Usually social networks like Facebook end up becoming a photo album for each of its users, since these sites are used especially to upload photos and videos constantly. This is how many people tend to upload almost or all the photos taken daily with either their digital camera or Smartphone.
This is how many times we ask ourselves how to do to download all the photos mounted on the social network either for the computer or mobile phone, in order to have a backup of all them in a much safer way.
Very surely you have already tried several tricks to be able to download the content of your account , but you still don’t get the desired results. Because of this, here we explain how you can download all your photos to your PC or mobile.
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Steps to download my photos and data from Facebook to my computer
Being able to download all the multimedia content uploaded to our Facebook account is very important for everyone , especially if we want to close the account for some reason or we just don’t want to use it anymore, but if we want to save all uploaded photos on the social network . This is something that can be done through different methods, all of them are equally effective and easy to do.
However, you should keep in mind that this process may take a few minutes or hours , it all depends on the amount of content you want to download to your computer. In this way, here are some methods for you to carry out all this.
Directly from my profile
The first method we present to you is directly from your Facebook profile, in other words, you must access your account to start with this process of downloading photos or videos > to the computer. This will require you to perform the following steps:
- The first thing you will have to do is login to your Facebook account through Facebook.com
- Once you are inside your account you can enter your profile or directly from the “Start” page and click on the “Down arrow” icon located in the upper right part of your screen, then in the drop-down menu we select the option of constituConfiguration•.
- When you are in the “Settings” menu you must select the “General” section located in the column on the left side of your screen. The next thing will be to click on the “Download a copy of your information” option.
- Now a new window will open to continue with the process, for this you must click on the “Create file” option.
- You will see a notice from the social network informing you that the backup includes, photos, videos, chat, and other information provided to the platform. Just click on “Create file” to continue.
- A new window will appear where you have to enter your Facebook password in order to continue with the process.
- Once this is done you will see a new window where you just have to click on “Download file” keep in mind that this process can take a few minutes or hours, depending on all the information that exists.
- When the file has been downloaded in its entirety t and will send an email with a download link.
- The following will be to open your email address and download the file, it will arrive in ZIP format. Once this is done you can start enjoying all your multimedia content on your computer.
Using browser extensions
Another of the ways we can use to be able to download photos from Facebook or any other social network to our computer is through the use of browser extensions . It is important to keep in mind that each browser has an extension store that aims to help users perform some specific tasks.
Some of them have as their main function to help download the photos of the different social networks in a very simple way. Therefore, if you are a user who uses Mozilla Firefox as your default browser and you do not have or know an extension to download photos and videos from social networks You can start using “Download all Images” which you can install in the browser and start enjoying its services.
To start using this tool you just have to follow the steps that we will explain below:
- Once you have installed the extension in the browser to start using it you will only have to enter your Facebook account from Mozilla.
- Note that there will be no extension button on the toolbar here. In this case you must go to your profile and select the option of “photographs”.
- Now select the album we want to download and right click on him.
- In the drop-down menu we must select the “Download Facebook” option.
- A window will appear with a mini application > with the options to download. The destination route and the start button will appear that will run automatically. Once this is done it will only be a matter of a few minutes before the download has been completed successfully, as you can see it is a fairly simple and fast process.
In the case that you do not use Mozilla Firefox as your favorite browser, but Google Chrome, you can also find a fairly good extension to be able to download your multimedia content from social networks . Simply install “DownAlbum”, with it you can download from Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Ask.fm , among others.
In order to use this tool and download all your photos and videos from the social network you just have to follow the steps that we will show you below:
- Once “DownAlbum” has been installed we must open the Facebook profile.
- In the upper right corner of your screen the extension icon appears.
- You must click on it and a new menu will open immediately with the options available to be able to make the downloads.
- The following will be to click on the “Normal” option and start the process.
- Once the entire process has begun, a progress bar will appear, indicating the percentage of the download.
- At the end of the entire gallery of the social network will be downloaded to our computer.
Please note that this extension can also be used to download photos from public profiles, simply by opening the profiles and activating the tool.
With an external program
In the event that none of the above methods you like or seem very complex, you can try to carry out this process through an external program , for this you will need to follow these steps:
- The first thing will be to enter the official websiteGetFbStuff.com•.
- Once we enter the page we will find a text box where we must insert the url of the video or photo that we want to download from Facebook.
- Once the url is placed, we will only have to click on the “Download” button and immediately the download will begin and it will be stored in the hard disk of your computer
- If you want to download a video private from Facebook you will have to click on the option of “Fb Private video ” which you will find at the top.
With this program you can also download photos from Instagram or from other social networks such as it is, in a very simple and fast way, simply with a few clicks you can have in your computer that photo or video that you want so much.
How to download and copy Facebook photos to my Android mobile or iPhone?
Usually, Facebook users usually upload most of their photos to the social network, either to be saved there or simply share each of their experiences with their friends and family . However, on many occasions we find old photo galleries that we want to have on our mobile device and which we don’t know how to download to the computer.
In this way, here we will explain how you can download and copy each of your photos from the social network to your Smartphone in a very easy and fast way. To do this, follow the steps that we will explain below.
Download on Android
In case you have an Android device you can start downloading all your photos from the platform in an easy and fast way. It is important to note that, although the application of FB on Android is quite advanced and complete it does not allow the download of photos and videos . Therefore, this process was necessary from the web application.
To do this follow these steps:
- Open your terminal’s browser and in the address bar type Facebook.com
- Then enter the username and password and click on “Start session ”.
- Now go to your photo gallery and look for that image you want to download to your mobile device, once you find it you must click on it to open it in the whole screen.
- Now click on the photo until a new menu appears on it, there you must click on the “Download image” option. Once this is done the image will be loaded and stored in your “Images or gallery” folder on your mobile device.
Download on iPhone
On many occasions our friends of FB upload photographs that we love and which we want to keep in our Smartphone, or it is also the case in which many times we get a photo of our old one and which We want to go down to our terminal. However, on many occasions we do not know how to do this on our iPhone device.
In this way, here we explain how you can download Facebook images to your mobile in a few steps:
- To start you must open the Facebook application on your iPhone or iPad device.
- Then you must find the image you want to save in e l Smartphone.
- Once we find the image we must click on it .
- Now we must click on the three points that appear at the top right of your screen or simply press for a few seconds on the image until a new menu appears.
- In the options that appear on the screen we must click on the option of “Save photo”.
Once this is done, the process of storing social network photos on your mobile device is complete. In this simple and fast way you can start save the photos that most attract your attention on your mobile without any problem.
How to download all the photos and videos of any user directly from Facebook?
For many years now this social network has become one of the most important in the world and one of the more active users has today . Due to the amount of information, images, videos, or any other type of file that we can find on the platform, on many occasions we want to download either an image or a reproduction .
It is very common that you see a image or video of another user of the social network and want to download it either because it has caught your attention or for any other reason. In this way we will need to use a extension for the Google Chrome browser, which is called “Advanced Facebook Search” or known as «AFS», with it we can begin to carry out this type of activity.
In order to perform this type of download you will need to perform the following steps:
* Note: Not already available in Google Chrome Store.
- The first thing you will have to do is install the “Advanced Facebook Search or AFS” extension, in the Chrome browser.
- Once installed the following will open your Facebook account from the browser.
- When you are inside your account you will have to search for the user of the social network that has the image or video that you want to download.
- Once you are inside the user’s profile, you will have to click on the AFS extension icon which will appear right next to the browser address bar. There you will see the option to add profile.
- When you click on this option, the user’s profile will be added to the extension .
- Again we click on the extension icon and the menu option.
- In this new menu that appears we will see the option to download photos and videos of the user. These may be the ones that the person has uploaded, tagged, shared or liked.
- In other words, this extension will show us all the activity of that user, which will allow us to know much more about it in a much easier and faster way, simply with one click.