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Comment by littlestymaar | Hacker News Reader

long press -> save image/video is perfectly supported on a phone, it's just content diffusion platform that arbitrarily restrict it.

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You can't even make a screenshot if the app doesn't allow it. Phones are broken. (well, the OS on them is).

There's a double edged sword here. Not even talking about DRM.

I would love to be able, myself, decide if it's fine to capture a screen for an application but I'd also would love to protect me or my non-tech-savvy relatives from accidentally share sensitive info (e.g. banking) when screen casting.

In my opinion there should be a waiver buried deep in the settings that allows me to disable such protections with a grace period of a week or so. Grace period is crucial because scammers are able to make people do virtually anything under stress and hurrying.

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!

It's not a “phone” problem, it's yet another Apple craziness that their customers somehow tolerate.

Nemo auditur propriam turpitudinem allegans

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.

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