In social networks, people can include all the information about them that is of interest to them, not only the photos that are uploaded to platforms such as Facebook or Instagram, but also friendships, likes, and a large amount of data that can be phone number, email, and so on.
If you've been an active user on Instagram or Facebook but for whatever reason want to remove your trace on the platform, you may want to keep all of your information before closing your account completely. To fix this problem, there are a few steps you can take to download your photos for both platforms.
How to download your photos from Facebook
In the case of Facebook, which is the social network with the most users in the world, the first thing to do is open the application on the mobile device or go to the Facebook website and login.
At that time you must go to Configuration and then to the option Your Facebook information. When this step is reached you should have to click on «Download your information».
Once you have done it, you will find the possibility to select the data that you want to download. There are several options that go beyond the images that have been uploaded on the social network, among which are Posts, photos and videos, comments, likes and reactions, friends, stories and others.
In addition to being able to select each of these data to save individually, it is also possible to make a copy of all the data and download it to the desired device, be it a computer or a mobile phone.
The download of the information can only be carried out after entering the account password, which Facebook requests during the process as a security.
When the copy has been created, it will be available only for a few days for download also for security reasons, so that it can be avoided that other people can have access to this sensitive data that concerns the personal account of each person.
On the other hand, it must be taken into account that when carrying out the download it is possible select format in which you want to download the data, taking into account that you can choose between JSON or HTML, as well as the quality of the downloaded multimedia files and also set a date range if you only want to download data from a particular period.
Once this is done, it will be enough to select Create file and the data will be copied. Through the section Copies available You can see the status of this operation, although once the process is completed, Facebook sends a notification to notify the user.
How to download your Instagram photos
Once we have already indicated how to do the process of downloading the photos and other data from Facebook, we will tell you how to download your instagram photos. In this sense, you should know that it is a similar process and that, therefore, it will not be very difficult, although it has certain peculiarities that you should know. Here are all the steps you must do.
First you must access this link which will take you to Instagram. Once the website opens you will find the option Privacy security, and then displayed a message that tells you «Get a copy of what you've shared on Instagram », next to another text it says «We will send you an email with a link to a file with your photos, your comments, your profile information and more. We can only work on one request from your account at a time and it could take up to 48 days for us to collect this data and send it to you »
With this description of the platform it will be very clear to you how the process works. Just below that text is the field in which you must enter email in which you want to receive all the account data. After placing it and clicking on Next, the platform will ask you to enter the password to make sure that it is the person who owns the account who is requesting the data and that it is not a third party that is trying to impersonate it. After entering the password, the data download will begin.
In addition, Instagram offers the possibility of performing this same operation from the social network app for smartphones. In this case you must open the application and go to your profile. At the top right you will find a button with three horizontal lines that you must press to open a side panel, in which you will select Configuration.
Once you are in Configuration you will have to go to Security and then click on Download data. In that case, the procedure will be similar to that of downloading through the indicated web page, since you will have to write the email to which you want the data to arrive and click on Request download so that the data reaches the e-mail address.
In this simple way you can download your photos and the rest of the information that you have saved in your accounts on the social networks of Facebook and Instagram, which can be very useful both to be able to have a backup copy of them as if what you want is to close the account or leave it but keep a copy of your stage on the social network.
It is also an option to take into account if you want to clean photos, stories, publications ..., since you can delete them from your profile but keeping a copy to be able to consult them whenever you want in the future. Without a doubt, it is a very useful function that the main social networks incorporate and that will help you when it comes to protecting your data and information.