Facebook has become a showcase for videos shared by its users, a new means of audiovisual distribution that is beginning to gain ground over platforms such as Youtube in post and share videos; and it is currently impossible to review our timeline without watching videos of all kinds. Furthermore, it is very likely that you like many of these videos that you see published on your social network and you want to have them on your mobile phone, with access to them. Without connection. Unfortunately, Facebook It does not allow us to download the videos published on its platform natively from its own application or web version; Luckily, we have third-party apps that can help us both in iOS like in Android. Next, how to download videos from Facebook on your mobile.
How to download Facebook videos on Android
First we will offer you the most popular solution for Android thanks to the application Video Downloader for Facebook, available completely free of charge in Google Play. It is an app that allows us to download both our videos and those of other Facebook users through a simple interface.
Thus, and once downloaded and installed, we must access our Facebook account with our access credentials, that is, username and password, although you probably have shortcut enabled to your account on your mobile.
Once we have logged in to Facebook and through the Video Downloader for Facebook app, we must search for the video we want to download through its menus; The app synchronizes with our Facebook account and offers us direct access to our videos timeline so we can download them by pressing the button Discharge associated with each video.
Likewise, we can also download it in HQ or high quality or share it with other users through Share, entries located in the same video options menu in the app itself. Once downloaded, we will find it in the video folder created for the occasion.
How to download Facebook videos on iOS
In the case of iPhone The process is somewhat more restrictive, although we also have an equally valid solution; To do this, we must download the app Readdle Documents, available in iTunes completely free of charge. It is a file manager that allows us to download multimedia elements such as videos through a URL.
Thus, and once downloaded and installed, we must go to the browser bar of the application itself and write the following address:
- http://es.savefrom.net/
Now we must enter the Facebook application and search for the video we want to download; once located, we must select the option Copy link from the menu Share from the same video. Now, back to the application, we must paste the link in the address bar former; This is how the video download option, where we must select the quality of the video to download so that the video is downloaded to the app's downloads folder.
Now, if we want to transfer the videos downloaded from Facebook with the app to our iOS photo roll, we just have to go to the app's downloads folder, select the downloaded video and click on the option Edit. The trick is to send the video to ourselves by email so that, once received, we can download it to the folder we consider.