Various portals and websites have a special key with an icon in the form of an upward arrow, which allows you to switch to the first message with one click. Social the vk.com network does not have such a function. So users simply drag the slider up to find the post they're looking for. However, how to switch to the beginning of the dialogue if a huge number of messages have accumulated over several years of communication?
You cannot go to the beginning of the dialogue in vk.com with one click. Users often note this drawback and express their dissatisfaction. You can scroll up the pages if the correspondence is small, but what if you have several thousand messages? This can take up an extremely large amount of free time.
Let's consider several effective ways to open a dialogue from the very beginning:
- On the left there is a special block with various commands, here we select “Messages”, then from the list that appears on the screen, click on the correspondence you need. You can enable the updated interface of the Messages section. All correspondence is divided into blocks, like the users with whom you communicated. To do this, select the gear icon, and then click on “Go to new interface”.
- You can also find the message you need by simply scrolling up the page using the wheel of your computer mouse. However, this option will only help if the correspondence is small.
- To avoid scrolling the page for a long time, you can hover the cursor over the “elevator” of the dialog box, and then click LMB. You will move through correspondence much faster.
- Another way to open the very beginning of correspondence is to use the mobile version of the site. Write the English letter “M” in front of the site name in the address bar of Opera, Google Chrome or any other browser, and also put a dot after it (m.vk.com). The page numbering is displayed at the bottom of the screen; just switch to the first one.
- Click and hold your mouse wheel to scroll the page much faster.
- Open the conversation, and then press the “Page Down” button on your keyboard to scroll messages to the very bottom. You can go to the top of the conversation using the “Page Up” key.
Choose one of these methods depending on the number of messages in your correspondence.
Switch to the first entry in the dialogue
There are additional options that allow you to jump to the very beginning of the dialogue. To do this, you need to use the browser address bar again.
- Go to the correspondence, the beginning of which you need to open.
- You must add the special code “&msgid=1” to the address bar.
- Click on the “ENTER” button.
- When the page is reloaded, the first message of the dialog will open.
You can also quickly find the first message by searching by date. In the “Messages” section there is a “History” subsection, open this tab. Select the dialog you need, and then select the three dots on the right that symbolize the menu. Among the options offered, you must select “Search by message history.”
You can search for a message using keywords, or enter the date it was sent. To select a date, click on the calendar icon located on the panel. After that, select the month and date.
Navigating correspondence using a mobile application
Many users prefer a special application to the web version of the popular social network. You can also quickly switch to the very beginning of the correspondence. To open the first conversation entry from your smartphone, you need to use the page numbering, which is displayed at the very bottom of the window. We have already partially considered this option earlier. Each page consists of 20 messages, but unfortunately not all applications have pagination.
It is extremely difficult to scroll through dense dialogues with normal movements. However, the mobile application has its own message search. It is limited solely to typing, but will still make things much easier for users. You need to use the keywords that were mentioned in the post. Click on the magnifying glass icon and then enter the word. Click on the “Messages” tab to view the results presented here.
Conclusion
You cannot go to the beginning of the dialogue in vk.com with one click, but there are several different ways that make navigating through messages much easier. Such methods exist both in the browser and in mobile applications. As for me, the fastest and most convenient way to enter this code “&msgid=1” in the address bar.
For 12 years now, VKontakte has been giving positive emotions to its users. Pavel Durov really managed to unite many millions of users with the help of his product. Today there are almost half a billion registered users from all countries of the world. Most users have been registered on the service for 5 or even 10 years and have been actively using correspondence all this time. If you correspond with one person for a long time, tens of thousands of messages can accumulate in the dialogue.
It is difficult to imagine the volume of text in such dialogues, and yet they are constantly being replenished. What happens if you need to rewind the correspondence to the beginning of the list? Such volumes of information are difficult to take any action, even simple rewinding. What are the ways to get to the beginning of a VKontakte dialogue?
Standard ways to rewind a dialogue on VKontakte
The very first way that comes to mind is to simply rewind the dialogue by going to it from the “Messages” tab. When you are on the desired tab, all you have to do is press the Page UP (PGUP) button. To get to the beginning of the dialogue you will need not only a lot of patience, but also good performance of your computer or smartphone. The more data appears on the page, the slower the loading of new messages begins.
Another way is to use the mouse wheel. You can twist it up and also, after a long time, get to the beginning of the dialogue. In this case, you can set the page to scroll automatically. To do this you should:
Important! To start loading the next batch of messages, you should periodically move the mouse.
Both methods cannot be called effective, since you will have to spend a lot of time to achieve the goal. There is also a high probability that at a certain moment, when a lot of information appears on the page, the browser will close in emergency mode. There are faster search methods.
Using the browser address bar
One of the effective and relatively quick ways to rewind correspondence is search. VKontakte supports working with GET requests. There is no need to go deep into the features of this protocol; it is enough to do the same as in the example.
How to rewind dialogue:
Scroll through a conversation using search
On the dialog tab, you can search for information within this page. Using search, you can easily find specific keywords in correspondence. To use this feature, just click on the magnifying glass icon, it’s called “Search by Conversation.” All you have to do is enter a word or expression and click on “Search”.
One of the elements of this function is of greatest interest - the calendar. Button with additional settings appears next to the search icon and looks like three horizontal dots. After clicking on the icon, you can select the day or even year in which the user wants to search.
How to scroll through a conversation on VKontakte on a smartphone?
On mobile platforms, the most convenient way to use VK involves using a special application. Here scrolling is much easier than in the desktop version of the service. The appendix below the dialogue shows the page numbers. By clicking on them, you can quickly rewind the conversation to the beginning.
A similar method is available to PC users. They will have to switch to the mobile version of the service, adding m. to the beginning of the line, it should turn out
Many users of the social network do not like the lack of the ability to simply go to the beginning of a conversation. Prolonged scrolling causes the computer to freeze. Before you go to the beginning of the dialogue in VK, you should study the entire process so as not to encounter errors in the process. You can use the search when the date of the first messages is known.
To go to the beginning of the conversation, you must perform a number of actions:
- Open a dialogue, to the beginning of which you need to go.
- Add “&msgid=1” to the end of the address bar.
Among the popular methods, scrolling should be highlighted, which takes a lot of time and nerves. To shorten the process, it is recommended to use the Home key. This method is only bad for small correspondences.
How to open the first message in a VK dialogue from your phone
Users of the VKontakte mobile application also encounter the same problem. Sometimes there is no time to scroll, and not everyone remembers the start date of the correspondence. Before returning to the beginning of the conversation in VK from your phone, you should study the sequence of actions:
- Download the Kate Mobile app from the AppStore or Google Play.
- Install the application and register in the system.
- Open the VKontakte application and go to the desired correspondence.
- Click on the button in the top right corner of the screen, which is represented by three dots standing vertically.
- Select “Start conversation” from the list of actions.
Summarize
In order to move up the correspondence, you can quickly turn the wheel or use additional methods. Now you can read your first messages from your computer and phone instantly.
The social network VKontakte is already 12 years old. The project, once launched by Pavel Durov, has gained incredible popularity, and now more than 460 million users from all over the world are registered in VK. Many VK users have been using the site’s functionality for years, conducting long-term correspondence with friends and people of the opposite sex. Such correspondence can take up huge amounts of text, and one day we may have the desire to skip the correspondence to the very beginning, in order to remember how it all began. But how can you quickly skip such huge amounts of text? Below we will look at how to go to the very beginning of the VKontakte dialogue, and what methods will help us with this.
How to rewind a VKontakte conversation to the beginning - traditional methods
Of course, you can do it the old fashioned way, go to the “Messages” section, click on the desired correspondence, and hold down the “Home” (Pg UP) key. All you have to do is be patient and wait until the system rewinds the correspondence to the very beginning.
You can also use the mouse wheel, which must be turned up. However, this process can be automated. To do this, you need to click on the middle mouse button anywhere on the page (except for links), and then place the cursor a little higher (the pages will start scrolling automatically).
Scrolling with the middle mouse button
Of course, such methods are ineffective, since in the case of large volumes of text, scrolling may take an indefinite amount of time.
Rewind VKontakte correspondence to the beginning - working with the search function
Among the more effective ways to go to the beginning of VK correspondence, it is necessary to mention the method of adding the code &msgid=1 to the very end of the link in the browser address bar.
To go to the very beginning of the conversation in the dialogue, do the following:
- Go to VKontakte and click on the “Messages” section;
- Open a conversation with the desired user;
- Add the following character set to the end of your browser's address bar: &msgid=1
It should look something like:
https://vk.com/imsel=c2&msgid=1
Add the following code to the end of the address bar
All you have to do is click on enter, and the correspondence with the desired user will open from the very beginning.
Using the search functionality in VK - Search by date
The window for displaying correspondence with the user has a search function that allows you to find the necessary words in the correspondence history.
- To do this, click on the icon with a magnifying glass in the message window (“Search by conversation”).
- Enter the search word in the search bar and click on the “Search” button.
- This will also open a calendar button next to the search button.
- Clicking on which will help you choose which day, month and year correspondence you should switch to.
Clicking on the calendar button will allow you to select a specific day of correspondence
Clicking on the button with three dots next to the magnifying glass icon will allow you to select the “Search through message history” option. In general, it duplicates the functionality of the “Search by Conversation” button.
Option “Search through message history”
How to go to the beginning of a VK conversation on mobile devices
On the mobile version of VKontakte, scrolling correspondence is organized somewhat simpler. This uses message page numbers to make it easy to rewind the conversation to the very beginning.
Thus, even PC owners can take advantage of this more convenient functionality, for which you need to add m in front of vk.com in the address bar. Thus, the address bar will look like.
Many users would be interested see the beginning of the correspondence in VK. Especially if the dialogue is with an interlocutor with whom you have been communicating for a very long time.
Fortunately, starting a conversation is quite simple. From a computer or phone.
1. We open a dialogue with the interlocutor.
2. In the address bar at the end of the code add &msgid=1 (you can copy and paste to make it easier).
3. Follow the link ("Enter" key).
How to open a conversation in VK
1. Open the menu from a mobile browser
2. At the very bottom we go to the full version.
3. Open the dialog and add &msgid=1 in the address bar
4. Follow the link.
How to return to the beginning of a conversation in VK
1. Open the "Messages" section.
2. Let's go to .
3. In the search bar, enter some word that could begin your communication with the interlocutor.
The easiest way to find the beginning of a conversation in VK is from a computer. To do this, just add special code. But from a phone it’s more difficult, since the code doesn’t work and the message archive is inaccessible.
Couldn't go to the beginning of the conversation in VK? Watch the visual video tutorial.
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