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Can't save a video to my cameral roll from Google drive, WeTransfer, and others.

Hi all,

I am having issues to save any video stored on the above mentioned clouds to my iPhone specifically to my camera roll. I've tried force restarting it, checking the storage, etc. Every time I try to save a video to my camera roll (Checking the video link on google drive app, click the three dots, then choose "send a copy" and then click save the video, nothing happens.


I really appreciate your support.

It's an iPhone 12, latest update and btw I've also the google drive app latest on my store.

Posted on May 3, 2021 4:12 AM

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Posted on May 3, 2021 4:30 AM

Please check the video format that you have on Google Drive. The media format supported are shown below


Video formats

  • Animated GIFs
  • Apple Animation codec
  • Apple Intermediate codec
  • Apple ProRes (all versions)
  • Apple ProRes RAW and Apple ProRes RAW HQ
  • AVCHD (including AVCCAM, AVCHD Lite, and NXCAM)
  • AVC-ULTRA (including AVC-LongG, AVC-Intra Class 50/100/200/4:4:4, and AVC-Intra LT)
  • Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 (interpreted using static HLG tone mapping)
  • DV (including DVCAM, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO50)
  • DVCPRO HD
  • H.264 (AVC)
  • H.265 (HEVC)
  • HDV
  • iFrame
  • Motion JPEG
  • MPEG IMX (30 Mbps, 40 Mbps, 50 Mbps)
  • QuickTime formats (in macOS Catalina, Motion does not support 32-bit-only QuickTime formats) 
  • Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit 4:2:2
  • XDCAM HD/EX/HD422
  • XF-AVC
  • XF-HEVC


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May 3, 2021 4:30 AM in response to AmirHMS

Please check the video format that you have on Google Drive. The media format supported are shown below


Video formats

  • Animated GIFs
  • Apple Animation codec
  • Apple Intermediate codec
  • Apple ProRes (all versions)
  • Apple ProRes RAW and Apple ProRes RAW HQ
  • AVCHD (including AVCCAM, AVCHD Lite, and NXCAM)
  • AVC-ULTRA (including AVC-LongG, AVC-Intra Class 50/100/200/4:4:4, and AVC-Intra LT)
  • Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 (interpreted using static HLG tone mapping)
  • DV (including DVCAM, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO50)
  • DVCPRO HD
  • H.264 (AVC)
  • H.265 (HEVC)
  • HDV
  • iFrame
  • Motion JPEG
  • MPEG IMX (30 Mbps, 40 Mbps, 50 Mbps)
  • QuickTime formats (in macOS Catalina, Motion does not support 32-bit-only QuickTime formats) 
  • Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit 4:2:2
  • XDCAM HD/EX/HD422
  • XF-AVC
  • XF-HEVC


Can't save a video to my cameral roll from Google drive, WeTransfer, and others.

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