Social media network giant Facebook is utilized by one and all to be in contact with our friends, colleagues, family and enjoyed one's. With social networks we always require some personal privacy and Facebook provides us the exact same by means of Personal privacy Settings.Privacy settings in Facebook help the users to hide or lock their profile images and other photos from public or specific people.This setting is pretty required to use looking at the boost in users of Facebook so that unknown user/stranger is not able to obtain access to your profile picture or other albums.However, after using this setting there is a method where one can view concealed profile picture in Facebook.In this post we are going to share View Private Facebook Profiles.



There are 2 ways to achieve this and view anyone's profile picture in Facebook although they might have locked them.

View Private Facebook Profiles

Approach 1 has actually stopped working after an update to Facebook API in June 2015. However, Approach 2 is working perfectly fine.

Approach 1- View Hidden Profile Photo in Facebook.

• Log in to your Facebook account


• Go to the Profile of the user whose profile picture you wish to see


• Right click the Profile Picture and choose Copy Image URL

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

Modify the URL-Remove the part in the URL beginning with "/ hprofile-ak" till "160 × 160".

For instance 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 small 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 removed from the above URL.

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

There you go! You will see complete hidden personal profile image of the Facebook user whose Profile Picture URL you copied.

Approach 2- View Hidden Profile Image in Facebook.

• In this technique, you have to understand the User ID of the user whose profile picture you wish to see.


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


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

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


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


• Get in the Facebook profile URL of the user whose profile picture you wish to view and click Find Numerical Id.


• Utilize the User Id in the listed below link.

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

For example, 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 Hit Go into.

With these two techniques you can View Private Facebook Profiles of anyone.However this was just for informative purpose and you must not see others individual information.

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