Maximum users of mac depends on messages application to converse each other of mac or iPhone users, but unlike saving a photo or image from a message in the iOS side of things, Mac OS X Messages app does not offer a share sheet download option or menu for saving specific photos and media sent back and forth.
There’s not much to saving photos and media from the Messages app of OS X other than knowing that the feature exists in the first place. The messages apps in OS X offers the save the pictures more faster and easier, simply drag and drop trick. If you are not aware of this just follow the steps given below :
- Initially from the Message app, choose or create any conversation thread that has at least one image or picture embedded in the message thread.
- Click and drag photo from the Messages window to the Mac desktop and release, or drag and drop the image into a specific folder within the OS X Finder.
That’s it simple, and this actually works with all media and file types, be it images, pictures, animated pics, audio messages, video even archive and Zip files and in group client messages too. This is how you can drag and drop the pictures messages to local storage.
