How to View Full Size Image of Users Who Activated Facebook Profile Picture Guard

Omar Faruk Tanzil
2 min readDec 9, 2020

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It’s been quite a long time since Facebook rolled out a new feature with a view to facilitating its users' privacy measures,resulting in the introduction of “Profile Picture Guard".This feature can safeguard your profile picture in three ways,albeit the most important one is that it doesn’t let anyone who you aren’t friend with tag themselves or others under your profile picture and view the full size of it.Facebook added this feature so as to protect the misuse of users' profile picture unknowingly.

But, sometimes the most unusual things can be of most importance and it’s not always easy to find a way to quench the thirst of your need everytone.No exceptions with respect to this case stated above,meaning that you might need to see the full picture of a user’s Facebook profile(of course,for ethical purposes),despite the guard having already enabled.Although you may consider it a really a hard nut to crack and extract your need, it can be made completely possible by going through a few easy steps.But before we hop into it,please note that this trick is a lot easier(and is recommended) to perform using PCs/laptops rather than to perform using smartphones;because you might be able to view the source-code of a page without any hassles on smartphones as well,but some credential(s) needed along the way can be really hard to find.

So, without loitering around anymore, let’s see what those steps are for which we’ve come so far:

#1 : Open up a browser.

#2 : Now,navigate to the page which displays the facebook profile (with an active profile picture guard) you want to see a full sized profile picture of.

#3 : Perform this keyboard command : 𝘾𝙩𝙧𝙡+𝙐 to open the developer option/inspect-element so as to view the source-code of that certain page.

#4 : Then,we have to find the 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮_𝙞𝙙 which is the most important thing here, keyboard to find which is : 𝘾𝙩𝙧𝙡+𝙁.You must copy the ID number.The ID number looks something like : “1000xxxxxxxxx”

#5 : Now that you have the ID number,open this link in a new tab (after replacing the “USERNAME” with the ID number): https://graph.facebook.com/USERNAME/picture?width=800

Boom!!!Now,you can see the full size of the photo.

I hope you find it helpful and be able to make the best possible use of this since that’s the only purpose of my writing and effort.Don’t use this trick for any malicious purposes and I’ll not be held responsible for any kind of mishaps.

I shall try my level best to come up with more informative writeups like this in the days to come.Let me know what you think ,your opinions are more precious to me than anything and help me serve better writeups.

Thanks for coming this far.

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Omar Faruk Tanzil
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I am a college student who loves to read,research and be knowledgeable about variety of topics such as technology,facts,fashion,lifestyle and so on.