A new version ( new design, appearance, design) VKontakte appeared in April 2016. The old one existed for a very long time and is outdated. At first, during the trial period, each user could turn on the new version for himself, and if he didn’t like something, then return to the old one.
How did you turn on the new version of VK?
At first it was like this: the person who wanted to open it himself opened the news on the VK blog and at the very end of the page clicked "Join testing."
You could also enable the new version using the link “Use the new version of the site as default” in the left column of the site, at the bottom (if you open VK on a computer and not on a phone).
How did you enable the old version?
You could return the old one back there, at the very bottom of the narrow left column of the site, a pale gray link. It was called "Return to old version site." Then not everyone had it, and even later it disappeared completely. Read on:
Why did the new version turn on by itself and how to get back?
Since June 9, 2016, some VK users (approximately 10 percent) received the new version forcibly, that is, it turned on itself, and they could no longer return to the old one. You could also be one of these users. There was nothing you could do about it, you could only get used to it, because a person gets used to everything. The best option- take changes calmly. Some time will pass, and the old version will already seem inconvenient to you. And in any case, the developers of the VK site would not be able to support the old version for a long time.
This was the beginning of a mass transfer of all VK users to the new version. Here is the official news about it. Those who did not fall into the mentioned 10% could still switch to the new version and back to the old one for some time, but from August 17, VKontakte completely switched to a new version, it turned on itself for everyone without the possibility of returning to the old one.
Since then, due to numerous requests from users, some changes have been made (changed the font, left the ability to use dialogs similar to those in the old version, etc.). But in general, there will never be a return to the old version. Most likely it no longer exists.
How to return the old version of dialogues?
Go to “Messages” and find the gear icon at the bottom - . Click on it and select "Go to classic interface." After this you will have dialogues like in the old version. To go back to the new version, click on the gear in the same way and select "Go to the new interface."
New version on the phone too?
By new version we mean full version site that people use on computers and tablets. This does not apply to the VK application for phones, which is developed and updated separately (see How to download VK to your phone). Is there some more mobile version the VK website, which also exists separately, but it gradually borrowed many elements from the new “full” version.
How to return the old version of the VK mobile application on your phone?
You can install the old version mobile application manually, this is described here:
The old version may not have music playing. No one guarantees that older versions of the application will work at all. The VK administration can disable them. You can turn it off in the future automatic update, and the application will not update.
A better option is to get used to the new version of the application. When something new comes out, there are always people who don't like it. This was the case with the new version of the VKontakte website - many promised to leave VK forever, but they are still sitting there just fine. It's all a matter of habit.
Who doesn't like the new version of VKontakte?
Not everyone likes the new version of VKontakte. Many people demand to return the previous version, which they consider more convenient. Some argue that the new design is too similar to Facebook and even Odnoklassniki. Users even created an online petition demanding that the old version be preserved and given the “right to choose” (this did not affect anything). Online petitions are often created for various reasons and thanks to them, information is disseminated very widely. But in reality, the petition has never helped anyone. When the noise subsides, everyone forgets about her.
VKontakte laughed at its users who promised to leave if they did not return the old version. A month after their promise, they still continued to use VK ().
It is known that some people always greet any major update with hostility, since changing old habits is too painful for them. But over time they calm down.
Our instructions will help you quickly navigate the new version of VKontakte: Where in the new version of VKontakte are the settings, my answers, music, birthdays, logout, statistics...?
Please write below in the comments what you think about the new version of VKontakte! Your opinion is important.
Why is it important? When you express your opinion, it will become easier, you will release your negativity. True, 92% of people will not read this, but will immediately look for where to write - they don’t care. Congratulations if you're reading this! If you really want to contact VKontakte employees and ask them to return the old version, try contacting their support service - but we don’t think this will affect anything.
What happened to VKontakte music? Why is it paid now?
There have long been rumors that a paid music subscription will appear in the VK application. At the end of April 2017, VK decided to transfer music listeners to the Boom application, which has a paid subscription. The application belongs to the partner Mail.ru Group, which includes VKontakte itself. The music section in VK has changed - playlists and advertising have appeared. In the VK application for Android, music caching has disappeared (you can no longer save music and listen to it without the Internet). Why did all this happen? The fact is that if everyone listens to music for free, musicians will have nothing to eat and they will have to leave for another job. Therefore, this could not continue indefinitely. You can express your outrage right here in the comments. Be sure to share this page with your friends!
This is how VKontakte representatives answer questions about free music in the application.
As you know, not all updates are equally useful, so some applications with updates work very poorly, and sometimes even refuse to work at all. The thought arises - why not remove the updates?
Alas, operating system Android does not allow you to remove downloaded updates for applications. However, there are exceptions. For example, some application is built into the firmware. In our case, this is the Google Chrome browser. Since the application is “hardwired” into the firmware, it is impossible to remove it without root rights, but it can be updated using Google Play. After the update, the “Delete” button will appear.
No, you won’t be able to delete applications by clicking on it, but you can delete all updates by clicking on the OK button.
Of course, this only applies to some applications that cannot be removed without root rights, including Google services.
There is another option. Go to the applications section.
Select an app, then tap Uninstall Updates.
Confirm the removal of updates.
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Step-by-step instructions for removing app updates on Android
- 1 Uninstalling updates
- 2 Setting up Android update
When you turn on Wi-Fi, most Android devices start downloading software and game updates. The process is useful, but sometimes updating on Android causes the application to start working incorrectly. In this case, Android device users begin to wonder how to remove updates and return programs to a working state.
Uninstalling updates
You can only remove updates from built-in Android applications - Google Chrome, Play Market. If you are looking for how to uninstall a third-party program update on Android, then you will be disappointed. The only working way is to uninstall the application itself, and then find and install its old version.
You can search for old versions on sites like 4pda - there you can find any popular program for Android. Downloading installation files from other portals is more dangerous, but it is also possible, especially if the site has been verified by other users. To prevent a remote application from being updated immediately after installation, you need to configure the order in which updates are downloaded on Android.
If you don’t like how one of the standard Android applications (for example, Play Market) works after an upgrade, you can quickly roll it back to its original state:
- Open settings, go to "Applications".
- Find in the list the program whose updates you want to remove. Click on it to open a page with additional settings.
- Tap on the “Uninstall updates” button.
Deleted updates may be downloaded back when connected to Wi-Fi. To prevent this from happening, follow the recommendations for setting up app updates on Android.
Setting up Android update
By default, programs begin updating when Wi-Fi is turned on. On mobile traffic, updates are not downloaded, because it has a limit - a specific number of gigabytes per month. Most Android users are happy with this approach: they turn on Wi-Fi, the application is updated, and you don’t have to worry about the relevance of the programs. But if you want to completely control how it will load Last update, it is necessary to perform additional system configuration.
The first thing you can do is set a limit on background processes. It will help fix the situation when the system freezes due to the simultaneous updating of several applications.
- Open settings, section "For developers".
- Scroll down to the Background Process Limit option. Click on it to change.
- Set the value that suits you - for example, no more than 2 processes at a time.
If you want to disable auto-updates altogether, the easiest way to do this is to use the Play Market settings:
- Launch Play Market. Call up the control menu and go to settings.
- Click on "Auto update" and select "Never".
Some applications are updated without the help of the Play Market, so following the above steps will not be enough to completely disable auto-update. To fix this flaw:
- Open your phone settings, go to the “About device” section.
- Select "Software Update".
- Uncheck the "Auto-update" option.
After turning off auto-update, you will have to update programs manually:
- Open Play Market, call the control menu.
- Go to "My Apps & Games".
- Open the "Installed" tab.
- Click “Update” next to the application for which you want to download and install the update.
Manual upgrade is not the most convenient way to keep programs up to date, but you will be in complete control of the situation.
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How to disable app updates on Android
Today, Android games and programs are regularly updated by the manufacturer. The system often installs them on its own without notifying the user. The question arises: how does updating applications on Android work? Content:
Why are apps constantly updated?
Various applications are constantly updated for various reasons. Thus, with each update, antiviruses replenish the database of viruses, cleaning programs receive new functionality, games receive new maps and levels. The manufacturer is constantly trying to improve applications, so it is forced to release new versions. Updates are also released if the previous version turned out to be “buggy” (it slows down or doesn’t start at all) or the new one Android version does not support older applications that are not optimized for it.
Do I need automatic app updates?
Here it is worth clearly indicating where automatic updating is mandatory and where it is not. Antivirus utilities, for example, should receive regular updates. If the user decides to independently download new versions of firewalls on an irregular basis, the system will be vulnerable to attacks by spyware, advertising banners and viruses. Navigation utilities should also allow automatic updates: each new version of the same Google Maps or Here carries new maps and more detailed diagrams of the old ones. In other programs like Google Chrome, CCleaner or Total Commander, automatic updating is not necessary: an updated design, one or two innovations and the traditional “Minor bugs fixed” - that’s all that the consumer usually receives after downloading the latest version of the utility.
It is better to update such programs once a month. In games, every update brings new maps and levels, so it's better to let them download new versions themselves as well.
How to remove app updates on Android
If android update application does not satisfy the user (ill-thought-out interface, stutters, or the program does not start at all), then he can roll back to the previous version. You can only return those utilities that were originally installed by the manufacturer. Those multimedia files that the user downloaded himself cannot be rolled back. How to remove system application updates: go to the device menu, then to “Settings”. There, click on the “Applications” / “Application Manager” tab (it is called differently in different devices). Find the program you want to roll back. Then click on the “Uninstall update” button. If it is not there, go to “Options”, and only then to the “Uninstall update” tab. After this, a menu will pop up asking you to confirm the rollback. It is worth noting that after this the utility returns to its original version (for example, if Google Chrome v 1.0 was installed “from the factory”, and then the user himself updated it to v 2.0 and v 3.0, then when rolling back from the third version the program will return to v 1.0).
How to remove an update for non-system applications: the only way out is to find the installation file (apk format) of the old version on the Internet.
How to prevent app updates on Android
To disable application updates, you must first go to Google Play, then you need to click on the menu icon or swipe from left to right. Find the “Settings” tab, then go to “Auto-update applications”. In the menu that appears, select “Never”. Tip: You can also select "Wi-Fi only" to avoid using data megabytes.
How to cancel an app update on Android
If the Android application is at the downloading stage, then you need to go to the Google Play menu. There you need to find the “Downloads” tab and select the file to download. You can cancel its download by long pressing on the file.
How to update Android apps manually
Go to Google Play, call up the main menu, then go to the “My Applications” tab. A page will open showing all installed games and programs, including factory ones. Utilities that have updates will be separated from those that do not have updates. There will be an "Update" button on each application's tab. Also in this submenu there is an “Update All” button. With it, files will be updated “chain by chain”. If an application requires access to identification data, multimedia files or contacts, it will notify you about this. Click the “Accept” button. If the program does not need additional special permissions, it will throw out a corresponding message - click “Accept”. Updating multimedia files, however, requires space in the smartphone's memory (namely the smartphone, not the memory card). To free it, you should delete some files from the smartphone’s memory (music, pictures, another application, cache of various programs). Before updating a heavy utility, Google Play will offer to download it via Wi-Fi so as not to waste mobile traffic.
Disabling the update of one specific Android application
Go to Google Play and enter the name of the required application in the search bar. In the list of games and programs that appears, click on it, then click on the ellipsis located in the upper right corner. The “Auto-update” item will fly out; you need to uncheck it.
Why don't apps work after updating Android?
The fact is that applications on Google Play are not optimized for new system. A striking example is the update from Android 2.3 to 4.0. In this case, the best help is: 1) Reinstalling applications again; 2) Complete reset with copying of all data. First, it is better to simply reinstall the necessary games and programs. Don't worry about Google charging you again for downloading paid apps: after purchasing media files on Google Play, you can reinstall it countless times. By the way, when deleting most games and programs, only the executive files are erased: the cache (for example, progress in Angry Birds) remains. However, sometimes you have to completely reset the device settings. Before doing this, you need to make a backup of your data. Download and install on PC free version Titanium Backup utilities. Then we connect the smartphone to the computer. After launching the utility, the user is asked about root rights, click on the “Allow” button. Go to the smartphone menu, then go to “Processing”. Click on “Backup”. Next, Titanium Backup will provide a list of applications from which you must select which media files you want to save. After selecting the applications you need, click on the “Start batch processing” button. After the operation, Titanium Backup will display a list with checkboxes next to games and programs as confirmation of successfully made copies. The backup itself will be saved on the micro-SD card of your smartphone; for reliability, it can also be saved on a PC.
Nowadays, more and more people use the Internet using a smartphone. This is not surprising, since these devices are very mobile and easy to use. That is why many people prefer to go online using their Android device.
One of the most popular sites for Russian Internet users is the VKontakte site, to work with which you can use mobile devices there is a special application. It is very convenient to use such an application, as it completely adapts this popular network to an Android device.
This application does not stand still, it is constantly updated, its developers add additional functions to it that make its use even more convenient. That is why people who use their mobile to access VKontakte have a completely logical question: how to update VK on their phone? It is this question that we will try to answer in this article.
Why update VK on your phone?
Why do you even need to update the VK application on your phone? Everything here is actually very simple, you need to do this in order to take advantage of all the latest features that developers regularly add to the application. This is very important, since the modern Internet is changing very quickly, so if you want to stay up to date with the latest trends and use truly convenient functionality on your Android device, you should regularly update VK on your smartphone.
A new version of VK for your phone, which you can download at any time absolutely free on your smartphone or tablet, offers its users a constantly updated design, as well as a set of new functions.
With its help it will be much more convenient to go out to your favorite social network, and leave various interesting entries on your page. It also greatly simplifies viewing news, commenting on posts and other people's photos, sharing media files and many other details that make using VKontakte even easier.
How to update
To update VK on your Android device, you must first download the new version of the application. Where can this be done? There are actually quite a few options. a large number of, one of the most convenient is to use Google service Play, which is very popular among owners of devices using Android.
To better understand how to do all this, let’s describe this operation step by step:
- Go to Google Play and find the My Applications Tab, click on it (look for it on the top left side).
- After this, you will see which applications are already installed on your Android device, as well as those that require updating.
- Among the applications that require updating, you need to find the VK application, and then click on the update button.
- The application will display information on the Android device screen that it is requesting your identification data; to continue, you must click the Accept button.
- Next, the update download will begin.
All updates after the above steps will be performed automatically.
If you use regular Internet traffic on your Android device, the program may notify you about excessive large size downloaded file. This message is necessary so that the person downloading it takes into account the fact of a possible overpayment for traffic. That is why it is much more convenient to download an update for VK using a Wi-Fi connection, and this will also save money on your account.
One more possible problem When downloading a VK update for Android, there is a possible lack of space on the device itself, which your smartphone or tablet will definitely inform you about. In the event that you encounter this problem, you will simply need to clear additional space on your Android device. Just delete the files you don't need or are least valuable to you. It should be noted that in this case it is necessary to delete files located on internal memory phone, since the application is installed there, so deleting files from the SD card will not give the desired effect.
If you don’t have enough space on your smartphone and therefore don’t want to install an update for VK on it, then it’s best to change your mind. The fact is that an update for VK is necessary not only for new functionality and design improvements, it also allows you to correct errors that existed in previous versions. That is why, if you often use this social network and want to log into it from your Android devices and without having any problems, you should definitely download the update.
In addition, having decided to use the latest version of the application for VK, you will not have questions like how to hide VK friends or how to exit VK, since these functions are implemented here very simply and clearly. It is also worth noting that the configuration of the application itself, as well as the parameters of your page, is getting better and better from update to update, which also cannot but rejoice, especially for those who spend a lot of time on this social network.
Bottom line
We hope that now you know exactly how to update VK on your phone, and if necessary. You will have absolutely no problems with this. Therefore, you will be able to use the latest functions of the VK application, which will make using this social network much more convenient.
After VK developers made large-scale changes in 2017, and installed VK applications for a phone or tablet stopped playing music from the cache, many users began to wonder how to return the old version of Android. In this article, you will learn how to roll back an application to a previous version of Android, and at the same time make sure that the software stops updating automatically.
How to return the required software version: recovery instructions on Android
Many users are interested in the question of how to roll back VK to older versions. To do this, you do not need to create 2 accounts or change the firmware to the previous version of Android. You can return the old version of the application using the standard settings menu only in the case of pre-installed applications, for example, from the Play Market. But with the VKontakte social network for Android, returning the previous version will not be so easy. The simplest solution on the path to recovery is to delete the current version of the social network, and then download from a third-party resource the version that suits you best. After downloading, we simply install it on the device and restore access (enter the password and email in the program again).
This can lead to viruses appearing on Android. Users who downloaded the old VKontakte application, although they regain the desired software, complain that important data was deleted or their pages were hacked, so download the old version of VK on Android only from those resources that inspire your trust . And the advice “Install an antivirus”, naturally, should be followed before downloading a file with unknown software begins.
You can roll back not only to the previous version, but also to an older version of VK. Both specialized sites where you can download the necessary software and VKontakte public pages, which appeared in the wake of users’ requests to download the old version of VK on Android, will help you with this. They allow you to return the old application to your device for free and enjoy the previous version. All sites, public pages and other resources independently publish instructions describing how to download and install the old version of VKontakte, and such instructions may differ for each resource.
Remember that the new design of a social network from a computer cannot be replaced with the old one. Latest version for PC was introduced forcibly for all users, while the question of how to roll back the system for PC and return old design, unfortunately, there is no answer.
How to cancel automatic updates
To stop your smartphone or tablet from automatically downloading updates, you need to follow these steps:
- Launch Play Market.
- Call the main menu from the left sidebar, and then select “Settings”.
- Click on the “Auto-update” sub-item.
- In the window that appears, you need to select the “Never” line.
- The same steps can be repeated for two or more devices, for example, if you use both a smartphone and a tablet running Android OS.
After you have learned how to return the old version of VK Android and were able to restore the application to the form in which it was before the update, you should make sure that your efforts are not in vain. To do this, you need to disable the “Auto-update applications” function in the settings.
Let us recall that at the beginning of October 2017, the VKontakte service still remains the most popular, daily traffic is more than 65 million people per day, and more than 28.5 million prefer to access the social network with a smartphone on the Android system.
More recently, or rather on September 27, the VKontakte team pleased its users with a new version of the Vk 5.0 mobile application. As always, there were supporters and dissatisfied ones. Both of them can be understood. It’s not surprising that you don’t get used to something new right away. Before accepting something new, you need to get used to it, or rather get used to the menu and other options. Therefore, today we would like to tell you how you can return the old version of VK after the main update of 2017!
We are returning the old version of VKontakte
With the update, the Android application has changed dramatically. Now you can move between the main options with one touch, friend requests and messages have moved to the bottom functional line. The menu button has moved to the lower right corner, and in its place is now a camera.
Yes, all this is different and you just need to get used to the innovations, because remember when they switched the desktop version to a new design, at first there were also thousands of dissatisfied people, but then they got used to it, because there was no way out :)
But, if on a PC you cannot return to the old design, then on smartphones things are different and you can easily roll back to an earlier version, or rather to the one that was the latest 4.13.1. And now we will tell you how to do this!
1. The first thing you need to do is make sure that you are not a supporter of everything new 🙂 and if you haven’t changed your mind, then go to your phone settings - Application Manager - delete VK.
2. Now download the penultimate one. VK 4.13.1 - 34 MB
Please note that the number of downloads was more than 9 million 800 thousand people. Also in the Versions tab, you can get nostalgic about what the VK mobile service looked like before!
3. Go again to Phone Settings - Security - and allow the installation of applications from unknown sources.
4. Install the downloaded 4.13.1. And we rejoice in the old VK. If you decide that it’s time to move forward, you can update through the play market!
I hope you haven't forgotten what it looks like. I think that after using it you will sooner or later return to the updated VK. By the way, don’t forget to turn off auto-update in the PlayMarket settings! Otherwise, you will again be the happy owner of a new product :)
If you have any questions, write in the comments. If it works, then write too, we’re pleased :)