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If your Facebook friends are fantastic, they probably fill your Feed with fascinating and fun articles filled with interesting facts. But if your Feed becomes flooded, you may find that you don’t have the time to read all of these articles at once. You can Like articles, but finding them later may become a formidable task.
A new feature from Facebook called Save lets you save information for later in an organized page you can access later. You can Save items of interest including links, places, movies, TV and music. Facebook organizes these Saved items into categories so you can find them easily later.
Instead of interrupting your flow of seeing Facebook updates to read an engrossing article, you can Save it for later. Save all your items of interest and then read them when you’re done finding out the latest news about your friends.
Facebook is rolling out its Save feature for mobile and desktop over the next few days.
When to Use Facebook Save
Let’s say you’re reading updates from your friends, perusing their photos and reading their rants. You come across a post about the latest article at your favorite tech blog, The Wonder of Tech. You can click Save and get back to reading The Wonder of Tech article after you’ve finished watching the latest video of your Aunt Polly’s kitty doing genius pet tricks.
You can also use Save to see at a glance all of the places your friends have recommended that you’ve Saved. Can’t remember which restaurant your friend Sam said was his favorite pizza parlor? Check your Saved Places and find out quickly.
Use Save to remember later a song that a friend recommends. Let’s say your friend Linda is listening to her new favorite tune, Move, by Little Mix on Spotify, and recommends it on Facebook:
You want to listen to it but can’t right now because you’re:
- about to give a speech
- in a sleeping baby’s room
- at your local library
- in the middle of a promising job interview
- all of the above
Save the song so you can rock out later!
How to Save Articles
When the Save feature becomes available, you’ll see Save next to Like, Comment and Share. You can also choose Save from the drop-down menu on a post by clicking on the 
arrow:
Facebook may give you reminders in your News Feed about your Saved items in case you forget to go back and check them later.
How to Find Your Saved Items
When you want to read your Saved items later, you can find them by looking in the left side bar of your home page from the browser on your computer:
You can also access your Saved items from your mobile device by tapping the More button.
What Else You Need to Know About Facebook Save
Saving Is Private
When you Save an item, only you can see that you’ve Saved it. Your Saved items won’t appear to others on your Home Page or in your News Feed.
You Can Share Saved Items
Your Saved items may be your favorite items that you want to share with your Facebook friends. You can share with others items that you’ve Saved by clicking on Share from your computer or swiping to the right on your mobile device.
Where to Find Previously Saved Items
Items you’ve saved previously on your Facebook About page, such as books, movies and music, will now appear on your Saved page. They will no longer be available on your About page.
More Information about Facebook Save
You can find out more information about Save from the Facebook Help page.
Your Thoughts
Has your Facebook account been updated to include the Save feature? Are you excited about this new feature? Have you always wished that Facebook had a Save feature? What items will you be Saving? Let us know in the Comments section below!
HI Carolyn,
Interesting feature indeed 🙂
It’s good to know about the save feature and though I haven’t yet checked it out, I’d surely be doing that now and using it too because there are many posts that show up in the newsfeed for which you don’t get time right then, but you surely want to come back to them a little later.
I think I am going to love this one for sure, especially as you can keep it to read for later. Going right ahead to check it out now.
Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
Hi Harleena, I’m excited about this too. I see so many articles I want to read when I’m on Facebook but sometimes it is disruptive to switch back and forth between reading articles and scanning your News Feed. I agree with you, this will be very handy!
I hope you have this feature already. I don’t have it yet, but Save is supposed to be available for all of us within the next few days!
To quote our friend Bill: cool beans:) Cheers! Kaarina
Hi Kaarina, You’re right, this is very cool beans. I look forward to this becoming available soon!
Hi Carolyn,
Facebook have always created something new and innovative for its users. Though sometimes it has also made mistakes by spying into its users profiles to research on some baseless results. But, this feature is really cool to have. There are times when people find it very difficult and are frustrated of time consuming searches for their favorite news feed or any update to read upon. But this feature will bring relief and one cannot miss out anything. A thumbs-up for this to Mr. Zuckerberg
Hi Aditya, Yes, Save seems to be a new feature that is being warmly welcomed. Anyone who doesn’t like Save doesn’t have to use it.
I hope you enjoy using Save, Ravi!
Hi Carolyn,
Facebook is changing day by day.
Again a new change, it’s good to know that now we haven’t need to leave the udates. Nw we can read them whenever we want with this save option.
But may I know about the time limit of saved updates. I mean is there any time limit to see the saved updates? Will Facebook remove them after an interval of time?
When our friends do update at a large scale then we are not able to check them all.
Hopefully this option will help many Facebook users.
Thanks for the info.
Hopefully you are having fun this weekend.:)
~Ravi
Hi Ravi, Excellent questions. Facebook doesn’t Save the articles, music, etc., just the links to them. I am not aware of Facebook setting a time limit for Saved items.
Enjoy Saving stuff, Ravi!
Hey Carolyn,
I like to thank Facebook (for creating this amazing feature) and you (for letting me know about this amazing feature). Actually I’m always flooded with lots of info in Facebook and generally won’t be able to read them all. So reading all important posts will be possible for me in coming days. 😉
Hi Pankaj, Yes, this is very exciting news! I’m looking forward to the Save feature being available to us all soon.
Hi Carolyn,
Just before I got to know about save, you wrote this article. Actually, I read it on one of my friends status but didn’t searched for it. And after that when I got here, I am on this article. It surely is a feature that can save lot of time as sometimes I postponed things. But after sometime I am not able to find those. Well, now I will.
Thanks for the post!
Hi Anurag, I’m so glad this will be helpful to you. Thanks for taking the time to let us know.
Looking forward to this. How long will items be saved for? How about named and renamable “folders” for saved items! 😛
Hi Stan, Great questions. You can archive Saved items for later. They are already organized into pages for different categories. Excellent idea to be able to create your own categories.
No word on how long the Saved items will be retained, so I don’t know of any time limit for keeping Saved stuff.
Hi Carolyn,
This might be useful. My feed does get crowded and saving local news for example could be useful.
I have a question! Do you know the maximum number of friends allowed on Facebook? I’m probably no where near, but I keep getting more requests so it might be useful to know. I’ve just joined a group started by a French actress, it could be interesting… 🙂
Hi Mike, Yes if your friends share interesting articles, you can save them to find them later when you have a chance to read them.
Your can have a maximum of 5000 friends on Facebook.
wow I didnt know about this new feature, its very useful for me because I usually visit a lot of fan pages and profiles and sometimes I have run out to do something and I just close my laptop and when I log in again I lose all the tabs I had opened on my browser. with this feature I could now save everything and go back to it whenever I have time. Thanks for sharing great article 🙂
Hi Kevin, What browser do you use? You may be able to reopen your tabs when you reopen your browser.
But even so, Saving articles may be better for you than keeping a bunch of tabs open.
Hello Carolyn,
Thank you for informative post. Yes face book introducing many features day by day, this save feature is very useful one. I have one doubt, when did they introduce this Save feature ? daily i’m using face book but never found this cool feature. Thank you again for this post and keep updating stuff like this. good job.
Hi Deepi, Welcome to The Wonder of Tech! Yes, I’ve been checking daily too but I don’t have the Save feature yet either. Facebook’s announcement said that Save would be rolled out to everyone within the next few days so we should be seeing it very shortly.
You’re right, Deepi, this feature will be very cool!
I wish deleting things on facebook was that easy!
Hi Sandra, Yes, that would be great!
I noticed this very nifty feature the other week! Thanks for writing about this, I came to your article to see if you had additional info about something I noticed…the save feature is seemingly not available for every post. Even on official page posts, I only see the save option on just a few, random items. Do you know why this is? As an official page, is there something that the page admin needs to do in order to make the save feature an option for its fans? I definitely have not seen the save feature available as an option for me for personal profile status updates. Or maybe Facebook needs more time to work out the implementation kinks? As always, I love your blog articles, thank you for sharing such great information with us all! Hugs, Rachel
Hi Rachel, Thank you for your kind words. Facebook Save is in its beginning stages and the hope is that it will become optimized for Pages as well. For example, Page administrators would benefit from analytics showing how often its posts are Saved.
I don’t have the Save feature yet either so I predict that Facebook will complete the rollout then add to the features of Save. I’m looking forward to getting it.