Social media network giant Facebook is utilized by one and all to be in contact with our pals, associates, family and loved one's. With social media we always need some personal privacy and Facebook supplies us the very same by means of Personal privacy Settings.Privacy settings in Facebook help the users to conceal or lock their profile pictures and other images from public or particular people.This setting is quite necessary to utilize looking at the increase in users of Facebook so that unknown user/stranger is not able to obtain access to your profile image or other albums.However, after using this setting there is a way where one can see surprise profile picture in Facebook.In this article we are going to share How To View A Private Facebook Profile 2018.



There are 2 ways to achieve this and see anybody's profile picture in Facebook despite the fact that they may have locked them.

How To View A Private Facebook Profile 2018

Approach 1 has stopped working after an upgrade to Facebook API in June 2015. However, Approach 2 is working completely great.

Approach 1- View Hidden Profile Image in Facebook.

• Log in to your Facebook account


• Go to the Profile of the user whose profile photo you desire to view


• Right click the Profile Picture and select Copy Image URL

Paste the URL anywhere( MS Word, Note pad or in address bar in new Tab) you like.

Edit the URL-Remove the part in the URL beginning from "/ hprofile-ak" till "160 × 160".

For example if the URL is-.

https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-1/p160x160/385743_10151157205939407_1558287225_n.jpg?oh=c169ad2252b3d0c96c8591334bc8c0a8&oe=54BA81B8&__gda__=1425577842_534791d8cbd55aa5b51832a09f1a7259.

Note: If you copy this URL paste it in URL address bar and Struck Enter you will see the Profile Image in little measurement( 160 X 160) as in Facebook profile of that user.

Change/Edit this to-.

https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/385743_10151157205939407_1558287225_n.jpg?oh=c169ad2252b3d0c96c8591334bc8c0a8&oe=54BA81B8&__gda__=1425577842_534791d8cbd55aa5b51832a09f1a7259.

If you observe "/ hprofile-ak-xfa1/ v/t1.0 -1/ p160x160" is eliminated from the above URL.

• Copy the edited URL and paste in URL Address Bar.Hit Go into or just Struck Go into if you copied and modified the URL in address bar itself.

There you go! You will see complete concealed personal profile picture of the Facebook user whose Profile Image URL you copied.

Approach 2- View Hidden Profile Picture in Facebook.

• In this approach, you have to understand the User ID of the user whose profile photo you wish to view.


• Log in to your Facebook account and visit the Profile of the user whose profile image you wish to view.


• When viewing his/her profile in the address bar you can see the username of the user.

• You can follow our article on find Facebook User ID or check out the following site-


• Get Facebook User id from username to obtain the User id from the Username.


• Enter the Facebook profile URL of the user whose profile image you wish to see and click Find Numerical Id.


• Use the User Id in the below link.

http://graph.facebook.com/userid/picture?width=2000&height=2000.

For instance, if user id is 1111111 then you customize the above connect to-.

http://graph.facebook.com/1111111/picture?width=2000&height=2000.

• Copy this link in URL address bar of your web browser and Struck Enter.

With these 2 methods you can How To View A Private Facebook Profile 2018 of anyone.However this was just for helpful function and you should not see others individual data.

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