Instructions on how to hide the cover photo and Facebook Avatar

Tricker is having a trend of hiding Facebook cover photos and avatars. When other people visit the Facebook wall, only the timeline can be seen but not found profile picture and cover photo. Also not found get friend button, no follow button, no avatar, no cover photo.

Result after implementation

Especially will not see the button report Therefore, the RIP situation will be somewhat limited. However, if you look at the wall with your phone, you can still see it. But most help you avoid the RIP people sitting outside the net shop!!

Instructions to lose Facebook cover photo and avatar

This article will guide you step by step because the trick is a bit lengthy. Hope you focus on doing it very carefully to avoid making mistakes and having to redo it. I’ll start with the front cover photo.

Create Facebook cover photo with Video

You need to prepare yourself 1 Video to make Facebook cover photo. His short video can be downloaded below.

Download short video

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• Proceed to upload the Video to your timeline.
• Copy the ID of the Video (in the browser address bar as shown below).
• A moment will come “paste ID” then you use this ID to paste it.

Change cover photo and hide cover photo

Now you choose Update cover photo -> Select artwork.

Press the key combination Ctrl-Shift-C to open the browser’s programming window.

Hover your mouse over a Any video in the cover photo selection (like the example below). Show blue like the picture below click one.

After you click, the programming window will color the corresponding code in blue. Now, right click on the found code and select Edit Attribute (edit attribute).

Paste the ID of the video you copied earlier in two places:

photo_id="xxx"
data-photo-id="xxx" 
<-- Chỗ xxx thay thế bằng ID cần dán -->

Like my photo below.

• After replacing the ID, click outside
• Then click on the Video that has just changed the ID.
• You will see the cover photo change to a video
• Push the button Save changes.
• Then the cover image will be converted to Video.

Now on your wall will appear 2 Videos just Uploaded.

Let’s delete video normally under and keep the cover video.

And the cover video is on mode “Only me” let it hide the cover.

Now press F5 to reload the page will see the cover photo and Facebook avatar lost. Very cool isn’t it?

Restore hidden cover art and avatar

Restoring to the original state is very easy. Computer or phone can do.

For computer

1. You go to the Facebook website for phones.
2. https://m.facebook.com/
3. Update the cover photo to be a normal photo.

For the phone

1. Open the Facebook App.
2. Update the cover photo to be a normal photo.

In brief

The principle of losing Facebook cover photo is very simple. I will summarize the knowledge in a brief article for you to easily visualize the whole process.

• Select Facebook’s cover art change function.
• Then use the browser’s programming window to change the photo ID to the ID of a video on the timeline.
• Remove the video from the timeline (to avoid showing it normally).
• Set cover video to mode Only me (to avoid showing cover).
• Because the phone interface does not apply this trick.
• So you can take advantage of Facebook for phones to restore the normal cover photo.

Good luck
Lmint – Pido