WeChat users may see a lot of interesting sight videos on their mobile phone. Unlike other regular videos that you can save from WeChat to phone directly just like you download photos. You can’t download Sight videos to phone directly. In earlier related articles, we have showed you two different ways to save WeChat sight videos. See this tutorial to save WeChat Sight videos for both Android and iPhone using third party data extraction tools. In fact, if you want to transfer WeChat sight to your laptop, you can also make use of WeChat for web for WeChat data backup. Do not miss out this tutorial to back up WeChat messages & data to computer via WeChat for Web.
Above two linked pages and solutions can help WeChat users extract WeChat sight videos from iPhone and Android phones to PC and Mac computer. You can also transfer the sight videos from computer to your mobile phone if like. It is similar to iPhone ringtones. Although you can make ringtones for iPhone right on your device, but in order to activate the ringtone, you have to transfer ringtone from iPhone to computer, then sync them back to iPhone via iTunes. Only after the iTunes sync, can you enable the new ringtone on iPhone.
The first solution to save WeChat sight videos requires third party software installed on your computer. The second method to download WeChat sight videos can be done via browsers on your computer, however not all browsers are compatible. Based on users’ feedback, it does not work well with Chrome browser. If you are looking for an easier workaround, we recommend you the WeChat for Windows which is also developed by Tencent, the same team who developed WeChat. Best of all, it is totally free to download and use for PC and Mac users. In an earlier guide, we talked about how you can back up WeChat chat history to PC using this WeChat for Windows app. Other than that, it also comes with many other useful features. For example, you can chat via WeChat on your computer; you can exchange files and documents between mobile phone and computer via WeChat for PC or Mac. With this tool, you can also easily export WeChat sight to computer. It is just like how you can transfer WeChat sight videos to computer via WeChat for Web. What’s more, WeChat for PC or Mac does not have the browser incompatibility issues as we have mentioned above. You do not need to worry about whether you are using a web browser which is compatible or not.
How to save WeChat sight to phone via WeChat for Windows or Mac?
Visit WeChat website, and download WeChat for Windows or Mac on to your computer. Launch WeChat app on your desktop or laptop.
Sign in the same WeChat account on computer by scanning the QR code using your iPhone or Android smart phone.
Find the Sight videos in WeChat Moments or chats. Long press on it until you get the pop-up contextual menu, choose ‘Send to chat‘ or ‘Forward‘, then send or forward the sight video to ‘File Transfer‘ which should be one of the default WeChat contacts.
After that you should find this sent or forwarded sight video from both your mobile phone and computer. On the mobile phone end, go to WeChat > Chats > File Transfer. On the desktop or laptop end, head to WeChat > Chats > File Transfer. The WeChat sight plays automatically in WeChat for PC or Mac. Although you do not have the option to save WeChat sight, you can find them from the default directory of WeChat which saves WeChat files on your computer. What we need to do now is to find out this WeChat default directory on PC or Mac, then find the WeChat sight videos saved on computer. To do that, click on the Settings icon at the bottom left corner if you are using WeChat for Windows on your PC. The WeChat Settings pops up, click General tab, you can see the WeChat default directory. You can access this folder on your computer to find the WeChat sight videos saved on your computer. When you open the ‘WeChat Files‘ folder on your computer, you will see several sub-folders in random names. You may need to open them one by one and the ‘Video‘ sub-folder beneath until you find the saved WeChat sight videos.
If you like to import or save WeChat sight to your mobile phone, connect your phone to computer via USB and copy the sight videos back to your phone. If you are using an iPhone, you can use iTunes to sync the videos from computer to iPhone.