Cant Save Pictures in Safari on iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 7? Heres Why!

Cant Save Pictures in Safari on iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 7? Heres Why!

Some newer iPhone users have discovered that they are seemingly unable to . Typically the attempt to save a web picture goes as follows; an iPhone user attempts to tap-and-hold on an image found on the web, but rather than the familiar Save and Copy menu appearing on screen, instead the image appears to float above the webpage with a little arrow atop it, and then it eventually opens in a new window with the picture. This is often the case with any image that is a link too. Rest assured that you can continue to save images from Safari directly to an iPhone, and the method youre already familiar with is what youll be using. That probably sounds confusing, so lets explain this a bit, because newer iPhone models work slightly differently. If youre trying to save a picture from the web with Safari to a newer iPhone by , and you find the picture pops up into a new screen window instead of bringing up the Save menu, the reason is 3D Touch. 3D Touch is a featured introduced a while back that allows the iPhone screen to be pressure sensitive not just touch sensitive, but pressure sensitive too. That added sensitivity to pressure of 3D Touch makes a firmer press trigger different actions than you may be accustomed to. This applies to all newer iPhone models that include 3D Touch, including iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, or iPhone 6S and iPhone 6s Plus, and presumably going forward. Older iPhone and all iPad models dont have 3D Touch, and thus they arent going to find this interactivity change. If you dont like how the iPhone screen is now sensitive to pressure as well as touch, the best thing to do is disable 3D Touch on the iPhone. Thats it, 3D Touch is disabled so you can save a picture using the regular old tap-and-hold Save trick. Now go ahead and try saving a picture from Safari to iPhone again: The picture will save to your Photos app Camera Roll as usual. With 3D Touch disabled, you can open up Safari, browse to any webpage, and try the traditional , you will always see the familiar Save and Copy menu again, rather than the 3D Touch preview. If you dont want to disable 3D Touch, you just need to adjust how you use your iPhone slightly so that rather than pressing down, youre simply tapping and resting on the screen without any pressure. It sounds a little confusing, but practice makes perfect. The familiar tap-and-hold trick to save a picture from Safari to the iPhone still works, but the key thing to remember is that the iPhone screen is now pressure sensitive because of 3D Touch. Thus you will want to tap-and-hold as usual on the screen itself, so its more like a touch-and-hold If you see the picture pop-up into a new screen, you applied pressure and 3D Touch was activated instead. You have to touch the screen without any pressure. The screenshot below shows this happening with a 3D Touch preview, this is not what you want to see if you want to save a picture from the web to the iPhone: One helpful trick for this is to to require a firmer press, which can help prevent accidentally triggering 3D Touch instead of the action you may have intended. Or, you can as detailed above. Its up to you. Many users for this very reason amongst others, whether its because youre not able to easily save images from the web as we describe here, or perhaps a perceived , or perform other tasks as a result of 3D Touch triggering instead of the expected behavior, simply disabling 3D Touch will allow the iPhone to behave as it did before 3D Touch existed. 3D Touch is a cool feature, but it can be confusing to use, so often simply turning it off makes for a simpler user experience. Youll miss out on , but if you werent using them anyway you shouldnt miss it much.