Bookmarks in VK received a significant update of functionality in 2022, which appeared not only in the classic version, but also in the mobile version. Now the system clearly distinguishes between “likes” and favorite content, which the user can add, delete or mark with an individual category for personal convenience at any time. This change has a positive effect on appearance and makes working with the social network much more comfortable.
To fully understand the changes, consider:
- how to activate the “Bookmarks” section in the browser;
- how to view posts of different categories;
- Is it possible to save the person?
- Is it possible to view the saved records of another user;
- similar functionality in the application from the phone.
VKontakte bookmarks, what is it
Hello, friends! If you often use the Internet, then you need to know how to work more effectively with this or that information. For example, you found something on the Internet, and then after a while you lost sight of the desired video or post. In this case, bookmarks are very helpful. It should be said that bookmarks can be used not only on VKontakte, but also in browsers.
So what is it? Bookmarks are a place to store any information. Be it videos, pictures, various posts, and so on. Next, we will fully reveal the question, where are the VKontakte bookmarks? Then we use this VK function in practice.
How to view someone else's favorites?
Important! You won’t be able to view your friend’s bookmarks on VK. This option is not supported by the developer, as it was not conceived during the creation of the social network. Featured materials are personal files that are accessible only to the user.
- If you are faced with an offer to view someone else’s “Favorites”, be careful, most likely these are scammers;
- Do not agree to such services and do not transfer funds to third parties so as not to lose money and personal data.
You can view someone else’s “Favorites” only in one case - ask a friend to show you which tabs he saves on a separate page.
Let's move on to the most important question - how to clear bookmarks in VK all at once or separately!
VKontakte bookmarks, where they are and how to set them up
Before you work with bookmarks in VK, you need to configure them so that they appear on the left side of your page. The setup is simple. Log in to VKontakte, click on your avatar and select “Settings”. Next, look for the following item in the general settings sections – “Customize the display of menu items.” After this, a list of various functions will be displayed on the screen. In the specified list, bookmarks are displayed as a star icon.
Check the box next to it and click “Save”. Then your bookmarks will be active. (Screen 1).
So, where are the VKontakte bookmarks? Usually they can be seen on the left side of your VK account (Screen 2).
And their name is the same as it was in the menu - “Bookmarks”. Now that we have activated this function, let’s move on to using it.
What is this?
First, let's find the answer to the question, what are bookmarks in VK, why is this tool needed? This is an opportunity to save important, interesting and necessary content in a separate tab, and to structure it.
The main purpose of the function is user convenience! Didn't have time to read the article or watch the video? Do you want to postpone an item? This is for you!
Sorting by section occurs automatically. The user can select one of the following tabs:
- All;
- People;
- Communities;
- Records;
- Articles;
- Links;
- Podcasts;
- Video;
- Plots;
- Goods
A cool innovation has appeared - now tags help set up bookmarks in VK! You create categories yourself that allow you to separate your favorite materials, for example:
- Important;
- Watch later.
Add other tags yourself to make sorting your favorites easier!
A little useful advice. Every user can make bookmarks on VK, but first you should pay attention to the privacy settings:
- Articles are not available to a limited circle of people;
- You cannot add communities if you are not on the list of participants;
- The pages of blocked and deleted users are hidden;
- Deleted products automatically disappear.
We’ve sorted out the definition – everything is obvious and simple. Let's talk about how to go to VKontakte bookmarks from your computer and phone and look through them.
VKontakte bookmarks, how to work with them
Working with VKontakte bookmarks is not that difficult. You can add not only posts to them, but also people, groups, and other data that interest you. It is also possible to clear bookmarks of unnecessary posts. Next, we'll take a look at the entire basic bookmarking workflow.
Perhaps they will help you while working on a social network, quickly save this or that information.
How to add a person to your VKontakte bookmarks
You can add a person to your bookmarks on VK with one click of the mouse. Go to someone else’s page, your friend whom you want to add, and click on the “Actions” button under his main photo. Next, a menu will drop down where a button such as “Save to bookmarks” will appear (Screen 3).
To check whether you have added this user, go to the “Bookmarks” section that we have installed and look at the “Recent” category, they display the entire list of users (Screen 4).
These are the ones that were added to our bookmark.
How to bookmark a group
If you liked any VKontakte group, you can also save it to your bookmarks. We do it this way. We go to the page of a particular group. To add a group, click the “More” button, which is on the right and then look where it says “Save to bookmarks”. Click and save (Screen 5).
It is important to note that the group itself will not appear in your bookmarks. It will appear in the Recent section at the bottom right side.
How to add a post to VKontakte bookmarks
Most often, posts are saved from the VK news feed, or from any groups. How to bookmark a post? We select any news, then point at the arrow at the top of the post, and after the word complain, click “Save to bookmarks” (Screen 6).
After that, it will be automatically added to them.
Where to find bookmarks in VK on your phone
This issue is also relevant when working with smartphones. Here the process is carried out in an identical way. You can see the list of “likes” given:
- Opening the news feed;
- By selecting the “Like” item in the menu to select the displayed content.
There is no additional sorting by post type.
The tab with bookmarks does not need to be opened additionally; it is initially provided in the interface of the mobile application for smartphones. Go to your personal profile page and click on the “Bookmarks” section. The functionality here is identical to the full version. Here you can add:
- user or group records;
- articles;
- video;
- links to third party contacts or sites;
- podcasts;
- goods.
How to clear VKontakte bookmarks
You can clear your VKontakte bookmarks from unnecessary posts and friends using standard methods. Let's look at them. Let's start by clearing posts. Go to “Bookmarks”. Next, click on the three dots at the top of the post and click on the “Remove from bookmarks” button. In this case, your post will be completely deleted (Screen 7).
To remove people from bookmarks, click on the “People” item in the right control section and hover over them with the mouse in the same way, then over the three dots that appear in the photo and “Remove from bookmarks.” Using this option for clearing bookmarks, you can remove them from groups, links, articles, and much more. Exactly what you added there.
How to bookmark a person
As before, you can bookmark another person. For this it is enough:
- Go to his page;
- Click on the button with “three dots” under the profile image (for the computer version) or call up the page management menu (for smartphones);
- Click on the “Add to bookmarks” item.
These will be displayed to the user in a separate “Pages” menu, which is located in the right corner of the “Bookmarks” section (computer version), or displayed at the top of the “Bookmarks” section on mobile devices.
Other VKontakte updates
Shortly before the Bookmarks section was updated, podcasts were introduced. They allow you to listen to materials that were previously only available in text format. For example, you follow the popular communities “vDud” or “Meduza”. Previously, their news could only be read. Today you can turn on listening and hear the news in audio format. Podcasts are available in over 100 communities.
You can play podcasts through your phone, laptop, computer and listen to them in the background. There are no time limits here. You can also share a link to a particular podcast, as well as a specific episode. If you suddenly pause to exit the subway or pay for purchases at the supermarket, you can always play the audio from the same place you left off. If you are subscribed to a news group that has the ability to create podcasts, then along with a text news notification. You will also receive news about a new podcast, which you can find in the group section of the same name.
Updating VK videos
Along with podcasts, VKontakte administrators decided to update video recordings for mobile devices. Now users can rewind video in one motion. In order to move the video timeline forward 10 seconds, you need to touch the right side of the screen twice. Conversely, if you want to go back 10 seconds, tap the left edge. Slowing down or speeding up video is also now available. You can also choose the video quality yourself. If bookmarks on the VKontakte network have disappeared in the mobile version, you can find them in the news section.
Is there a mirror site for VKontakte?
Old-timers of the social network remember the site with the domain durov.ru. This is an alternative project by the creator of VKontakte Pavel Durov, an English version of the main site. If you believe the rumors, you could log in to it using an account from a Russian-language social network, after which a menu similar to VKontakte would open and you could select the “bookmarks” tab. It displayed not only the users you added, but also those who added you. If today you enter “durov.ru” in the address bar, you will be taken to the main page of VKontakte and will not notice anything unusual. “It turns out that you won’t be able to find out who has me in your VKontakte bookmarks this way?” - you ask disappointed. Indeed, this is impossible now. Remember that all advertisements for “new” sites like this one are distributed by scammers. When you enter such a resource, the system will ask you to enter your login and password for your page. If after this procedure your profile is stolen, you shouldn’t be too surprised.
Finding bookmarks in VK dialogues
When communicating with interesting people, we save important information through a notepad. But VKontakte has a function for saving messages through “Mark as important”. In fact, on VK they are called “Important messages”. This time, let's look at how to bookmark important messages and where to find them later.
- Go to the "Dialogues" section.
- Select the user with whom you are communicating and go to the dialogue page with him.
- Near the desired message, click on the “Mark as important” star:
- After this, the message will be saved in the “Favorites” section.
- To view such saved messages, go to the main section “Messages” and click on the star on top of them:
- A modal window will appear with all the messages that you have marked as “Important”:
- To go to the message itself, click on the arrow on the right “>”.
How is the list formed?
Another important point. Previously, in order for a message, photo or music to appear in this section, you just had to like it. Now it's done differently:
- Scroll through your feed and as soon as you see something you like, stop.
- Click the symbol in the top right corner of the message. On a PC it’s a tick, on a smartphone it’s three dots.
- From the menu that appears, select “Save to Bookmarks.”
- And you already know how to access this section.
However, if out of habit you simply liked the information you need, it is not loaded into your VK bookmarks and, accordingly, is not displayed there. But don’t rush to get upset, you can’t lose this either. There is another section where all these messages are moved. These are called “likes”, and they are not difficult to find:
- On a computer it is in the menu on the right.
- On the phone it is in the main menu (three horizontal lines).
Your VKontakte bookmarks go here. From “Like” you can easily move information to the desired section so that it is no longer lost.
Favorites in VK
In addition to the interesting and very useful function of bookmarks, VKontakte has another section for saving any materials from VK and not only - it is called “ Favorites ”. It appeared not so long ago, in the first half of 2022 after the next global update. Although active users have known it as a personal correspondence with themselves for a long time.
VK users who previously saved some useful posts, publications, links, or generally any materials from VKontakte into a dialogue with themselves noticed that this dialogue is now called “ Favorites ” in the mobile version. After some time, the innovation appeared in the desktop version.
This is still the same personal message with yourself, which is in the list of chats with friends and group dialogues, which opens by clicking on the “ Messenger ” section. The Favorites dialog tends to move down if you frequently chat with different friends or receive newsletters from groups you follow. But it’s easy to find it in a search using the key query “favorites” or, if you enter your first and last name, by which your profile in VK is displayed.
In the same way, when scrolling through your VKontakte feed, or if you liked a picture, a post, or any content in VK in general, you can add it to your Favorites.
How to add to favorites on VK:
- Using the example of an interesting publication in the news feed, click on the arrow “Share"under the note.
- From the pop-up menu, click on the item “Favorites».
- You can add comments to saved content.
- Press the button "Send».
Where can I find missing bookmarks on VKontakte?
In October, VKontakte users encountered a problem. All their bookmarks have disappeared somewhere. After some time they were restored. Although they can no longer be found in their usual place. Now all bookmarks are in the “News” section. They can be found by clicking on the “Like” item.
With this innovation, the developers removed one section from the main menu in order to leave only important ones in it.
A little below the sections of the news block there are special filters by which you can find the material you need.
- Video recordings.
- Goods.
- Comments.
- Photos.
- Records.
To enable one of the filters, uncheck the remaining boxes. Leave, for example, videos and in the results you will see only videos for which you left your likes.
Official version
The development team has been saying for quite some time that Contact will never have open “guests” - people who visited the page. On the one hand, this is convenient, because without embarrassment you can view the profiles of everyone, even those people to whom we would not like to show our attention. To make it more convenient to go directly to a page of interest, a bookmarking service was invented. You don’t know how to bookmark VKontakte? Everything is very simple: you need to go to the person’s page and select the corresponding button under the avatar. You can add an unlimited number of all users to bookmarks, no matter whether you have them as friends or not. Just like the guest list, people who have bookmarked you cannot be viewed. There are special applications, but their effectiveness is low, because the user himself must allow the publication of his page statistics.
How to see your favorite posts
Previously, all the publications you liked were automatically saved in bookmarks. Now the bookmarks are highlighted in another section, and all the posts you liked (posts, photos, videos, etc.) are displayed in a separate tab - “Like”.
access the “Like” feed on the news feed page by clicking on the tab with the corresponding name in the menu on the right.
All publications in the liked feed can be sorted by type: posts, comments, photos, videos and products.
Programs for viewing guests and bookmarks
Question: “Who has me bookmarked on VKontakte?” - worries many netizens. And if there is demand, there will be supply. In addition to VK clone sites, it is easy to find links to download special programs on the World Wide Web. Their developers promise not only to show bookmarks, but also to all visitors to the page. Is it really that easy to find out VKontakte bookmarks? The developers of the social network categorically do not recommend installing third-party software on your computer to work with your website. Almost all clients and programs for Contact are dangerous viruses that can not only steal authorization data, but also damage the computer’s operating system. Those that do not cause serious harm are simply useless. You say: “It turns out that you won’t be able to find out who has me in their VKontakte bookmarks?” Probably yes. There are currently no technical methods available to all users. We can only be content with our own guesses on this matter. If you are sure that you have identified someone close to you, you can always just come up and ask: “Is it true that I’m in your bookmarks?”
This method stopped working, Pavel Durov closed his website Durov.ru. There are no other ways, but if they tell you otherwise, they will simply want to scam you or gain access to your page. You can find out who visits your page through the popular application “My Guests and Fans”. You can also make a link there and place it anywhere on the page, if someone comes to you and clicks on it, you will know about it.
I advise you to watch the video: How to find out who unfriended you, or who has you as a VKontakte subscriber!
