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Official iOS app for Mastodon
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[Feature]: Allow the user to save videos to the gallery #1068

Open testuser51 opened 1 year ago

testuser51 commented 1 year ago

Description

The web version does not prohibit saving videos to a PC. No reason not to allow smartphones to save videos to the gallery

Suggested Solution

The user can download a video

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j-f1 commented 1 year ago

This would be difficult to implement because the default video player on iOS does not support saving videos, nor does it offer an easy way to add additional contextual actions (despite the “…” button with arbitrary menu items being right there in the UI). That said, the alt text button is already something of a UI issue when viewing videos so it might be worth looking into good custom video player UIs. The current player also doesn’t work well with swiping between multiple media attachments, at least on iOS 16.

sallyFoster commented 11 months ago

@j-f1 But all other Mastodon apps have this feature. I switch between your app and Mastoot to download videos.

Moreover, your app gives the option to download, it just doesn't actually do anything when the user taps on it.