This is a social engineering approach. Even if the target has a locked profile, their friends might not.
To understand why you can't see certain photos, you need to understand how the platform works. When a user posts a photo, they select an audience:
If a user has set their photos to "Friends," there is no legitimate way for you to view them without sending a friend request. This is a core security feature of the platform.
The only reliable way to see everything a person posts is to send them a friend request. Facebook has aggressively patched many of the "loopholes" that used to allow people to peek behind privacy curtains. If the user has chosen to keep their photos private, respecting that privacy is the only option available.
Facebook has a powerful, albeit hidden, search function called Graph Search. While Facebook has nerfed some of its features, the photo filtering logic remains intact. This is the best method to see every photo the person has deliberately set to "Public."
Search engines index public Facebook pages. If the person has a common name, this might be difficult, but for unique names, it can be effective.
How to do it:
This will only show you photos that Facebook has allowed Google to index (i.e., public photos).
You may find older articles mentioning "Facebook Graph Search" queries—special URLs you can paste into your browser to reveal hidden photos.
Example of an old query:
facebook.com/search/[user-id]/photos/of
The Reality: These tricks largely do not work anymore. Facebook disabled the functionality that allowed Graph Search to look into private profiles years ago. While these queries might sometimes show you public photos you missed, they will not bypass privacy settings to show you private photos of non-friends.
How To See All Photos Of Someone On Facebook Without Being Friends Best Now
This is a social engineering approach. Even if the target has a locked profile, their friends might not.
To understand why you can't see certain photos, you need to understand how the platform works. When a user posts a photo, they select an audience:
If a user has set their photos to "Friends," there is no legitimate way for you to view them without sending a friend request. This is a core security feature of the platform. This is a social engineering approach
The only reliable way to see everything a person posts is to send them a friend request. Facebook has aggressively patched many of the "loopholes" that used to allow people to peek behind privacy curtains. If the user has chosen to keep their photos private, respecting that privacy is the only option available.
Facebook has a powerful, albeit hidden, search function called Graph Search. While Facebook has nerfed some of its features, the photo filtering logic remains intact. This is the best method to see every photo the person has deliberately set to "Public." If a user has set their photos to
Search engines index public Facebook pages. If the person has a common name, this might be difficult, but for unique names, it can be effective.
How to do it:
This will only show you photos that Facebook has allowed Google to index (i.e., public photos).
You may find older articles mentioning "Facebook Graph Search" queries—special URLs you can paste into your browser to reveal hidden photos. Facebook has a powerful, albeit hidden, search function
Example of an old query:
facebook.com/search/[user-id]/photos/ofThe Reality: These tricks largely do not work anymore. Facebook disabled the functionality that allowed Graph Search to look into private profiles years ago. While these queries might sometimes show you public photos you missed, they will not bypass privacy settings to show you private photos of non-friends.
Whoa Michael, we’re not Amazon. No need to direct your anger at us.
The print is too small. You need to add a feature to enlarge the page and print so that it is readable.
As a long time comixology user I am going to be purchasing only physical copies from now on. I have an older iPad that still works perfectly fine but it isn’t compatible with the new app. It’s really frustrating that I have lost access to about 600 comics. I contacted support and they just said to use kindles online reader to access them which is not user friendly. The old comixology app was much better before Amazon took control
As Amazon now owns both Comixology and Goodreads, do you now if the integration of comics bought in Amazon home pages will appear in Goodreads, like the e-books you buy in Amazon can be imported in your Goodreads account.
My Comixology link was redirecting to a FAQ page that had a lot of information but not how to read comics on the web. Since that was the point of the bookmark it was pretty annoying. Going to the various Amazon sites didn’t help much. I found out about the Kindle Cloud Reader here, so thanks very much for that. This was a big fail for Amazon. Minimum viable product is useful for first releases but I don’t consider what is going on here as a first release. When you give someone something new and then make it better over the next few releases that’s great. What Amazon did is replace something people liked with something much worse. They could have left Comixology the way it was until the new version was at least close to as good. The pushback is very understandable.
I have purchased a lot from ComiXology over the years and while this is frustrating, I am hopeful it will get better (especially in sorting my large library)
Thankfully, it seems that comics no longer available for purchase transferred over with my history—older Dark Horse licenses for Alien, Conan, and Star Wars franchises now owned by Marvel/Disney are still available in my history. Also seem to have all IDW stuff (including Ghostbusters).
I am an iOS user and previously purchased new (and classic) issues through ComiXology.com. Am now being directed to Amazon and can see “collections” available but having trouble finding/purchasing individual issues—even though it balloons my library I prefer to purchase, say, Incredible Hulk #181 in individual digital form than in a collection. Am hoping that I just need more time to learn Amazon system and not that only new issues are available.
Thank you for the thorough rundown. Because of your heads-up, I\\\\\\\’m downloading my backups right now. I share your hope that Amazon will eventually improve upon the Comixolgy experience in the not-too-long term.
Hi! Regarding Amazon eating ComiXology – does this mean no more special offers on comics now?
That’s been a really good way to get me in to comics I might not have tried – plus I have a wish list of Marvel waiting for the next BOGO day!