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Trick to enlarge locked profile pictures

Learn how to enlarge the small profile pictures of locked Facebook and Google plus profiles.

Locked Accounts
Many people don't like to share there profiles (Facebook and Google+) with other people or to public. For this reason, they just limit there profile information to selected peoples or just friends. Due to limitations, the profile pictures of there account is just only visible as small as the thumbnail image. When you tries to click on that image to enlarge it, nothing happens. Even if you try to open image in new tab, the image would remain the same size.



Some people would suggest to just enlarge page size or zoom in to the picture. But this technique would only make the picture hazy and to loose its quality, and sometimes difficult to be able to recognize it. To overcome these issue, today we will discuss about enlarging the Facebook and Google+ (plus) profile pictures.

Now here is the Trick to enlarge pictures of locked Facebook and Google+ profiles without using any software or scripts, have a look over them.

For locked Facebook profile pictures

Locked Facebook Profile
  • Open a Facebook profile with locked profile picture.
  • Now right click on the profile picture and select “Copy image URL”.
  • Now in the copied image link, find out something like "/s160×160/" and just replace 160×160 with 720×720.
  • Finally paste the updated link in Web browser and that's it. The locked user profile picture has now been enlarged without using any software or script.

For locked Google+ profile pictures

Locked Google+ Profile
  • Open a Google+ profile with locked profile picture.
  • Now right click on the profile picture and select “Copy image URL”.
  • Now in copied image link, find out something like "sz=200" (this would be probably at the ending of URL), and just replace 200 with the value somewhere between 500 to 1000. Here 200 is the size of image in pixels, that you are going to change.
  • Finally paste the updated link in Web browser and that's it. The locked user profile picture has now been enlarged without using any software or script. If the larger profile picture is not clear, then it means that original picture isn't that much large and you may need to change the size accordingly.

Note: By this Trick we don’t want to give a new option to profile stalkers to invade user privacy and misuse their pictures. This post is just to aware people that your profile picture is not safe even if it’s locked.


So these were the simple Tricks to enlarge locked Facebook and Google+ profile pictures. If you like this post ! Kindly share it with your friends.

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