If you see a photo that you want to save online, you don’t have to make a screenshot. You can also save, as we show in the iPhone tips.
Save iPhone tips: Save photos of the internet
Although your photos from the internet cannot just use online everywhere, you can save them for yourself. You can do that by turning it into a screenshot, but then you generally keep the image in a lower quality. So that is rather a final resort. Saving is a better option. We show how you do that.
1. Save photos from a browser
The following steps are more or less the same in practically all browsers. In this example we use Safari:
- Open safari;
- Go to the website where you want to save a photo;
- Press the relevant image for a long time (so do not tap);
- In the shortcut menu that appears on ‘Save in photos’.
In Google Chrome you proceed in the same way. The only difference is that in step 4 there is not ‘Save in photos’, but’ Save ‘image’. And if you have installed multiple photo apps, it will appear in that step ‘Save image in’, as in the image below. If you tap this, you will then get the choice in which of the installed photo apps you want to save the image.
2. Save photos from another app
If you want to save images in another app, it generally works in a similar way. In the Facebook app for example: Tap the photo you want to save so that it is fully opened. Then press the photo for a long time until a shortcut menu appears. In that menu you tap ‘Save photo’.
In most apps it works in more or less the same way. Yet there are also exceptions, for example the Instagram app. In the way we have described here, it is unfortunately not possible in Instagram to save an image. In that case you can still make a screenshot. That may not be ideal, but also better than nothing.
Making a screenshot is done by pressing the side button and the button for ‘Volume up’ briefly at the same time. Then tap the preview left, cut the image and tap ‘ready’ at the top left. You can then find the image in the Photos app.
3. Edit photos and then save
You can of course edit photos that you have saved in your favorite photo app. But often it can also be faster and more direct. In many cases it is possible to copy a photo that you encounter. That actually works in the same way.
Take the example of Safari in tip 1. In the shortcut menu that appears in step 4, you also see ‘copy’. If you tap that, instead of ‘save in photos’, the image will be copied to the so -called clipboard. Then open the app in which you want to edit the image and simply ‘paste’ the image. In the example below we copied a photo and then we stick it in the Snapseed app.
Often see in the shortcut menu (see tip 1, step 4) even more options, such as ‘Open the image’, ‘Divide’, open image on new tab, or even ‘Search image with Google’. They speak for themselves and can sometimes be very useful. For example, you send a photo to someone without having to save the photo on your iPhone.
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