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2 Easy Ways to Save Facebook Messenger Photos to an Android Download Article Save select photos manually or all photos automatically Co-authored by Darlene Antonelli, MA Reviewed by Luigi Oppido

Last Updated: March 6, 2025 Tested

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This article was reviewed by Luigi Oppido and by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over 7 years. The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work. This article has been viewed 141,898 times.

Do you want to save that picture that someone else sent you in Messenger? Fortunately, saving pictures sent via Facebook Messenger is an easy process! This wikiHow article teaches you how to save pictures from Facebook Messenger to your Android device.

Quick Guide to Saving Photos on FB Messenger

1. Open Messenger and open a chat that contains a photo you want to save.
2. Tap the More actions "i" button in the top right corner of the chat.
3. Tap View media, files & links.
4. Tap the photo you want to download and select the More "..." button.
5. Tap Save to save the photo to your phone gallery.

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1. 1 Open Messenger. It’s the blue chat bubble icon with a white lightning bolt on your home screen (or in the app drawer, if you’re using Android).
   • If it’s your first time using Messenger, you’ll be prompted to sign in. Use the same username and password that you use to sign in to Facebook.
   • Since there's no way to automatically download new images like there is with WhatsApp, you'll have to manually save all the pictures you want.
2. 2 Navigate to a chat that contains a photo that you want to save and tap . This "i" inside a circle is the info icon and will open a new menu. You'll see it in the top right corner of a chat. Advertisement
3. 3 Tap View media, files & links. It's under the "More actions" header near the center of the menu.
   • Under the Media tab, you'll see all the images that have been sent in the chat.
4. 4 Tap a photo that you want to download. The image will take up the screen.
5. 5 Tap … . This three-dot menu icon is in the bottom left corner of the screen and says "More."
6. 6 Tap Save. The image will save to your phone's Gallery.
   • If it’s your first time saving a photo, you’ll see a pop-up asking if you want to automatically download all photos you receive. You should only say “Yes” if you have a lot of extra space on your device.[1]
   • Repeat this process to save multiple pictures since you can't download more than one at a time.
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1. 1 Open Messenger. It’s the blue chat bubble icon with a white lightning bolt on your home screen (or in the app drawer, if you’re using Android).
   • If it’s your first time using Messenger, you’ll be prompted to sign in. Use the same username and password that you use to sign in to Facebook.
   • You can't automatically save the pictures you receive on Messenger, but you can set it so every picture you take on your phone or edit in Messenger is saved to your camera roll.
2. 2 Tap your profile picture. It's the "Me" icon in the top left corner of Messenger.
3. 3 Tap Photos & media. Scroll down to find this under the "Preferences" section header and next to an icon of a picture.
4. 4 Tap the switch next to "Save on Capture" to toggle it on . If the switch is blue and pointing to the right, then the feature is active and any picture you take on your phone or any image that you edit in Messenger will be automatically saved to your camera roll.
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• If you accidentally tapped No when you were prompted if Messenger could access your files and media, you can change the permissions in Settings > Apps > Messenger. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
• Once you've downloaded the photos, you can find them in your phone's Photo Gallery. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

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Reviewed by: Luigi Oppido Computer & Tech Specialist This article was reviewed by Luigi Oppido and by wikiHow staff writer, Darlene Antonelli, MA. Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over 7 years. This article has been viewed 141,898 times. How helpful is this? Co-authors: 4 Updated: March 6, 2025 Views: 141,898 Categories: Facebook Messenger In other languages Spanish Italian French Russian Indonesian Arabic

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