, and with it to return the old version of VKontakte, we simply “edit” the address: you need to erase “ new." And, of course, press Enter (or the input confirmation key on a touch device).

The result will be like this:

Sound familiar? Probably to the point of pain :) Yes, yes, this is the good old vk.com interface, which everyone has gotten used to over the 10 years of its existence. Well, now it’s a small matter: all that remains is to bookmark this page in the browser, so as not to edit the address every time, and call up this page after logging in to the social network.

It is not yet known when exactly the redesign of VKontakte will “cover” everyone, so there is hope that the old version of vk.com will be able to be used for a long time.

Upd. 06/09/2016. It seems that the “old believers” did not rejoice for long: the VK.com team began a forced transfer to a new design without the possibility of returning to the previous version.

Upd. No. 2 - joyful (not so joyful anymore - has lost its relevance...)

It turns out that there is still a workable method to return the old VKontakte interface even to those who seem to have been left with no options (at least the “prompter” was repeatedly thanked for this method in VK). However, we warn you right away - you will have to perform all actions at your own peril and risk, and there may be a risk. The method of returning the old vk.com design is associated with running scripts, and Netobserver does not guarantee that the body of the script does not contain code capable of stealing user login and password.

Let's consider a really working method, suitable for the Google Chrome browser and its “brothers”, like Yandex.Browser (browsers on the Chromium platform):

So, the method is as follows: find it on Google Playmarket

Install the first plugin in the list:

After installation, the activity of the plugin can be checked by the icon in the upper right corner of the browser:

In the tab that opens, click on the “Install this script” button:

Next, a warning from Tampermonkey will appear stating that only reliable scripts should be run (i.e., it once again warns - you act at your own peril and risk), and the installed script will be displayed:

That's all - the script immediately starts working. All you have to do is go to VKontakte (or refresh the page if you are already there) and make sure for yourself that the good old vk.com is back!

Moreover, the effect will persist both when moving between elements of the VKontakte menu and when logging in again.

This is more convenient than the method that was proposed in the comments to this article (however, I would like to say “Thank you” for this option for solving the question “How to return the old VKontakte design”).

There are also extensions similar to Tampermonkey for other browsers:

• For Ognelis: ;
• for Opera: ;
• at Safari - .

Well, after installing the extension for your browser, return to the step of downloading the user script - and then in order :)

Upd. 3 - for the most persistent.

Dear readers, you have 2 options: accept it and start getting used to the new design (this is difficult, but possible - I say from my own experience), or fight to the end :) The remaining way to fight is to use custom styles. There are several of them currently being developed, and all of them are still very crude. But, as they say, in the absence of fish and...

For enthusiasts who do not give up and are ready to get confused, we have prepared the following recommendations:

1. Using a custom script via Tampermonkey;
2. Using the Stylish browser plugin with style loading(most popular option) .

For those who have already learned to work with Tampermonkey (see description in Upd.2- above in the text), an alternative script is proposed (though very crude), returning some semblance of the old version. There’s probably little point in using it for now, but you can track the changes being made—I’m sure that after a while this custom style will work much better.

https://userstyles.org/styles/userjs/128986/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0 %B7%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD%20%D0%92%D0%9A.user.js

The script will need to be edited. Specifically interested in the following lines (from 7 to 10):

// @include http://new.vk.com/*
// @include https://new.vk.com/*
// @include http://*.new.vk.com/*
// @include https://*.new.vk.com/*

You need to remove "new." on lines 7 and 8, ".new" on lines 9 and 10.

It should look like this:

The Stylish plugin is the most popular option for returning the old VKontakte design

In principle, the algorithm of Stylish is similar to the method of Tampermonkey, with the only difference being that Stylish, unlike the latter, works with styles, not scripts.

Attention: Do not run Tampermonkey with Stylish! Although both plugins are designed to do, in principle, the same thing, it is not a fact that using them together will lead to twice the best result (rather, the fact is that it will not :)).

So, if you have already tested the first method and decide to move on to the second, first deactivate the Tampermonkey plugin.

After installing the extension, you need to make sure that it is activated. For Chrome, the picture will be as follows: an icon with the letter “S” will appear in the upper right corner of the browser:

The next step is to download the style from the developer's website: .

On the page that opens, you will need to use the big green button - it’s hard to miss:

Judging by the speed of releases, the author is trying very hard to eliminate all the currently existing shortcomings. Therefore, I recommend that you bookmark this page so that after a few days (weeks) you can download the modified style for Vkontakte, which will no longer be so crude.

In the meantime, let everything be the same for you as the lucky person who left this review:

Dear readers, if you have alternative methods for solving a return to the old VKontakte design, do not hesitate to leave them in the comments! We are also waiting for feedback from those who were helped by the recommendations presented.

Have a good mood everyone!

Article How to return the old VKontakte design - disable the new version was modified: May 4th, 2017 by Netobserver

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Users want to always have the latest versions of applications on their mobile devices. The fact is that developers try to make their programs convenient and as functional as possible. But customers are not always able to install the latest modifications. Later in the article I will tell you how to update VK on Windows Background if you suddenly encounter one or more errors.

Relatively recently, developers presented new software for the social network VK for the Windows operating system on smartphones. The official statement says that the program has received many changes:

Now using the application will be even more convenient.

Regular update( )

In general, to install a new version of the utility on your device, you just need to contact the appropriate store. Just go to and select the appropriate section.

Update in case of error( )

So, if you want to restore the functionality of the desired program for free, you need to perform several steps:

Important! Some users think that the lock above the photo means there is a problem. But that's not true. This icon indicates the privacy of the photo and that’s it. Reinstalling the solution will not fix the problem. This will not help if the location is requested. This function is disabled in the parameters related to the utility itself.

If the previous method did not help, we try to make additional movements:

If this method also did not help, you can try resetting the parameters. To do this, first save the data, and then go to the “ Settings" And " Device information" After this, you need to enter initial information.

Nowadays, more and more people use the Internet using a smartphone. This is not surprising, since these devices are very mobile and easy to use. That is why many people prefer to go online using their Android device.

One of the most popular sites for Russian Internet users is the VKontakte site, for working with which through mobile devices there is a special application. It is very convenient to use such an application, as it completely adapts this popular network to an Android device.

This application does not stand still, it is constantly updated, its developers add additional functions to it that make its use even more convenient. That is why people who use their mobile to access VKontakte have a completely logical question: how to update VK on their phone? It is this question that we will try to answer in this article.

Why update VK on your phone?

Why do you even need to update the VK application on your phone? Everything here is actually very simple, you need to do this in order to take advantage of all the latest features that developers regularly add to the application. This is very important, since the modern Internet is changing very quickly, so if you want to stay up to date with the latest trends and use truly convenient functionality on your Android device, you should regularly update VK on your smartphone.

A new version of VK for your phone, which you can download at any time absolutely free on your smartphone or tablet, offers its users a constantly updated design, as well as a set of new functions.

With its help, it will be much more convenient to go to your favorite social network and leave various interesting posts on your page. It also greatly simplifies viewing news, commenting on posts and other people's photos, sharing media files and many other details that make using VKontakte even easier.

How to update

To update VK on your Android device, you must first download the new version of the application. Where can this be done? There are actually quite a lot of options, one of the most convenient is using the Google Play service, which is very popular among owners of devices using Android.

To better understand how to do all this, let’s describe this operation step by step:

• Go to Google Play and find the My Applications Tab, click on it (look for it on the top left side).
• After this, you will see which applications are already installed on your Android device, as well as those that require updating.
• Among the applications that require updating, you need to find the VK application, and then click on the update button.
• The application will display information on the Android device screen that it is requesting your identification data; to continue, you must click the Accept button.
• Next, the update download will begin.

All updates after the above steps will be performed automatically.

If you use regular Internet traffic on your Android device, the program may notify you that the size of the downloaded file is excessively large. This message is necessary so that the person downloading it takes into account the fact of a possible overpayment for traffic. That is why it is much more convenient to download an update for VK using a Wi-Fi connection, and this will also save money on your account.

Another possible problem when downloading a VK update for Android is a possible lack of space on the device itself, which your smartphone or tablet will definitely inform you about. In the event that you encounter this problem, you will simply need to clear additional space on your Android device. Just delete the files you don't need or are least valuable to you. It should be noted that in this case it is necessary to delete files located on the internal memory of the phone, since the application is installed there, so deleting files from the SD card will not give the desired effect.

If you don’t have enough space on your smartphone and therefore don’t want to install an update for VK on it, then it’s best to change your mind. The fact is that an update for VK is necessary not only for new functionality and design improvements, it also allows you to correct errors that existed in previous versions. That is why, if you often use this social network and want to access it from your Android device without having any problems, you should definitely download the update.

In addition, having decided to use the latest version of the application for VK, you will not have questions like how to hide VK friends or how to exit VK, since these functions are implemented here very simply and clearly. It is also worth noting that the configuration of the application itself, as well as the parameters of your page, is getting better and better from update to update, which also cannot but rejoice, especially for those who spend a lot of time on this social network.

Bottom line

We hope that now you know exactly how to update VK on your phone, and if necessary. You will have absolutely no problems with this. Therefore, you will be able to use the latest functions of the VK application, which will make using this social network much more convenient.

It’s very easy to update VK on your Android phone. In this case, the procedure is mandatory, because outdated versions may function poorly over time.

You need to update the program on your phone in order to take advantage of all the new functions, because developers are constantly adjusting the site, creating something new and improved for more convenient use.

New version

The new version of the program, which everyone can download to their phone absolutely free, boasts a rewritten code, in addition, the design is completely updated. You can note that the section headings are now blue.

And this is not all the “new things” of the site. At the top of the “news” section, you can use the “Search” and “Recommendations” tabs. You can use the “comments” tab in the “Responses” section. Previously, all this could only be done by swiping the screen on the right side.

User profiles have also expanded; they display all the same information as on the web version. The changes also affected the music listening mode; the audio player now contains song lyrics and album covers.

Update

It is extremely easy to download updates on Android. How to update VK on an Android phone:

1. To do this, you need to go to the standard application for all Android smartphones - Google Play. This store of programs and applications is the most convenient place to download updates.
2. On the top left you need to click on the menu and select the “My Applications” tab.
3. Next, you will see which applications are installed on the phone, and at the very top those that require updating will be indicated.
4. We look for the VK application among them and click “update”.
5. The application will display a notification that it will have access to identification data; you need to click the “accept” button.
6. After this, the update will begin downloading.
7. The program is updated automatically at this stage.

If you use regular Internet traffic, the application may notify you that the downloaded file is too large. This is necessary so that the user knows that there may be a delay or overpayment for traffic. It is best to update VK while Wi-Fi is connected, this will save money on traffic.

It is possible that there is little space left on your phone. In this case, the application will also display a notification that the update could not be downloaded.
Then you will need to clear space on your phone in order for the update to install. You can delete games, music or photos. Unnecessary files are deleted from the phone’s internal memory, because all applications are installed only here, and not on the SD card.

But even if there is not enough space, try to free it up, because updates are responsible for the correct operation of the application. The purpose of new versions is not only to come up with innovations, but also to correct errors in old versions. After the application has installed the update, the program can be used again.