Digital Technology Photos that you store on Facebook are best downloaded and backed up regularly. This way you can be sure that you will not lose anything if Facebook introduces new rules or if your account is hacked.
Do you keep precious photos on Facebook because it is easy to use? Then make a regular backup of your photo albums. After all, you never know what happens when Facebook adjusts its policy. Or even worse: if your account is hacked and a malicious person knows all your photos. Fortunately, you can easily download a complete album and save it in a safe place.
Downloading Facebook photos is also useful for people who do not want to have the Facebook Moments app pushed on them. Facebook wants as many people as possible to switch to this separate app to manage photos.
Download Facebook photo albums
To download your Facebook photos, it is best to go to the desktop version of the website. Then you can get started as follows:
- Go to your profile page on Facebook.
- Tap Photos .
- Tap Albums .
- Choose an album, for example Uploads from your phone .
- Click on the cogwheel at the top right and choose the Download album option .
- It may take a few minutes for your photos to be ready for download. In the meantime, read some news on our site 😉
- When the download file is ready you will receive a notification.
After downloading, you can, for example, save the photo albums to Google Photos, Microsoft OneDrive or another storage service with a lot of space. If the photos are on Facebook and an external storage service, you can be sure that you will not lose them. You can also create a local backup on a hard drive or memory stick.
