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How to get Meta Quest 3 screenshots and videos onto your phone

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TheMeta Quest 3provides an outstanding virtual reality experience, well worth sharing with your family and friends. In fact, theVR headsetcan take screenshots and record videos for this exact reason, but how do you get them from your headset to your phone?

While it was once a bit of a process getting captures from your headset to a smartphone or other device for sharing, Meta has since streamlined the process. You just need the Meta Quest app on yoursmartphone.

With that in mind, here’s how to get Quest 3 screenshots and videos onto your smartphone. It’s worth noting that the process is the same for the olderQuest 2, too.

What you’ll need:

The Short Version

Step1

Link your headset and the smartphone using the Meta Quest app

The first step is to link your VR headset and your smartphone using the Meta Quest app – something most users would’ve done during the initial headset setup. If you haven’t, simply log in with your associated Meta or Facebook account to begin the linking process.

Step2

Put on your VR headset

The next step is to put your Quest headset on and enter the world of virtual reality.

Step3

Select the app browser

From the main toolbar, select the app browser. It’s the last icon on the right-hand side of the toolbar, for those unfamiliar.

Step4

Open the Files app

From your list of installed apps, open the Files app.

Step5

Click the cloud icon to enable automatic media syncing

Click the cloud icon in the top-right corner to enable automatic media syncing if it isn’t on already.

Step6

Open the Meta Quest app on your smartphone

Take off your headset and open the Meta Quest app on your connected smartphone.

Step7

From the Meta Quest app, tap the Gallery icon in the app toolbar.

Step8

Tap the image or video you’d like to save

You’ll be presented with a list of recently captured screenshots and videos. To save a photo or video to your smartphone, tap it.

Step9

From the preview, tap the download icon at the top of the screen to save the image or video to your phone’s gallery, ready for sharing on social media. It’s worth noting that longer video downloads may take a while to complete.

Troubleshooting

For VR content to be synced with your smartphone, it must be both on and idle. The sync will stop if you open another app in VR, if the headset disconnects from Wi-Fi or is turned off completely.

Longer video captures can take a while to sync with your headset. It’s also worth noting that the app won’t automatically sync videos longer than one minute. For that, you’ll need to manually sync the video from the Files app in-headset.

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Lewis is the Mobile Editor of Trusted Reviews with plenty of phone experience, from the Nokia 3210 to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. He has been in the tech industry writing about phones, headphones, tablets,…

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