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iPhone 101: Saving images in Safari
Have you ever been using Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch and wanted to save an image? Well, the 2.0 firmware makes this easy!Just tap and hold on any picture in Safari. When you do, a menu will pop up allowing you to save the image to your camera roll or follow the image link. Apple even places a subtle outline around the selected image (nice touch, Apple).
The great thing about this tip: it also works in Mail. Now you'll never be without your images. Now for that copy/paste (ahem, looking at you, Apple).
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Unregistered said 7:21AM on 7-17-2008
i read that it goes into the photoroll, so where does it go into in iPod touch? (i've not updated the firmware yet)
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James Donevan said 7:39AM on 7-17-2008
"so where does it go into in iPod touch?"
Into Photos/Saved Photos... same place as screenshots.
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Pmosis said 7:42AM on 7-17-2008
I can confirm that it does go into the Camera Roll on the iPhone.
This is a great feature that I found by accident yesterday. It really comes in handy now when you get those "You Received a Multimedia Message" from AT&T that direct you to viewmymessage.com. (On a side note, this site never loads from EDGE, the server always stops responding. Does this happen to anyone else?)
Now after you view your picture message you can save it to your phone and pretend that Apple finally got their shit together and you received it like a normal MMS
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George Allen said 8:06AM on 7-17-2008
"Now after you view your picture message you can save it to your phone and pretend that Apple finally got their shit together and you received it like a normal MMS"
Ha! that made me smile, nice one.
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FourteenFourKBPS said 9:09AM on 7-17-2008
...and then you can copy & pas.....nevermind....
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CaptSaltyJack said 10:59AM on 7-17-2008
Apple totally missed the boat on this tap-and-hold feature in Safari. They could've very very easily made it so tapping and holding on a link lets you choose "Open In New Tab."
Way to go, Apple.
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Johnny Dangerously said 12:03PM on 7-17-2008
@CaptSaltyJack,
I agree. I thought that's what they had *intended* for the update: saving the picture or opening a link in a new tab. Maybe some of our feedback will make a change happen in 2.0.1 or 2.0.2?
PSM said 12:53PM on 7-17-2008
It drives me nuts that there's tabbed browsing but no "open in new tab" functionality. What's the point of that? I don't know how other people browse, but I command-click on links far more often than I click.
thinkr1313 said 11:10AM on 7-17-2008
When I tried this on the Google logo on their page I only got a tiny pop-up that said "Action." I wasn't able to click it, though. What's that about?
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heytpn said 8:53PM on 8-17-2008
You probably don't (didn't) have the new firmware yet. I hope you do now!
thinkr1313 said 9:05PM on 8-17-2008
No, I did (do) have the most recent firmware, and just tried it again and still get the pop-up on the google page that says "Action." Did you try it on your phone?
thinkr1313 said 11:14AM on 7-17-2008
When I tried this on the Google logo on their page I only got a tiny pop-up that said "Action." I wasn't able to click it, though. What's that about?
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blake savon said 1:51PM on 7-17-2008
Great feature! I just finished reading through a detailed review here: http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/news/234961-3g-iphone-review-full-detailed.html and learned a few things that i thought they had not put in this round but did...
My fav. so far is the "screen snapshot" feature! I use this All the time on my mac and now can finally do the same on my phone..: )
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