How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
Every time you surf on Facebook you always find some really fun videos and you’d like to have a handy solution that will let you download these movies to your mobile device memory. If this is the purpose you set for yourself, I guess you have consulted the web search engines in an attempt to find out how to save videos from Facebook on your mobile.
How do you say? Are things really like that? Then it’s just a lucky thing to have happened to this guide. During this tutorial, I’ll talk to you about the best tools available on smartphones and Android or iOS tablets to download the videos you love most; so you can save them in the memory of your device in a few simple taps.
If the topic is of interest to you and you can not wait to learn more, all you have to do is take a few minutes of free time to read the explanations I’ll give you in this guide: I will talk about some applications to download videos from Facebook, showing you step by step how to use them. Are you ready to start? Yup? Very well! I wish you as usual a good read.
Note: Before you start discussing some of the tools and applications to download videos from Facebook, I would like to point out that downloading copyrighted audio-visual material from the Internet could be a crime. Clearly, I would like to point out that it is not my aim to promote piracy; this tutorial has in fact been made for a purely informational purpose. I assume no responsibility for any misuse of the information contained in this guide.
How to save video from Facebook to mobile (via browser)
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone – Google Chrome (Android)
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
One of the simplest and fastest methods you can use to save videos from Facebook on your mobile requires the use of Google Chrome, the well-known browser developed by Google that you will surely already have preinstalled on your Android smartphone.
If it is not installed on your device, you should first download it for free from PlayStore, the Android virtual store. Then search for the browser in question through the PlayStore search engine and install it by pressing the Install button and then clicking the Accept button.
At this point, you can proceed carefully and follow the steps I’m going to point you to: I’ll explain how to use the browser to download a video from Facebook on your smartphone.
Then open the Chrome browser and go to the official Facebook website, then log in with real-time data to your account (email or phone number and password).
Once you have access to the mobile version of the social network, you will need to locate the video you like and want to download on your smartphone or tablet. Once you find the video in question, start playback by pressing the Play button and then holding your finger on the movie.
This will display the Chrome browser context menu and you will be able to download the Facebook video by clicking on the Download Video button that you will see on screen. It will then automatically start downloading the video and you will see the progress of the download through a notification that will appear on top of your device.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
Once the download is complete, the file will be located in the Android Download folder where you can see it at any time. You can access this downloaded files folder of your device using the Download application, or you can open the files you downloaded using one of the most popular applications to open files (for example ES File Manager).
Despite the fact that the Google Chrome browser is also available on iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad, the procedure I’ve shown for downloading a video from Facebook to the phone is only working on Android smartphones and tablets.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone – How to save video from Facebook on mobile (via application)
If you did not succeed in downloading a video from Facebook on your mobile phone through a browser, you can use a mobile application that can do the same for you as a download.
Generally speaking, the applications I recommend you use to accomplish this purpose are usually downloader apps: in fact, apps, available on both Android and iOS, integrate a modified browser with a built-in tool that allows you to download of multimedia files.
There are different types of applications that belong to this type of PlayStore and App Store; apart from those I’ll advise you, you can try downloading others from the virtual store of your device. My advice is, however, to use only those that do not require you to log in to Facebook by indicating your access data.
In fact, it is really difficult to identify those applications that, despite the presence of a modified internal browser, are truly reliable and 100% secure, therefore, even if using Facebook without access is limited to download only to public videos of pages, it’s best not to type your username and password in Facebook in an unofficial application.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone – GetThemAll (Android / iOS)
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
One of the most popular applications that allows you to download video from Facebook is GetThemAll, an app that, available on Android and iOS, is a great way to download videos from Facebook (and any other Internet site).
To proceed with your intended purpose, first download the application from the Android PlayStore by pressing the Install / accept button or iOS App Store by pressing the Get / Install button. On both devices, start the application by pressing the Open button.
The main feature of this application is just to let you download any video on the web, and especially to download videos from Facebook, it will not be necessary to log in to the social network via the integrated browser.
Once the application is started, make sure that you find it in the Browser section (on Android you can find it by tapping the top left drop down menu). Using the internal browser of this application, paste the URL of the video you want to download and press the Search button on your smartphone’s keyboard to confirm the navigation on the Facebook website.
Once you find yourself in front of the Facebook video to download, start playback by pressing the Play button and then press the button with the arrow symbol that you can see in the lower right corner. In this way, the Facebook page will be scanned and you will be sent to the Get All section.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
Specifically, make a case to the Media tab and locate the video you are downloading (that is, the Mp4 extension). To download it, tap the check mark on it and then (on Android), press the Download button that will pop up on the confirmation menu. On iOS, once you have checked, you can download the video by clicking on the download button (a down arrow symbol).
Once the file is downloaded it will also be playable directly in the GetThemAll application (located in the File Manager section on Android, called Files on iOS).
Alternatively, on Android, you can find the video you just downloaded by going to the Download section of your device (usually there is the Download app), or you can use any application to open files.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone – Video Saver (iOS)
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone
Another great application that lets you do this job of saving videos from Facebook is called Video Saver. Available only on iOS is a genre downloader app specifically designed to allow iPhone or iPad owners to download movies from the well-known social network.
Of course you can use it to download it from the App Store, the default store of Apple devices. Then locate the app from the internal search engine and install it by pressing the Get button and then Install. Alternatively, depending on what your device settings are, you may be asked to place your finger on the Touch ID to install the app or to enter your Apple account password. Once downloaded and installed, press the Open button to launch it; in the following lines I explain how to use it.
From the main application screen, tap the text field at the top and paste the URL of the video you want to download by clicking the Paste URL button. Now wait for the video to be processed by the application’s internal search engine: as soon as processing is finished you will see the preview image of the movie appear in the center of the screen.
To download the video from Facebook to your device’s memory, now click on the Repost button. This will open the iOS context menu and you will be asked how you want to proceed. You can save the video to cloud by clicking on the Save to File button, or download the video to your device memory by pressing Save Video. Using the context menu you may eventually share the video in an instant messaging application or upload it to Facebook.
If you tap on Save Video, the movie will be downloaded to your smartphone or tablet memory – you can see it through the iOS Photo application.
Please note: I remember that you can easily find the URL of a Facebook video through the official social network application. Once you find the movie you want to download, tap the Share button, then tap the Copy Link link on the menu that you will see.
How to save video from Facebook on your mobile phone