How to install the royal Vkontakte client or how to sit offline VK with an iPhone. Vkontakte for Mac OS X
In OS X Mountain Lion, as in iOS 6, programmers have added tight integration with social networks Twitter and Facebook. In Russia and the CIS countries, these networks are inferior in popularity to Vkontakte. And if on iOS there are a huge number of clients and players for the Vkontakte network, then on Mac there are much fewer of them. In this article, we will tell you about several handy programs for OS X that allow you to improve your work with Vkontakte.
VKMessages
Everything is very simple - a program for chatting through the social network Vkontakte. It is possible to send images and insert emoticons. The program resembles Messages from OS X in design.
The author of the program regularly releases updates with features that are recommended by the users themselves.
Pros:
- Notification Center support;
- Search by messages and dialogs;
- Fullscreen support.
Minuses:
- Missing icon in the menu bar
It is no secret that the Vkontakte network, in addition to communication, is used by many to listen to free music. Of course, this cannot be called piracy, since we all listen to music there only for "acquaintance". In this article, we will consider two free Vkontakte audio players for OS X: Vkmusic and Vplayer.
Vkmusic
The program has quite a few useful functions, despite the size of 1 MB. After the first launch, you just need to log into your account and start listening to music.
When minimized, tracks can be switched using the icon in the menu bar or via the dock. 
Pros:
- All played audio recordings are stored in a "cache" for listening without the Internet;
- Quick search;
- Shortcuts for switching tracks.
Minuses:
- There is no Russian language;
- No support for Retina screens;
- No support;
- No viewing of audio recordings of friends or groups;
- There is no way to add found songs to your audio recordings;
- There is no support for standard multimedia keys.
Download VKMusic from Mac App Store
VPlayer
The program recently came to the Mac App Store, but the Windows version appeared much earlier. In this regard, some functions, such as downloading songs and storing them in the "cache", are not yet supported by the OS X version. But the developers promise to add them with updates. 
The program is also controlled in the background using the menu bar or dock. 
Pros:
- Great design that matches the style of OS X
- Ability to listen to friends' recordings
- Russian localization
Minuses:
- No AirPlay support
- There is no possibility of "Caching" files
- No support for multimedia keys or shortcuts
Download VPlayer from Mac App Store
VK Box for Mac
Also be sure to pay attention to the app VK Box for Mac, detailed review which is located.
Vkontakte downloader for Safari
If you still want to become a pirate and download music from Vkontakte, then you do not need to use a third-party application for this. It is enough to install a special extension for Safari - Vkontakte downloader for Safari.
After downloading, you just need to double-click on the file and confirm the installation. 
You will now notice a download button next to music and video. 
Vkontakte is by far the most popular social network in Russia. And the number of users sitting in it with mobile devices iPhone and iPad are growing every day. But due to Apple's policy, Vkontate were forced to remove many important functions from their mobile client, such as listening to music in the background and offline.
Fortunately, users who have jailbreak installed could install the VKsettings tweak and enjoy the full functionality. But in connection with the latest delays, the question of how to listen to Vkontakte music in offline and background modes has become relevant again. Fortunately, the developer Ilya Kambarov (preciserf0x) has integrated the wonderful VKsettings tweak into the VK client. Next, we will tell you how to install the royal Vkontakte client without jailbreak and its benefits.
Supported iOS
- iOS 9.3 - iOS 9.3.5
- iOS 10.0.1 - iOS 10.2.1
- iOS 11 - iOS 11.2.2
Manual updated
Attention! The Vkontakte team periodically closes the ability to listen to music online through third-party clients, so this functionality may not be available in the current versions of the royal VK.
1. How to install the royal client Vkontakte
The installation process of the royal client is extremely simple and will not take you much time, follow these steps:
- Remove the current Vkontakte client
- Open the mobile Safari browser on your iPhone
- Go to the site and follow the further instructions to purchase a client https://f0x.pw/
- Tap on the VK icon
- Quickly go into the settings and change the date to July 2015
- After installation, we change the date back.
- The installation will begin, at the end of which go to Settings->The main->Profiles and controls arrange ...
- Click on ASTRID MOBILE, OOO and confirm permission
1 If the error “Unable to check programs from“ iPhone Distribution: ASTRID MOBILE, OOO ”” appears, please restart your device and try again.
2 After step 6 (date return), check your time zone, it must be yours. Otherwise, an error will appear.
2. Instructions for free installation of the royal VK on iOS 10, 11 using Cydia Impactor
Cons of this method
- After 7 days, you will have to repeat all the previously done steps
- You do not have the most recent version of VK
You can also jailbreak your device and install the VKsettings tweak.
After that, you have a working Vkontakte application with all hidden functions, such as:
- Offline mode
- Ability not to read messages
- Hide typing
- Multi-account
- Smart Post (create a message on your wall without going online)
- Setting up VK tabs
- Spoofing client ID (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and many others)
- Turn off safe video search
- Playing music with minimized VK applications (in the background)
Rollback to the old version of VK with unlimited music
Video review of the application
How to sit Vkontakte offline
There is no full-fledged offline mode (invisibility when viewing news, writing messages, etc.) and never will be! VKontakte has closed access to offline methods of work, now even with the most advanced applications of this kind, when you perform certain actions, you will momentarily get online (“just came in” and then the countdown is already from this time)
In order for other VKontakte users not to know that you are currently online, you can use the royal VK client.
- To do this, follow the instructions described earlier.
- Open the installed application and scroll down
- Activate the toggle switch Offline
That's all, we hope our instructions helped you install the royal VK client and you can now enjoy all its functions.
Updated by
The site from which it was possible to download the Vkontakte client stopped working. The developer announced that he can no longer maintain its functionality and offers installation on a paid basis.
The title of the article contains the most popular question that often interests our readers. A few months ago, I had to advise users of rather stupid alternatives, but now, thanks to the increase in the number of useful plug-ins for Safari, the situation has improved. Introducing the plugin Vkontakte.Ru Downloader for Safari.
What is required of a decent plugin for such tasks? Invisibility and ease of use, of course. The first requirement is implemented remarkably - the plugin does not add any left buttons on the toolbar, for which many thanks to him.
Judge for yourself about the second requirement. After installing the plug-in, next to the Play button, next to each audio file, button for direct download:
The developers managed to integrate a wonderful feature into the plugin. Click on the length of the song and you will see file size in megabytes and its bitrate:
Instead of buttons, two additional links will appear on the video viewing page:
Now how to install the plugin. File extension .safariextz, in theory, it should open immediately in Safari. But it often happens that attempts to launch it do not lead to any noticeable results. To fix the problem, close Safari completely (Cmd + Q) and only then run the plugin file.
The day has come when you, as usual, decided to go to your favorite social network, and then it just doesn't work out.
And you do not understand why this is happening. Well, let's solve this problem together.
First, answer the question, what happens when you try to go to vk.com?
Quickly navigate to the answer you want:
The site Vkontakte (vk.com) does not load?
There are several explanations for this:
Login and password from VKontakte are not suitable?
The answer to the question and the solution is very simple!
First, make sure that you enter your username and password correctly:
- Make sure you enter the password in the correct language, for example, you enter a password using Russian letters, and you have it in the English keyboard layout;
- Make sure the caps lock light is off on the keyboard, otherwise there will be an erroneous password entry;
Login and password are still incorrect? Then the attacker most likely stole your password and changed it. But you can restore access to your page back if the page is registered to your phone number, which is at your fingertips.
Restoring access to the VKontakte page
Click on the link "Forgot your password?", Enter your phone number on which the page is registered (or e-mail, or login), click "next". You will be asked to enter characters from the image (captcha), and then confirm if this page is yours
After that, a code will come to your phone number, which must be entered into the proposed form, and click "change password".
Well, after that we just come up with a new password.
After that, you will be able to log into contact again, with the same username, but with the new password that you came up with.
So that there are no mistakes, you will also receive another SMS on your phone, in which you will be reminded of the information you entered so that you don’t forget it and don’t lose it.
Are they asked to send SMS when you visit the VKontakte page?
Everything seems to be as usual, but you are required to send SMS for money.
Do you think that Pavel Durov, the creator of the VKontakte network, is to blame, and that the day has come when you have to pay for it, or there are some technical problems and for everything to work, you need to send an SMS. But this is absolutely not the case!
Very often people think that their VKontakte page is blocked, or simply problems with the site vk.com itself and it does not work, but this is completely wrong! To check this, just go to your VKontakte page from your friend's computer and you will make sure that everything is in order with her.
This means that your page is not blocked. What happens then, why doesn't he go to the site vk.com? The answer is simple - a virus or Trojan program has got on your computer that blocks access to the site and requires you to send a paid SMS in return.
Such messages can look very believable. and, as it were, on behalf of the VKontakte administration, but this is not so.
Remember once and for all, the aforementioned social network never requires money from you to access your page.
One of the ways to infect your computer or gain access to your page is to send you a link in a letter on behalf of your VKontakte friend, whose page has already been hacked, or whose computer is already charged. You follow it, do some actions, and the next day you cannot get in touch.
Think before following such links. More often than not, messages with such links may raise suspicion in you. For example, you have never communicated with this person (and do not remember when he was among your friends), but here once, he receives a message “Hello. How are you? Follow this link, there is something interesting written about you))) ". In no case do not fall for such tricks on the part of scammers.
A file similar to vkontakte.exe, which automatically opens a window resembling a VKontakte site, could get to your computer, but this is a fake page, that is, not a real one, very similar to it, where various errors appear when you want to view your page.
Do not send the SMS that you are asked to send.
This will not open you access, but for one SMS they will require a second, then a third, and so on. At the same time, you constantly have from your account mobile phone big sums will be written off. You can also infect your mobile phone as well.
How to solve the problem?
- At first, install an antivirus. If you have it installed, then update it. Perhaps its anti-virus databases are outdated long ago, and for this reason it did not protect your computer from hacker attacks.
- Secondly, search your computer for the vkontakte.exe program. If found, delete it immediately.
- Thirdly, edit the host file on your computer that may have been modified by a virus. We will dwell on this point in more detail, since in most cases this is precisely the reason.
How do I find and edit the host file?
Go to C: \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc. This means, go to the C drive, then to the Windows folder, then to System32, drivers and finally to the etc.
In order not to get to the etc folder for a long time, as described above, you can simply address bar Explorer enter C: \ Windows \ System32 \ drivers \ etc and you will be taken to the desired folder.
There is hosts file... You open it with the standard Notepad program.
Remove everything from there except for this line:127.0.0.1 localhost
and save the file.
Can't save the hosts file?
If you cannot save the hosts file - you are denied access, then right-click on the hosts file, select "Properties", then "Security", then click "Change" and select users,
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put all the birds and click "Apply".
After that, you can edit and save the hosts file. But when you edit this file and save it, then return the permissions to our place. This is important for safety.
How to prevent such problems in the future?
1) Use antiviruses with constantly up-to-date (fresh) databases of viruses and Trojans;
2) Before entering your username and password from the VKontakte page, make sure you have the vk.com address in your browser.
Due to your carelessness, you can present your password to an attacker by simply entering it on a page that looks very much like a contact, with only one character difference in the address, for example 1vk.com;
3) Come up with a complex password for the VK page and e-mail. Use not only letters or numbers, but alternate them, and also use upper and lower case letters, also alternating them.
If you are currently using a simple password, but immediately go to the page settings and change it to a more complex one.
This will protect you from password guessing programs. Don't wait until you get hacked and I will send spam on your behalf;
4) Don't download suspicious programs or add-ons for a contact, which, according to the creators, wind up friends, likes and voices;
5) Don't open suspicious emails that you receive by e-mail and do not click on suspicious links in VKontakte messages, even if it is from a person who is your friend (but with whom you have not communicated before).
Remember that scammers do not sleep and find new ways to make money on you. Be vigilant and good luck to you.
VK blocked in Ukraine: how to bypass blocking
In May 2017, the President of the country signed a decree blocking Yandex, Vkontakte and other Russian social networks and large resources in the country.
Now all you have to do is use a VPN, or simply any browser extensions that use a proxy.
To get from a computer to blocked sites, you will need to install one of the following extensions:
- friGate - we recommend.
- Saving traffic from Google(in addition to saving traffic, it allows access to blocked sites);
To bypass the blocking from the phone, download and install any of the following applications on it:
- Opera VPN (has stopped working);
- Opera Mobile (has stopped working);
- Tunnelbear
- Zenmate
- Opera VPN alternatives (paid and free)