While it's nice when friends and family tag you in their Facebook photos, the social media platform probably isn't the best place to shop those precious memories. Downloading Facebook photos to your iPhone might seem similar a complicated process, merely luckily, it's pretty elementary.

Whether you want to save one photo or an entire anthology, this guide volition teach you everything y'all need to know about downloading pictures from Facebook.

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How to relieve photos from Facebook to your Photographic camera Whorl

Saving photos from Facebook to your Camera Curlicue is pretty straightforward — and you can download pretty much anyone's pictures from Facebook equally long as the post is public or you are friends with that account. Plus, Facebook doesn't notify you when someone downloads your photo, and then that person will never know. Still, be sure to become the person'due south consent earlier downloading their photos.

Here are instructions for how to save your photos from Facebook to your Camera Roll:

  1. Open up your Facebook app.
  2. Locate the photograph you lot want to save.
  3. Printing on the photo.
  4. Press on the three horizontal dots push button in the tiptop right corner of the screen.
  5. Press Salve Photo.

Once you complete these steps, you'll get a notification from Facebook at the top of your screen, alerting you that your photo has saved. You'll exist able to discover that photo in the Recents binder on your iPhone (formerly Camera Roll).

Some other way to salvage a photo from Facebook to your Photographic camera Roll is to screenshot it. Equally with downloading a photo, Facebook doesn't notify y'all if someone screenshots your photograph or post.

Here's how to screenshot a Facebook photo on an iPhone:

  1. Open your Facebook app.
  2. Locate the photograph y'all want to save.
  3. Press on the photo.
  4. Printing and hold your iPhone'south power button on the correct side and click the home button at the same time.
  5. The screenshot will automatically salvage into your Recents folder (Camera Whorl).

How practice I download my Facebook profile film?

Now that y'all've learned how to download and save photos from Facebook from posts, y'all might be wondering if the same rules apply to your profile picture. They practice, only with 1 actress pace.

Here's how to salve your Facebook profile picture:

  1. Get to your profile.
  2. Printing on your profile picture.
  3. Press the View Profile Picture show choice.
  4. Press on the iii horizontal dots button at the top right of the page.
  5. Press the Save Photo option.

Over again, completing those steps will result in a notification from Facebook, alerting you that your photo was saved. And so you'll be able to immediately access it in your Recents folder.

How to download all your photos from Facebook

If the idea of downloading your Facebook photos 1 by i sounds like besides much piece of work, never fear. There is a manner to download all of your photos from Facebook at one time. You can download all your Facebook history and data (including pictures) on your iPhone through the Facebook app.

In that location is one caveat, however. This method simply applies to photos yous take uploaded to your account, not photos you've been tagged in or that other people take posted. If you want to save those photos, you'll have to download them individually.

Hither'south how to download all of your photos from Facebook on your iPhone:

  1. Press on the three lines button at the bottom correct corner of your screen to admission your settings.
  2. Scroll down until yous find the Your Facebook Information department.
  3. Press the Download Your Information option.
  4. Press the Deselect All option. (Yous tin forgo this step and the side by side step if you want to save all of your Facebook information.)
  5. Select the Photos and Videos option.
  6. Printing Create File.

The length of time required for this download will depend on how many photos you have to save, only you volition receive a notification from the Facebook app once the download is complete.

Here'due south what you do after your download finishes:

  1. Once you become the confirmation notification, press on information technology to go to the folio where y'all tin can find your download.
  2. Press the Download button next to your file.
  3. Enter your Facebook countersign and press the Continue button.
  4. You'll and then receive a push notification asking you if you want to download the file to your iPhone. Press the Download button.
  5. Press the downward-facing arrow at the top right of your screen.
  6. Press on the downloaded file.

The downloaded file will be added to your iCloud Bulldoze on your iPhone. There, press on the Naught file and navigate through the folders (which will be named afterward your Facebook photo albums) to access your photos. From in that location, you accept two options to salvage them to your Photographic camera Roll:

  1. You can save each photo individually. Press on the moving picture, then press on the Share push in the lesser left corner of the screen and then select the Salvage Prototype option.
  2. You tin can relieve every photograph from a folder at once. Press the binder of your choice, and then printing the Select button in the top right corner. Printing the Select All push in the top left corner and then select the Save Image option from the Share button in the bottom left corner.

Saving those photos will add them to your Recents binder.

How to download a photo album from Facebook

Maybe you don't need every single photograph you lot've e'er posted on Facebook downloaded to your iPhone but would like to save a specific album. The good news: It tin can be done! The bad news, however, is that yous tin only do it from Facebook'due south website on your desktop browser.

Nevertheless, it's a pretty simple process. Hither'due south how you practice it:

  1. Log in to your Facebook account on your desktop browser.
  2. Go to your profile.
  3. Press on the Photos option.
  4. Press on the Albums tab.
  5. Locate and press on the album you want to download.
  6. Printing on the gear button on the right side of the page. This will open up your Settings.
  7. Press the Download Album option.

Later on pressing Download Anthology, you'll receive a notification through the Facebook website that reads, "Information technology may take a few minutes for your photos to be ready to download. We'll notify you when they're prepare." Press Continue and wait until you receive the notification.

After receiving the notification on the website, open it. A pop-upwardly will open up that asks you to enter your password. Enter it, and press Continue. Your album will download as a Nothing file, and you'll exist able to save information technology directly to your computer. From there, you can transfer those photos from your computer to your iPhone.

How to download high-quality pictures from Facebook

Unfortunately, Facebook resizes images when you upload them, so you don't commonly get high-quality photos when you save them individually from the app. When you download all of your photos at once, however, you can make sure you get the highest quality possible.

Here'southward how to practise it on your iPhone from the Facebook app:

  1. Open up the Facebook app.
  2. Press on the button with the three lines at the bottom right side of your screen to admission your settings.
  3. Scroll down until you find the Your Facebook Information section.
  4. Press the Download Your Information selection.
  5. Press the Deselect All option. (You tin skip this step and the next footstep if you want to save all of your Facebook information.)
  6. Select the Photos and Videos pick.
  7. Scroll down until you lot see the Media Quality option.
  8. Press it and select the High option.
  9. Press the Create File button.

From in that location, all of the photos and videos you download in that Naught file will be high-quality. Follow the steps above to access those photos on your iPhone through your iCloud Drive.

Again, information technology's always a good thought to shop your photos somewhere other than Facebook. So whether you lot're downloading a unmarried new photo or your entire Facebook history, be sure to continue a backup somewhere — just in case.