Facebook Private Profile Viewer

StalkFace Private profiles

Paste a Facebook profile link below. A locked or private profile hides most of a timeline, but never all of it, and StalkFace builds the search links for the parts that are still public.

Attention: this tool does not violate Facebook's privacy settings. 'Only me' stays 'Only me'. It only shows hidden content you have access to.
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What this opens

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What a private Facebook profile still shows

Facebook has no single private switch. A profile is a set of sections, each with its own audience, so a private profile usually means a person who set most of them to Friends. Even then, a few things stay visible to everyone: the name, the current profile picture, the current cover photo, and whatever public posts, tagged photos and liked Pages they never revisited.

Paste the profile link above and press the button. Each link opens one section, and Facebook shows what your account is allowed to see. On a carefully locked-down profile that may be the profile picture and the mutual friends. On the average private profile it is a good deal more, because the tagged photos and the liked Pages belong to other people's audience settings.

Private profile versus locked profile

Profile lock is the strong version, available in India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Egypt, Vietnam and a growing list of countries. It hides the full-size profile picture, moves every older public post to friends-only, limits the About page and turns on tag review in one step. A locked profile shows a non-friend almost nothing, and there is no way around it that does not involve being added as a friend.

A private profile outside those countries is put together by hand, and hands miss things. That is where the tagged photos, the public comments and the check-ins made by friends come in.

What no site can do

Sites that promise to unlock a private profile want a login or a payment. They have nothing behind the button.

Common questions

Can this open a private or locked Facebook profile?

No, and no tool can. Anything set to Only me or Friends stays hidden. What this does is gather the parts of a locked profile that are still public, which is usually more than people expect.

Why do I still see a profile picture on a locked account?

Because Facebook keeps profile and cover photos public by default, even in Locked Profile mode. The person has to change that separately.

Someone else tagged them. Can I see that?

Sometimes. A tagged photo follows the privacy of whoever posted it, not the person tagged. If their friend posted it publicly, it stays public.

Can I see a private profile's photos through tagged photos?

Sometimes. Photos other people uploaded and tagged them in follow the uploader's audience, and a friend's public album shows them regardless of their own settings.

Is there a way to see a locked profile?

Only as a friend. Profile lock is enforced by Facebook on every section at once, and nothing outside Facebook can change what it sends you.

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