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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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