VKontakte has radically changed its design. How to use it?

Is it possible to change the design of VKontakte in the mobile version?

In the official VKontakte application there is no option to change the theme. You can only change some interface elements: font size, information display, etc. There are also most profile privacy settings. Perhaps developers will notice the need for this and will allow everyone to make changes to the design of their page in future versions of the mobile client. For now, we can just wait.

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Kate Mobile - will replace the theme in the VK application on Android

Since the original VKontakte mobile application does not allow us to change the color palette of our page, we will use other programs for this. Today, the most popular alternative solution for visiting VK on phones is the Kate Mobile program. You can find it in the Android store - Google Play. Enter the name in the search bar and click the “Install” button on the application page.

Kate Mobile has implemented a large number of non-standard functions for the VK profile. Surely you have heard about “invisibility”. With this feature, you have the ability to visit a page and read incoming messages without your friends and visitors noticing. The program has another useful function - removing restrictions on listening to music through the application. Now let's get back to the topics. We will assume that you have already installed Kate Mobile on your device.

Home page of the Kate Mobile website

If you have problems with Google's Play Market, use the website https://katemobile.org/.

Launch the application, log in to VKontakte;
On the home page, click the three dots at the top. In the window, select the “Settings” line;
Kate Mobile Settings
Next, open the “Appearance” item;
“Appearance” in Kate Mobile settings
Click on “Theme” and you will see a list of themes that you can apply to your VK profile.
Select “Theme” to change the theme for VK
Select the theme checkbox and click OK. The application will ask for permission to restart. Confirm it, and if the reboot does not start automatically, close and reopen the program manually. There are over a dozen different themes to choose from, including night.

Choosing a theme in the Kate Mobile app
The dark theme is especially beneficial for your vision at night. The black background is easy on the eyes, and you can chat with friends for a long time.

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Orbitum - will help you change the background in Vkontat on your phone

A convenient program for customizing VKontakte is the Orbitum browser for phones and PCs. It can be installed on many platforms, including Android. To download it, go to the Play Store again and use the search bar to find and download the program. When we first launch it, the browser tells us that it is capable of changing themes in VK—that’s what we need. Moreover, this is one of the programs that allows you to apply a huge number of themes.

See for yourself:

On the main page of the Orbitum browser, select the VKontakte tab;
It will automatically show you a button to open a section with themes for VK;
Changing the VK theme in the Orbitum browser
You just need to select a topic category from the available ones. There are only 6 categories. Moreover, some have more than 15 different images that can be set as a VK theme on your Android phone.
Topic categories in the Orbitum browser

Select a topic and log in. Enjoy viewing social network pages without advertising, with a new theme and other important functions that the standard VK client does not have. You can customize your browser beyond recognition. Add panels of any search engine, change the theme of the navigator elements.

The official website of the Orbitum browser is located at https://orbitum.com/ru/.

Catalogs with ready-made themes

If you don’t want to come up with a design yourself, then check out the selection of ready-made themes in special catalogs. For example, the Get-Styles website (link to it is https://get-styles.ru/). Let's consider working with the resource:

Open Get Styles and select the theme you like. You can sort materials by categories, top and comments.

Next to the design, click on the “Apply” button.

A window will appear confirming the installation of the extension.

After this, the following message will appear on the site page.

All that remains is to go to the social network and check if this is true. As you can see, the design has changed to the one chosen from the Get-Styles website.

All methods described in this article are suitable for browsers on desktop computers and laptops. On Android phones and iPhones, you must use other methods.

Night social network theme for smartphones

If you want to change the color of your VK profile to dark tones, then you can download a special application from the Play Market. It already has a built-in black theme and you don’t have to look for other solutions to delve into the settings. The program can be downloaded from the link.

This is a regular VK client with several non-standard features:

Users will be able to activate a mode that will automatically change the color of your VK profile according to the time of day;
Built-in invisibility and offline mode;
You can use several accounts in parallel;
Setting the chat background;
Find out when your friends visited the page and from what device.

How to change the VK interface on a computer

Most likely, you already know that in the web version of VKontakte you also do not have the ability to change the theme. But here we use a browser to open the profile. This means that you can still change the background. And for this you will need browser extensions. The list of installed extensions is in the menu. For example, in Google Chrome you can find them like this:

Click the three dots at the top of the toolbar;
Select "More tools";
On the left side of the window, click “Extensions”;
Here you can remove it if you no longer need it;
In the same window at the top, select the three stripes with the cursor and the “Open store” link will appear at the bottom.

Clicking it will take you to the Chrome extensions market. In the line at the top, enter “VKontakte Background”. And opposite the extension, click the “Install” button.

Installing the extension in Google Chrome “VKontakte Background”

A small VKontakte icon will appear at the top of the browser panel. By clicking on it, a block with application settings will appear.

You can:

Set the time for automatic VK background change;
Adjust the outline of the site, add blur, stroke thickness, etc.;
Add transparency to the main page so that the background underneath is visible;
Change the pictures that are offered for the background. To do this, you need to select one of them with the cursor.
Settings for the VKontakte Background extension

Installing the plugin

First you need to install the extension. Let's look at the process using the Google Chrome browser as an example. The instructions are also suitable for Yandex Browser, Opera and Mozilla Firefox:

Open a browser on your computer and go to the side menu. In it, select “Additional tools” and click on “Extensions”.

A list of installed add-ons will appear on the screen. Click on the marked button.

In the search bar, enter the query “wallpaper for vk”.

Open the plugin called “Custom wallpaper in VK” and click the “Install” button.

To change the background image, you need to find a suitable picture on the Internet and right-click on it. In the menu that opens, select “Set as VK background”.

Now you need to change the parameters of saturation, transparency, etc. To do this, you need to open the “Options” of the plugin.

Here you can enable/disable the display of the image, set transparency, stroke, color, etc.

There is now a nice graphic in the background, but the theme of the site is still white. It can be changed using another extension.

For example, install the Dark Style VK add-on to make the design dark:

Open the extension store again according to the previous instructions. In the search bar we look for Dark Style VK and install it.

We confirm the installation.

After installation, “Dark Style” will automatically be applied to your page.

You can replace the black design with the standard one by removing the plugin from the browser. There are tons of similar extensions in the free catalogue. What if you want to do something unique and customize the design for yourself?

Get-Style application for changing the theme on VKontakte

On the website https://get-styles.ru/ you can see a large number of themes for the VKontakte social network. This site exists to provide users with various unique backgrounds. This is perhaps the largest archive of backgrounds for VK. When visiting the site, pay attention to the menu on the left. These are the categories of backgrounds. And next to the category name is the number of topics in it. To install the Get Style extension in your browser, you need to click the “Download” button on the block on the right. Allow your browser to install it. After this, register on the site.

There are a large number of topics, but not all of them are available for use. The site organizes a rating of visitors and everyone has their own points. For registration you receive 5 points. To earn more, add your unique topics. Despite this, most topics are accessible to everyone. If you like animations, choose one of these categories. The extension is supported by most popular browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, Opera.

If your browser in which you want to install Get Style has other extensions related to VK, you will need to remove them. Since it is not compatible with applications for the same purpose. The theme is selected on the site from the visitor’s profile. Then open the social network page and make sure that the interface colors have changed. This method of changing the theme in VK is significantly different from the process for an Android phone.

VKontakte has radically changed its design. How to use it?

Miscellaneous 10/17/2019 | 0

Today, October 17, 2020, the Russian social network VKontakte introduced an innovation that no one expected at all, because no one even thought that something like this could happen in the near future. The fact is that the social network has radically changed the design of its proprietary application for smartphones, which now looks much more minimalistic. If earlier this could be seen in the presence of blue color throughout the entire interface, now mostly a neutral light color scheme is used, due to which the application is very similar to the latest versions of Instagram and Facebook. Moreover, the interface has also changed a lot, making it better than before.

A special tab with friends in the VK Mobile application is now displayed instead of notifications, and the page with interesting posts of some people or communities has been replaced with various services of the social network, which will thus promote them among a potential audience. If we talk about the profile page, now this one is very similar to the Facebook profile page, because the page address is even displayed at the top. On the right side of the application there is now a sidebar that contains various elements, namely “Bookmarks”, “Documents”, “Story Archive”, “Money Transfers” and “Settings”.

If previously all the dialogues on the message page were divided using special gray stripes, now there is not a trace of them left, and this is direct evidence that the VKontakte social network really strived for maximum minimalism when developing its corporate appearance. The new design also has some other features that make the VK Mobile application look more modern. To access this you need to scan a special QR code that is distributed by the developers. This is extremely easy to do. You need to open the social network application and go to the “Interesting” tab, and then, after that, click on the corresponding button in the upper left corner.

As soon as the code is scanned, the new appearance will be applied, but for this, the VKontakte application for smartphones based on Android and iOS must already be updated to the newest latest version available in the Google Play and App Store. In this unusual, but very simple way, the company invites everyone to take part in testing the updated appearance, which in a few weeks or months may become the main one, and therefore it will be turned on for all users by default. Obviously, the social network wants to get user feedback on the new look of the branded application before releasing it to the market to the entire audience.

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