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The iPad makes it extremely easy to download photos and images on the web to the iPad. This is also true for photos sent to you in email and pictures you see in popular social media apps like Facebook and Twitter. However, not all websites are quite so friendly when it comes to saving images to your iPad. Whether they are trying to protect copyrighted photos or simply aren't very tablet friendly, the website may block your attempt to download the image. However, there's an easy workaround to that as well.
How to Download Photos to the iPad:
First, locate the photo you want to save. You can save from the Mail app, the Safari Browser, Facebook, etc. Place your finger on the photo and hold it on the image until a menu pops up on the screen. Tap Save Photo to download it.
In Safari, the menu may include options such as 'Open in a New Tab' or 'Add to Reading List' when the image is also a link to another webpage.
In apps like Facebook or Twitter, you will need to click on the photo to display it full screen before you can download it.
Some apps may prompt you to grant permission to your Camera Roll before you can save an image.
This process works the same in every app that supports it.
If You Can't Save an Image
While many websites and apps support this feature, some notable exceptions exist, including Instagram and Pinterest. But you can still save images that you want with a screenshot.
Before you snap the screenshot, try expanding the image to fill the screen by using the pinch-to-zoom gesture.
Some apps, like Instagram, also have a full-screen toggle button if they don't display that way by default.
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button at the top of the iPad and the Home button at the same time. The screen will flash when you've successfully taken the screenshot.
After you take a screenshot, the photo should appear on the bottom-left side of the display as a thumbnail image. Tap this photo to edit it before saving or swipe it off the screen to save it.
When you tap the preview and go into edit mode, you can drag the tags at the sides and corners of the screen to crop the photo. Press Done when you've finished cropping the screenshot.
Where Does the Photo Go?
The 'Camera Roll' is the default album in the Photos app for storing all of your photos and movies. You can get to this album by opening Photos, tapping the Albums button at the bottom of the screen, and tapping Camera Roll.
Downloading email attachments to your iPhone or iPad is not complicated per say, but it’s not very straightforward either. Over the course of the years, many third-party email apps have actually seen this as an opportunity and started offering easier and better ways to handle attachments. However, Apple has slowly closed the gap, and even if there is still no proper file system on iOS, it is now easier than ever to save an email attachment.
Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not perfect quite yet.
In this post, we’ll show you how to save attachments from emails received via the Mail app on iPhone or iPad.
Note that these are iPhone screenshots but the steps explained in this post are identical regardless of the device you’re using. If you are trying to download attachments from your iPad, fear not, because the process is exactly identical.
Where are email attachments saved?
The first question you should ask yourself is regarding the location of these attachments. Unlike what you may be used to on a computer, you don’t have the option to save an attachment to your iPhone or iPad that easily. By default, and assuming you’re using iCloud, the Mail app will offer to download the attachment to the Files app.
If you use third-party services such as Dropbox or Google Drive, you will be able to save attachments there as well. This may be a better option for people with limited iCloud storage space, or for users who prefer a solution that is available across multiple platforms.
From my experience, there are two main categories of attachments: images (such as .png, .jpg, .gif, etc), and virtually every other file type (.pdf, .doc, .ppt, etc). There is a very slight difference when downloading images, so I’ll make sure to highlight it below.
How to save image attachments
When you get ready to download an image attached to an email, iOS will assume you want to save it to your Camera roll. In most cases, this is actually what you intend to do, but there are occurrences where you might want to save it somewhere else.
1. Launch the Mail app and locate the email containing an image that you want to save.
2. Tap and hold your finger on the image for a second or two. The following Share extension will pop up, offering several options.
3. Depending on where you want to save the image, you will have to choose among different options. Here we’ll see how to save the image to your Camera roll, iCloud, or Dropbox.
To save the image to your Camera roll, simply tap on the first icon you see on the screenshot above, the one that says Save Image. Once done, the image will be automatically saved to your Camera roll and you will be able to see it using the Photos app.
To save the image to iCloud, tap on the second icon labeled Save to Files. From there, you will be able to specify a folder where the image should be saved to within iCloud. You don’t have to choose a folder. You can simply tap on iCloud Drive, then select Add, and the image will be saved in the main iCloud Drive folder.
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To save the image to Dropbox (or any other similar third-party cloud service), tap on the Save to Dropbox icon. You will also be able to specify a folder where to save the image, or just tap Save to save the image to the main default Dropbox one.
How to save files and documents from the Mail app
As mentioned before, the process to save various file types is almost identical to saving image files, except you won’t have the option to save the file to your Camera roll, obviously.
1. Locate the file you want to save from the Mail app.
2. Tap on it and hold your finger until the Share extension appears.
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3. Select where you want to save the attachment to. I’ll run you through two different options: iCloud, and Dropbox.
If you want to save the file to iCloud, simply tap on the Save to Files icon. You will then have the ability to select a different folder within iCloud. Tap Add in the upper right corner when done.
To move the file to Dropbox, select Save to Dropbox, then if needed, select a different folder to save the file to. Tap Save when done.
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