How to save WeChat sight videos?

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WeChat app for mobile enables video transfer and sharing easily from one cell phone to another, such as iPhone, Samsung, Nokia, Blackberry, Windows phone, LG, Sony, Motorola, Lenovo, HTC and more Android phones. You can send any photos and videos from your Camera Roll on iPhone or Gallery on your Android phones to anyone who is also using WeChat app for mobile. You can instantly open the Camera app on your smartphone to capture a photo or record a video and send to some WeChat contact right away. Videos shared by your friends through Wechat can be saved to your phone easily. To do that, simply tap to play the video in full screen mode, then long press the WeChat video received in WeChat to display the Save to Phone or Save video option and save it to your Gallery or Camera Roll on Android phones or iPhone.

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Since WeChat V6.0, a new Sight video feature was launched. This is a great way to share short video clips at any moments using your mobile phone. You can refer to this guide and see how you can post and share videos on WeChat from your mobile phones. Unlike other videos, the received sight videos can’t be saved locally. If you try to save WeChat sight video, you will get a note or error, saying “Sight cannot be saved locally“. You can favorite Sight videos, forward Sight videos, but you cannot send Sight videos or export Sight videos from Wechat to your local storage, phone storage or computers. If you want to save Wechat sight videos locally on Android phone or iPhone or transfer Sight videos from Wechat to PC or Mac computers, please follow below instructions.

How to save WeChat sight videos on Android phones?

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Your Sight videos received or sent through Wechat for mobile will actually be saved on your Android phone. If you have SD card or memory card installed on your phone, the Sight videos will be saved on to SD cards or memory cards on your mobile phone. You can find it from below path: mnt/extSdCard/Tencent/MicroMsg if you are using a Samsung Galaxy Trend Duos. It varies depending on the phone model you use. In this Samsung phone model we tested, we found a list of folders with random numbers and letters, you need to open each of them to find the sight videos you sent or received through Wechat on Android phone. The WeChat Sight videos will be MP4 files saved on your Android phones. To export WeChat sight videos from Android phone to computer, connect your phone to computer through USB data cord, browse to the WeChat Sight videos folder saved on your SD card, copy the sight videos and saved them on to your computer hard drive or media library on your PC or Mac machines.

Now you know how to save WeChat sight videos on mobile phone and save the sight videos received in Wechat from your mobile phone to PC or Mac computers.

50 thoughts on “How to save WeChat sight videos?”

  1. Hi, from the favorite of sight not belong to me how can i share the sight to my personal wechat moment ?

    1. you can follow above steps to export the Sight video from Android/iPhone to your computer, then transfer the video back to mobile phone, send the video to a chat in WeChat, favorite it, then go to your WeChat Favorites, open the video and you will have the option to “Share on Moments”.

  2. You actually can root your iPhone if you are on a jailbreak . I am having trouble locating where the sights would actually be saved when looking through the iphone’s files.

    1. we have not tried an iPhone which was jailbroken. If you have trouble finding the Sights videos. You can download the iPhone data recovery software. It can help you locate the videos from iPhone storage faster. This software however is not a freebie. In order to extract data from phone to computer, you need to buy the full version.

  3. Hey, this software look neat but does require to be purchased to be able to recover files from iphone.

    1. You can select the video from WeChat Favorite, the send it to chat and pick up yourself as the person to send the Sight video to, so you will be play to find and play it from WeChat Chats. If it works for you, you can add this Sight video from WeChat Chats to Favorite again see if any update.

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