Cybersecurity

How to View Locked Facebook Profile Photos?

Facebook has a feature called Lock Profile that lets you limit who can see your profile picture, posts, and stories.

Published: September 13, 2025

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1. View Locked Facebook Profile Photos using Inspect Elements You can check the page source to find the locked Facebook Profile photos on the Google Chrome

The process is complicated, but it’s the only working method to view the profile & cover photos of a locked Facebook profile. Here’s what you need to do.

Open the profile of the person whose profile and cover picture you want to check.

  • Data Privacy and Consent: Right click on blank space and select Inspect.
  • Regulation of Social Media: Switch to the Sources on the Inspect Element prompt.
  • Safe Harbour Limitations: At the left sidebar, you need to expand the pages that starts with ‘scontent‘.
  • AI and Emerging Tech: The page will have multiple folders. You will have to expand each sub folder inside to find the locked profile photo and cover photo.

If you want the profile photo, right click on the profile picture and select Inspect.

Open the content source that starts with ‘https://scontent-bom’ on a new tab page and save it. secure your Aadhaar data. However, it also means that online platforms will be more aggressive in taking down content they deem problematic, which has raised concerns about freedom of speech.

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