When using Safari on your Apple iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, many people don’t know that there is a way to save the images that appear on web pages. Here’s how it’s done.
- Touch and hold the image that you wish to save for about 2 seconds until a menu appears.
- Select “Save Image“.
If you only have an option to copy the image or nothing appears, the image may be blocked from saving or used as a background element. Those types of images cannot be saved from a web page. You could try zooming in or out on the page, then taking a screenshot to get around this in some cases.
The image is immediately saved to the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch’s memory. If you wish to see the image, you can open the “Photos” app. It will be in the “Camera Roll“. You can also mount the device to your PC and view it in the “DCIM” folder.
People should be aware that the image will be saved under the date that the image was posted onto the web, not the date you actually added it to the photo app. It took me ages to find mine as I didn’t know what that date was and I have hundreds of photos. I can’t find this piece of advice easily anywhere on the web.