If you have ever wanted to save a stunning panoramic shot from a friend’s profile or retrieve your own 360 uploads for backup, you have likely hit a wall. A standard right-click save often yields a distorted, spherical "equirectangular" image that looks like a funhouse mirror reflection rather than a proper photo.
Before diving into the solutions, it is important to understand why downloading a 360 photo is different from downloading a standard JPEG.
To successfully for use elsewhere, you need to save that specific raw file and then use a viewer that knows how to "unwrap" it.
iOS is restrictive. Your best bet:
If you have a Mac, use the PC method and AirDrop the image to your phone.
To repost a downloaded 360 photo to Facebook and keep it interactive: