How to save everything you post to social media

Back up your social media content: a detailed guide

Want to review the cute photo posted last year? You have to tumbling around the timeline for hours to find it. Rather than just sharing social media posts, save them to your phone at the same time. This not only saves your social media moments permanently, but also makes it easier for you to find them in the future.

This guide focuses on saving photos and videos, as text posts are more complex to save – the only way to save text from Facebook and Twitter is to download your full archive (we will explain how to do it below), while Instagram and Snapchat does not allow you to save or export your instant messages at all.

For photos and videos, there is a quick way to make sure they are saved on your phone: initially shot with dedicated apps that save them to your gallery. Only then can you open the social media app to share them.

However, there is a reason social networks allow you to take photos in their dedicated apps: it's more convenient. To take advantage of this feature and still save these photos to your phone, we will show you how to save your memories outside of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat or IFTTT.

Facebook

There is a cameraicon in the upper left corner of the interface of the Facebook app. Click it and you can shoot and share images or videos without leaving the app. However, Facebook will not automatically save photos taken using this method to your phone.

To save these photos, open Facebook and click the Camera icon. When the new view is open, look for the Settings button - looks like a gear in the Android app and looks like three dots in the iOS version - to open the Camera Settings Screen. Here, switch the Save Shared Photos to on . When you do this, you also need to grant the app permission to access your phone's photo library. Facebook will now save copies of any future photos or videos to your device.

You can save photos or videos manually, one or one at a time. In Camera settings, keep the toggle switch off. Then, after you take a specific photo, look for the Save icon next to editing options such as effects and text. Click it to save the image or clip.

If you want to go beyond the photos and save a digital copy of everything you have posted to Facebook, you can download your archive. You can only do this through the website, not through the application: Open the settings page and click to download your copy of Facebook data, and then click to start my archive. Facebook will then send you a link. Click it to download all the messages, text posts, links, photos and videos you have shared.

Twitter

By default, Twitter will save photos and videos you posted through its app to your device. So whether you attach a pre-stored photo or video, or take a new photo or video through Twitter's camera options, the image or clip will remain on your device.

Where is the text post? Like Facebook, you can also download your archive to get a digital copy of every word, photo, and video you have posted to the network. Again, you should do this on your web browser: Open the Twitter settings page and click to request your archive . Twitter emails links to HTML archives that contain everything you post on the platform—photos, videos, and more.

Instagram

Like Facebook and Twitter, Instagram allows you to post pre-stored images or take photos and videos through the app itself. If you choose the second option, the app will not automatically save the original photo or the edited version actually posted on Instagram. You have to activate a special setting to get Instagram to do this, but it has limited functionality: for photos, you can save the original version and the final version, but for video clips, you can't save the original version, you can only save the final result. Here is how to adjust the settings.

On Android device, open the main application interface, click the Profile icon in the lower right corner, and then click the three dots in the upper right corner. Then select the following checkbox as needed: Save original photo will keep your photos before applying the filter, Save posted photos will keep your edited photos that you actually posted to Instagram Image, Save video after publishing will retain the edited video you posted.

On iOS, this process is different. Open the app, click the Profile icon in the lower right corner, and then click the gear icon. Here you will only see a Save original photo toggle switch instead of three check boxes. Turn it on and Instagram will save the same three options as on Android: original photos, posted photos, and posted videos.

To save a story – keep only 24 hours of photos and videos – Instagram has a different set of options. Before you share anything to your story, you will see a Save button that you can click on to save the photo to your phone. If you have posted a story without saving it, open it and click on the three dots in the lower right corner. Select Save and then select Save Photo/Video (Save a single image or clip), or Save a story (Save everything in that story as a single video ).

Snapchat

To make sure that the photos and videos you take in Snapchat remain on your phone, you need to enable Memories. The method is as follows.

Open Snapchat and tap the ghost or emoji icon from the camera screen. Then click the gear icon and select Memories. Here, click Save to… and select Memories and Camera Roll. This ensures that any snapshots or stories you save in the app will be copied to your phone as well as Snapchat's internal library. Finally, return to the Memories screen and select the checkbox marked Autosave My Story .

After this is done, anything you post to your story will be automatically saved to your phone. However, you still need to manually save individual photos and videos you posted as normal snapshots. Whenever you use the app to take photos or videos, you will see a save icon in the lower left corner, which looks like a downward-pointing arrow. Click it to save your snapshot before you post it.

IFTTT

IFTTT (if so, then that) is a free web service that connects various social networks, as well as a large number of other applications and platforms. From the application you have connected, it allows you to create a small chain reaction called applet that includes a trigger and a result action. For example, you create a applet, if you post a photo on Instagram (trigger) -- then it saves the image to Dropbox (result action).

You can see how convenient this may be for saving social media posts. Suppose you want to save all the images you posted to Facebook to a folder in Google Drive. Create an account on the IFTTT website and log in. Then click on the username in the upper right corner and select

New applet. To create your trigger, click this, then Facebook, and then click New Photos you posted. To create your result action, click then , then Google Drive, and then click Upload file from URL . Finally, click Create action. The filled-in app will now save new Facebook images to your Google Drive.

While IFTTT does a great job of handling photos and videos from Instagram and Facebook, it unfortunately doesn't work for Snapchat or Twitter. Still, it is a convenient way to save images to any cloud storage service of your choice.

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