How to get Meta Quest 3 screenshots and videos onto your phone
The Meta Quest 3 provides an outstanding virtual reality experience, well worth sharing with your family and friends. In fact, the VR headset can 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 your smartphone.
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 older Quest 2, too.
What you’ll need:
- A Meta Quest 2 or Quest 3 headset
- A smartphone
- The Meta Quest app
The Short Version
- Link your headset and the smartphone using the Meta Quest app.
- Put on your VR headset.
- Select the app browser.
- Open the Files app.
- Click the cloud icon to enable automatic media syncing.
- Open the Meta Quest app on your smartphone.
- Tap the Gallery icon.
- Tap the image or video you’d like to save.
- Tap the download icon to save the image or video to your gallery.
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1Link 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.
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2Put on your VR headset
The next step is to put your Quest headset on and enter the world of virtual reality.
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3Select 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.
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4Open the Files app
From your list of installed apps, open the Files app.
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5Click 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.
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6Open the Meta Quest app on your smartphone
Take off your headset and open the Meta Quest app on your connected smartphone.
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7Tap the Gallery icon
From the Meta Quest app, tap the Gallery icon in the app toolbar.
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8Tap 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.
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9Tap the download icon to save the image or video to your gallery
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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