Social networking giant Facebook is utilized by one and all to be in contact with our good friends, associates, household and liked one's. With social media we always require some privacy and Facebook provides us the very same by means of Personal privacy Settings.Privacy settings in Facebook assist the users to hide or lock their profile images and other photos from public or particular people.This setting is quite necessary to use looking at the increase in users of Facebook so that unidentified user/stranger is not able to get access to your profile photo or other albums.However, even after utilizing this setting there is a way where one can view surprise profile picture in Facebook.In this post we are going to share How To View Private Facebook Profiles 2018.



There are two methods to attain this and view anyone's profile photo in Facebook despite the fact that they may have locked them.

How To View Private Facebook Profiles 2018

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

Approach 1- View Hidden Profile Image in Facebook.

• Log in to your Facebook account


• Go to the Profile of the user whose profile picture you desire 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 new Tab) you like.

Modify the URL-Remove the part in the URL beginning from "/ 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 Picture 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 Go into or simply Hit Get in if you copied and modified the URL in address bar itself.

There you go! You will view complete surprise private profile photo of the Facebook user whose Profile Photo URL you copied.

Approach 2- View Hidden Profile Image in Facebook.

• In this technique, you need to know the User ID of the user whose profile image you want to see.


• Log in to your Facebook account and go to the Profile of the user whose profile picture you want to see.


• 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 go to the following website-


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


• Go into the Facebook profile URL of the user whose profile picture you want to view and click Find Numeric Id.


• Utilize the User Id in the below link.

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

For example, if user id is 1111111 then you modify the above connect to-.

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

• Copy this link in URL address bar of your browser and Hit Get in.

With these 2 techniques you can How To View Private Facebook Profiles 2018 of anyone.However this was just for helpful function and you should not view others individual information.

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