Comment by Tabular-Iceberg
10 months ago
No, it's also iOS that's arbitrarily restricting it. I opened a bare .webm directly in Safari and got nothing on long press and nothing in any of the control widgets to save it.
10 months ago
No, it's also iOS that's arbitrarily restricting it. I opened a bare .webm directly in Safari and got nothing on long press and nothing in any of the control widgets to save it.
Long pressing on https://www.learningcontainer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07...
gets me
https://imgur.com/a/bseFwX3 on iOS 18, and https://imgur.com/a/Ksbz3zW on iOS 26
Maybe you're holding it wrong?
I think you're holding it wrong, because that's a .webp image, not a .webm video.
oh yeah totally. thanks!
Likely not really what you want but you can make a shortcut that saves the file to Photos.
- Get URLs from (shortcut input) - Get contents from (URLs from previous step) - Save (contents of URL) to Photos
Set to accept URLs and appear in share sheet.
It's not a “phone” problem, it's yet another Apple craziness that their customers somehow tolerate.
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