Facebook isn't the best place for keeping your photos, but its convenience makes it a decent space for sharing them. If you lot want to download a photograph you've uploaded (or fifty-fifty one your friend has uploaded), here's how.

Download Individual Photos

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Discover the photograph you desire to download on Facebook. This can be any photo you can view on Facebook, no matter whether yours, a friend'due south, or a complete stranger's that has made their photos public. Just remember, unless you took the photo yourself, information technology doesn't vest to you and y'all can't do whatsoever you want with it.

Hover over the image until the photograph'due south (and the Like, Comment, and Share buttons at the bottom) appear.

Click the "Options" link in the bottom right corner, so select the "Download" command.

The photo should now download in the highest resolution Facebook has on their servers.

On mobile apps, the procedure is similar. Open the photograph you want to save, tap the three little dots in the peak correct corner, and then tap the "Relieve Photo" command.

Download All Your Photos At Once

Facebook also has a tool that lets you download all your information—including wall posts, chat letters, Most Yous information, and, of course, photos. On the Facebook site, click the downward facing pointer in the meridian right corner, and then select the "Settings" pick. You can as well go directly to Facebook.com/Settings.

Click "Download a Copy of Your Facebook Information" at the bottom of the "Full general Account Settings" page.

Next, click the "Start My Archive" push.

You need to enter your password to verify. Yous're and then told that information technology will take Facebook a few moments to gather your data, and that they'll email you when the annal is ready.

When the email arrives, click the link it provides.

On the resulting page, click the "Download" push, type your password again, and your annal volition get-go downloading. If you lot've used Facebook a lot, the download could be quite large. Mine was 1.58 GB!

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The annal downloads as a .Cipher file. Extract it, and then navigate to the "Photos" folder.

Here, you lot'll detect subfolders with every album and photo y'all've ever posted to Facebook. At that place are likewise HTML files you can open to evidence a rough, offline version of Facebook in your browser that might brand the photos easier to scan.

Information technology might accept a while to dig through and find the correct photos, but they volition all be there.

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