Under the motto 'every beginning is difficult' this time again a classic. Because how do you save images found on a website to the camera roll of your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, running on iOS or iPadOS...? For example, you can save images from Safari.
Of course, it should be no secret to a seasoned user of iOS (or iPadOS) how to save images from websites open in Safari to your device's camera roll. But for beginners it can be a bit of a puzzle to get this done. The key to success simply lies in pressing longer on an image in a site. Usually (!) a balloon appears with the option Add to Photos, as well as a thumbnail of the selected image.
Tip: first tap briefly on the desired image, often you will see that websites treat you to a larger image in a higher resolution. That photo can of course also be saved (usually) by long pressing.
You can also instead of Add to Photos tap Part. Contrary to what you might expect, this only allows you to share the link to the image with apps, not the image itself. So you cannot open an image directly from the browser in a photo editor, you must first save the image locally on the camera roll. Makes sense, but you have to know.
Mostly
We didn't use the word 'usually' for nothing above. Some websites have disabled the 'right-click menu'. With this they try - in a somewhat clumsy way - to prevent visitors from selecting and copying text or saving images. Because long pressing is actually a kind of right mouse click, you can't save images under iOS that way. In that case you can always take a screenshot. You do this on more recent i-devices by simultaneously pressing the power and volume up buttons (on older devices, press the power and home buttons). You will then hear a release sound from a camera, after which a thumbnail of the captured screenshot appears. When that disappears it is saved to the camera roll.
To remove unnecessary elements from such a screenshot, open the image in the Photos app and tap Change. Then tap the crop button in the form of a square whose lines extend just a little too far. Drag the cropping frame exactly around the desired image and tap Ready. Now you have saved the image locally!
