Under the motto ‘every beginning is difficult’ this time another classic. Because how do you save images found on a website on the camera roll of your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, running on iOS or iPadOS …? This way you can save images from Safari.
Of course, for a seasoned iOS (or iPadOS) user, it should be no secret how to save images from websites opened in Safari to your device’s camera roll. But for beginners it can be a bit of a puzzle to get this done. The key to success is simply to press longer on an image in a site. Usually (!) A balloon appears with the option Add to Photosas well as a thumbnail of the selected image.
Tip: first tap the desired image briefly, you often see that websites treat you to a larger size image in a higher resolution. That photo can of course also (usually) be saved with a long press.
You can also go instead Add to Photos tap Part. Contrary to what you might expect, this only allows you to share the link to the image with apps, not the image itself. So you cannot open an image directly from the browser in a photo editor, you must first save the image locally on the camera roll. Logical somewhere, but you should know.
Mostly
It is not for nothing that we used the word ‘mostly’ above. Some websites have disabled the ‘right mouse button menu’. In this way they try – in a somewhat clumsy way – to prevent visitors from being able to select and copy text or to save images. Because a long press is actually a kind of right mouse click, you cannot save images under iOS via that way. In that case you can always take a screenshot. You do that on more recent i-devices by simultaneously pressing the power button and volume up buttons (on older devices, you press the power and Home button). You will then hear a shutter-release sound from a camera, after which a thumbnail of the captured screenshot will appear. When that disappears it is stored on the camera roll.
To remove unnecessary elements from such a screenshot, open the image in the Photos app and tap Change. Then tap the crop button in the shape of a square whose lines run just a little too far. Drag the cropping frame exactly around the desired image and tap Ready. Now you have saved the image locally!
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