Facebook now saves the photos and videos published in the story to a file. Before, the content was deleted from the social network forever after 24 hours. With the change, the images are kept in a private place and can be accessed by the user at any time. Behavior similar to what happens in Instagram Stories.
In the following tips, learn how to access the "secret" file with your Facebook stories. Finally, see how to recover an old photo or delete it permanently. Also, check out how to disable the automatic archiving of your stories. The procedure is the same on the iPhone (iOS) and Android devices.
Learn how to access and use the Facebook story archive Photo: Helito Bijora / dnetc
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Step 1. To see your old stories, go to the Facebook main screen and tap "Your archived items". Your old stories will be shown in chronological order.
Accessing story archive Photo: Reproduo / Helito Bijora
Step 2. You can save or delete a story permanently. To do this, open the photo or video and tap on the "…" button in the upper right corner. Then choose whether you want to save the photo to your phone's gallery or delete it.
Saving or deleting archived history Photo: Reproduo / Helito Bijora
Step 3. Touching "Share", in the bottom right corner of the screen, you can open the story editor. Then, you can send it to a friend or republish the image in your story.
Republishing photo in history Photo: Reproduo / Helito Bijora
Step 4. If you want to disable the archiving of your stories, return to the main screen of the file and tap on the gear icon. Finally, disable the "Save to Archived Items" option.
Disabling archiving of stories Photo: Reproduo / Helito Bijora
Ready! Take advantage of the tips to recover old images from your story or disable the automatic archiving of expired photos and videos.
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