Is it possible to save a photo from my Dropbox files directly into the Camera Roll (in Photos) on my iPhone 8? If so, what are the steps involved? Thanks!
Lots of people use Dropbox as a simple way to sync all the photos from an Apple iPhone or other smartphone. It’s easy to copy every photo into the cloud through Dropbox and then have access to it from just about any other device you may have, from Windows to Android to MaOS X. Heck, even Linux is supported! Of course, your photo archive can quickly grow to be thousands or even tens-of-thousands of images, but that’s another story entirely.
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Now back to your question: turns out that Dropbox on any platform you’re using is a two-way channel, not just an automatic cloud backup system. That means on your iPhone 8 (or any other iPhone model) you can indeed grab any images, documents, files, movies, ebooks, whatever out of your Dropbox archive and save them locally on your iPhone. With photos it’s a bit tricky, but yes, you can save them directly in Photos too.
Let’s go through the steps! First off, in Dropbox you’ll want to use the “Files” option to see the photos you seek. It’ll look like this:
You can zero in on a specific photo to ensure that it’s the right one by simply tapping on an entry. For me, it’s this amusing pic of my two cats communing about something or other (food? plotting to take over the house? who knows):
Look closely, you’ll see this is photo #2 of 1732 photographs. That’s a big archive!
Now the logical place to look for a “save to photos” option would be in “Share“, right? A tap on the Share link reveals that’s not exactly what Dropbox is offering:
You can share it with a group, a friend via email or even share a link to the photo. None of these, however, save it to your actual iPhone.
Instead, tap on the “•••” link just to the right of the Share link (top right) and bring up the additional options menu:
There we go; the “Export” option is the right choice because we want to export this particular photo from Dropbox onto the iPhone. A tap and there are lots of choices from which to select:
Heck, you can even use AirDrop if you want to instantly share it with someone else on an iPhone or iPad! But for our purposes, choose “Save Image” from the second row and within a few seconds…
That’s it. Saved to the Photos app in the Camera Roll album. Just as if I’d taken the picture on my iPhone in the first place.
To confirm, let’s pop into the Camera Roll and have a quick peek:
Mission accomplished!
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There is no save image option on my iPhone 8. I can follow you all the way through, but have no save image option. I even gave the air drop.
Any other solutions?
I have an iPhone 8. I have never been able to get an image saved From drop box into my iPhone photos.. Been trying off and on for over a year now.
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