You don’t want to download copyrighted content, and if you want to download a friends’ privately uploaded video on Facebook, you may just want to ask them if it’s OK before you go through the trouble of downloading. In order to download a video from Facebook, you’ll have to follow through with a few steps.īefore we get started, it’s important to note that you should hesitate before downloading just any video. Maybe you want to show a parent, or access it when you’re offline. Sometimes, though, a video is simply too brilliant or helpful to not have saved onto your phone.

You can save the video, but that doesn’t actually save the video to your phone or computer's hard drive - instead, it adds the video to your saved video bookmarks so you can find it easier and watch it later on Facebook.

If you want to share that video, you can copy the link and send it to a friend, or DM it to them through the app. If there is a craving for content, that content is likely on Facebook in video form. Facebook is booming with videos: educational videos teaching you to garden or code, those addicting and useless 5-minute craft videos, the very visibly faked videos of people catching their partners cheating on them, aliens caught on film.

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