While browsing on major social media, it’s easy to come across funny videos. here’s how to download them to our iPhone to watch with friends and even offline
While browsing on social media, we often come across funny videos. It’s not always that easy to save these videos to your iPhone. Luckily, there are a few little tricks you can use whenever you need to download a video from Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to your Apple smartphone.
If you open the App Store, Cupertino’s application store, you’ll find lots of programs that promise to download and save videos from the major social networks to your iPhone. But many of these apps are not safe. Some, for example, just contain lots of ads and don’t do the required work. If we often use Facebook, the advice is to install the MyMedia app. It won’t allow us to download the video directly, but it will turn it into a link that we can insert into a site that specializes in video conversion.
Facebook Video
To download the Facebook video on the iPhone, after installing MyMedia, we have to open the app of the famous social media and then, by clicking on the options of the video in the upper right corner, choose the Share item and then the Copy Link item. At this point we open MyMedia and copy inside the link just extracted from Facebook. After creating the download link the app will ask us which site to connect to in order to complete the saving. We click on one of those recommended by the same application. Once connected to the site all we have to do is copy the link edited by MyMedia and then click on Download. And at this point we’re done. But be careful, the video will be saved in the MyMedia app. To add it to the gallery, all you have to do is go to the app, select your favorite video and click on the “Save to Gallery” option.
Instagram Videos
Downloading videos, and even photos, from Instagram on iPhone instead is very simple. Just go to the App Store and install the Grab for IG application. This is a third-party program that acts directly within the famous social media for photos. Once Grab for IG is installed we’ll have to access the service using our Instagram credentials. Once this step is complete, every time we access Instagram we’ll find in the menu (three horizontal dots) next to each photo the option Copy Link. At this point just launch Grab for IG and enter the saved URL of the video.
Snapchat Videos
Using an app from the App Store to download Snapchat videos is not recommended. In fact, most of these programs, as well as Facebook, are full of very invasive advertisements and ads. To save a video on the social media of the ghost just record what is shown on our screen. Doing so on iOS 11 is really easy. In fact, in the new operating system, the Screen Recording function has been included. It can be found in the control center in the Customization section. The function allows you to save videos played on the iPhone screen while also recording the audio. If we have an iPhone with iOS 10 or lower we have two options: either we connect the phone to the Mac and use QuickTime to record the video playing on the screen, or if we don’t have a Mac we install the third-party app AirShou.
Twitter Videos
To download videos from Twitter we need to perform the same process as we have already seen for Facebook. First, let’s install the MyMedia app. At this point we go to Twitter and select the link to our favorite video. Then copy it to MyMedia and use one of the sites recommended by the program to download the file. At that point we can leave the video on the app or go to MyMedia and choose the “Save to Gallery” option.