Facebook users have long been able to download their photos and videos from the social media site, but the process has always been a bit of a hassle. With Facebook’s new Download Your Photos and Videos feature, however, the process has become much simpler. To use this feature, first make sure that you have updated your Facebook app to version 2.12 or later. Once you have updated your app, open it and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the screen. From here, click on “Download Your Photos and Videos.” Once you’ve clicked on this button, Facebook will display a list of all of your photos and videos that have been uploaded to Facebook since you last used this feature. You can then select which photos and videos you want to download by clicking on them. Facebook will then ask you to choose a file format for your downloads. You can either choose to save all of your photos in one large file or break them down into individual files according to their date or time stamp. Once you’ve chosen a file format and selected which photos and videos you want to download, Facebook will start downloading them for you. Depending on how many photos and videos are contained in your account, this process may take some time to complete. ..
Since this is a new feature, it’s not yet rolled out to everybody—in fact, we don’t yet have access to it ourselves—so you might want to bookmark this page and come back when the new option shows up for you. If you already see the new options, then let us know in the comments.
How to Download Your Photos and Other Data
First you’ll want to head into the Account menu and choose Account Settings.
Then underneath the “Account Security” link, you should see a new link for “Download Your Information”. If this link isn’t showing up for you yet, then you will just have to keep checking back every so often until it is there.
Assuming the link is there now, you’ll want to click through the Download button.
And again, click through the next Download button…
And then click through the Okay button.
It will take a while for Facebook to put together a file containing all of your information, including your Photos, messages, and other information. Once they have done so, you’ll get an email that says your download is ready, and a link to click.
At this point you’ll have to enter your password again, to make sure it is really you.
Then click the Download Now button, and you’ll be able to finally download the file containing all your photos.
Once the file is downloaded, which might take quite a while, you’ll just have to extract it to access your pictures and other data.
Download Your Photos and Videos – The Video Guide
Here’s a short video that explains how it all works:
In case you’re wondering, we pulled out the steps from the video guide, since some people prefer a step-by-step tutorial instead of a video. Either way, it’s great that we can finally get our photos out of Facebook!
