How to Download Facebook Photos and Videos | Halek Hossain

 

Facebook is a repository of memories of you and your friends, so you may want to download Facebook photos and videos to your computer or phone.

We will show you the official method as well as the third-party Facebook photo downloader app, which allows you to download your photos, your friends' photos and videos.

How to Download Facebook Photos

If you want to save a single photo on Facebook, don't bother with third-party apps or websites. Facebook itself offers a handy downloader tool.

On desktop: Open Photos, click Menu (three-dot icon) > Download.

On mobile: Open Photos in the Facebook app, tap Menu (three-dot icon) > Save to Phone (Android) or Save Photo (iOS).

You can use this method to download Facebook photos. It's as simple as that.

However, to download Facebook photos of your friends, they should be allowed by Facebook photo privacy settings.

How to download facebook album

If you want to download a Facebook album from your own profile, Facebook has an easy way to do it. Again, you don't need a third-party downloader app for this. However, you have to use Facebook on the web since the mobile app doesn't let you download albums.

Follow these steps to download your Facebook album:

Navigate to your profile by clicking on your own name.

Go to Photos > Albums.

Open the album you want to download.

In the top-right corner, click the three-dot icon and select Download album.

Next, select Continue.

Facebook will create a zip folder. Depending on the size of the album, this may take some time. Once this is done, you will receive a notification telling you that the album is ready for download Click on the notification, enter your Facebook password and select Continue. Your album will start downloading immediately.

The downloaded album comes as a zip file. You need to extract this zip file to access the images.

How to Download All Your Facebook Photos

There is also an easy method to download all your uploaded photos from Facebook. You'll even find them in proper sub-folders organized by album But the names of the files can be a bit strange.

Here's how to use the easy built-in Facebook photo downloader:

Go to Facebook settings in your desktop browser or use the facebook.com/settings link.

Click on your Facebook information in the sidebar.

Select Download your data.

Choose the quality of the image file under the Select File option. If you want a full-resolution copy, we recommend changing from Medium to High. The setting you choose will determine the file size. If you have many images, this will increase the file size and it will take time for Facebook to prepare it.

Under Select information to download, click Unselect all, then select only the post box.

Next, select the date range. Select All Time to include all your photos

Scroll down and click Request a download.

Depending on how many photos and videos you have on Facebook, Facebook will take some time to prepare the ZIP file. Once it's done, you'll get a notification to download it from the available files

Download and unzip the file to see all your posts and images with albums as sub-folders

Best Facebook Photo Downloader App

Multi Downloader for Facebook is one of the best Facebook image downloader apps. It's free, it's super easy to use, and it works for videos too

With this app, you can also download your own Facebook photos and albums and your friends' Facebook photo albums You can search for users or pages and download photos and videos from there.

The app menu includes quick links to Photos, Videos, Friends, Search, and a quick link to your downloaded photos and videos.

Tap Photos for your own photos, Friends to browse someone on your friends list, or Search to browse users and pages on Facebook.

The filter icon next to the search box at the top helps you find a user or a page Then browse the album you want. Here, you can download all the photos in the album or select a few to save The method also works for video. The main caveat is, the app is only available on Android.

While Multi Downloader isn't as versatile as our previous favorite (VNHero Studio's Download Videos and Photos: Facebook and Instagram) which is no longer available, it offers enough to stand out among the rest.

Download: Facebook Multi Downloader for Android (Free, in-app purchases available)

How to save Facebook videos to your computer or phone

Facebook has a simple download button for photos. But there is no easy way to download videos. FDown.net is one of the easiest web apps you can use to save Facebook videos The site allows you to download private Facebook videos and work on desktop computers and smartphones.

Here's how to use it:

Open the Facebook video and copy its link.

Go to FDown and paste the link. Click or tap the Download button.

Click Download Video in HD Quality or Normal Quality and start downloading.

If the video plays in your window without downloading, go back to the previous page. Right-click on the download video in HD quality, choose Save Link As... and download to your preferred folder.

It should work like a charm. The downloaded file will be in MP4 format, which should be fine for most people. The method also works on mobile browsers. We tested the website in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on Android and iOS, so choose any of the three.

FDown also has a handy extension for Google Chrome, dubbed Video Downloader Plus on Desktop. When you're playing a Facebook video, click the extension icon to download it to your computer

Download: Video Downloader Plus for Chrome (Free)

There are many other sites that do the same thing as FDown. Now that you can save Facebook videos, you may want to go back and search for old videos that you like To help you do that, here's a guide on how to find videos on Facebook

Other Facebook download tools

Besides photos and videos, Facebook has a lot more information about you The company is also notorious for data collection.

The methods above let you easily download photos and videos, but you may want to consider backing up your Facebook history and learning about other download and data management tools.