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Here's how you can delete photos and video easily on WhatsApp

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And save a lot of space.

By Tarvin Gill

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So, you want to delete all that crap you receive from your friends and relatives on WhatsApp but the hassle of going through them one by one makes you want to rip your hair out?

Lucky you because recently WhatsApp has rolled out a storage management feature which will make deleting videos, pictures, and GIFs as easy as pie.

Here’s how to do it:

On the main page where all your chats are, press the three dots at the top right of the screen, and select ‘Settings.’

Select ‘Storage and data.’

And you’ll be able to see an option called ‘Manage storage. ’

Once you’re in there, it will tell you how much storage is used and how much is available.

At the bottom of that will be all your media files separated into two sections: ‘Forwarded many times’ and ‘Larger than 5 MB.’

You have a few options from here on how you can delete these files. You can select on the sections mentioned above and delete all of them, or go through them one by one and select which you would like to delete.

There’s also an option at the bottom which lists down all chats that you had with your contacts and you can delete media files that have been shared there.

If you don't see this option, make sure you've updated WhatsApp through the Play Store or App Store on Android and iOS respectively.

I don’t know about you, but I managed to delete at least 2GB of stupid pictures, videos, and gifs from my phone.

Remember to go through them if you have some media files you want saved.

Happy purging!

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    Want to delete pics, videos etc from a WhatsApp chat and keep only texts? Here’s how

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    WhatsApp saves all the photos, videos and GIFs from every chat when it backs up your chats.

    It’s unnecessary clutter and you really don’t need all that there, you can delete them from the chat itself and keep just the texts.

    Since WhatsApp is literally the most popular messaging app out there, pretty much everyone is on it. While it's great for convenience, this also means that you will be bombarded with forwarded photos and videos you really do not want. 

    Fortunately, for annoying chats like these, both individual and group chats, WhatsApp has introduced a forever mute option so as you are not annoyed by the alerts and can choose to check the messages if and when you want to.

    There is also the option of turning down auto-downloads of media on your account so nothing, not even stickers, will be downloaded on your device unless you manually do it.

    Also Read: WhatsApp to get join missed calls, biometric lock, new calls feature soon

    In all this, there also might be some texts that you actually need and might want to keep so deleting entire texts is not an option. On WhatsApp you can choose to delete the media (photos, videos, GIFs etc) while keeping the messages only.

    On both Android and iOS,

    - Go to Settings, click on Data and Storage Usage, then click on Storage Usage.

    - Select the contact or the group whose media you want to delete.

    - Click on Manage and then tick all the boxes you want deleted - like photos or videos or GIFs, or all of them. Leave out the text messages box.

    - Click on Clear and then confirm.

    Alternately, you can see that you have the option to just keep the media and delete the texts. Pick what you need.

    Going forward, you can adjust settings for particular group chats/contacts to prevent media from getting downloaded automatically.

    On iOS, go to Chat, select the contact or the group chat you want to stop these auto-downloads for. Click on the contact or subject on top of the display, then go to Save to Camera Roll and change Default/Always to Never.

    Also Read: WhatsApp now lets you mute chats forever

    For Android, go to the contact or group chat, click on the top bar, select media visibility, change the settings here from default to a no or a yes, as you want. Click on okay to confirm your selection.

    Across iOS, you can stop media from being saved to your camera roll by going to Settings, clicking on Chats and toggling off ‘Save to Camera Roll' from Default/Always to Never.

    On Android you can do it by going to Settings, then Chats, then toggling off Show Media in Gallery or Media Visibility.

    Special tip

    There's another tried and tested way around this where you can take a look at what has been sent and then decide if you want to save that photo or video or not. This works only if you use WhatsApp Web chat.

    On WhatsApp web, you can check out the media sent on the web first and then decide if you want to download it and save it on your smartphone. Downloading media on the web does not automatically save it on your smartphone.

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    First Published Date: 27 Oct, 19:55 IST

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    How to Delete WhatsApp Audio, Images and Videos [EASY]?

    Do you need to know how to remove audio from WhatsApp as well as images and videos? Whatsapp is the most downloaded and used Android messaging app in the world. Google games Present. Millions of users interact with their friends and family every day by sending text messages, voice messages, and images and videos of all kinds and conditions, from photos of trips or celebrations, to videos of jokes, football games and so on. …

    This daily use generates a number of photos, images and videos stored by on our mobile phone, which sooner or later, especially if we have a device with little internal memory or a small SD card , will take their toll, sometimes displaying terrible message " no storage space ".

    Let's see how to delete this huge amount of images, videos and Audios , simply and without any third party applications.

    Index

    • 1 How to remove images, videos and audios from WhatsApp
      • 1.1 How to remove audios from WhatsApp
    • 2 Delete entire image galleries and photos

    How to remove images, videos and audios from WhatsApp 9003 9003 Following these simple steps, we will use the

    My Files app that is pre-installed on most Android phones. Depending on the brand and model, the name of the application may differ. If you can't find it, you can use the Google Play app, ES File Explorer. Be careful, once this is done, you won't be able to recover images and videos in a simple or normal way, it's another thing to root your phone and use dedicated apps to recover deleted data.

    When we open "my files" we perform the following steps:

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    • Click Device Storage.
    • Find and select the WhatsApp folder.
    • Press Media.
    • Several folders will appear here, including whatsapp images, we select this to delete images.
    • Hundreds or thousands of images will appear, to delete them all, press the menu button and press "Select All" as shown in the image. Go down the list and deselect the "sent" folder.

    Then we can enter the sent / sent folder and delete the WhatsApp images we need. With all images selected except for the Sent Items folder, click on the trash can that appears above. After that, it will ask us to confirm the deletion of a large number of images. We accept and the cleaning will begin.

    We can do the same with the folder " sent ", we enter it and select one by one or better "select all" so that it will delete everything related to the images sent by us via WhatsApp.

    How to remove audio from whatsapp

    The same procedure will work for other folders like " whatsapp video " or "whatsapp voice memos" also called whatsapp audio .

    After cleaning, we will see in the photo and video gallery that whatsapp is missing, don't panic, it's normal, we have cleared all the images received through the messaging app. The moment they send us a photo again, the WhatsApp image gallery will appear.

    To do this with the app File explorer ES Pretty much the same, if we don't find the WhatsApp folder, we can search from the app.

    Delete entire image galleries and photos

    This procedure can be done in latest versions of android . We can remove these galleries directly from the image and video galleries. The problem with this procedure is that the entire gallery is deleted by clicking and holding for a moment on the gallery we want to delete, it will be selected and at the top we can click on the trash, thus destroying everything it contains...0003

    We can also enter the gallery and select one by one the images we want to remove, the problem in this case is that if we have hundreds or thousands, it will take a long time, but we will take care to remove those that we do not want and leave those that interest us.

    This will give us a clean gallery of all those silly images and videos that are sometimes sent to us and we don't want them to keep taking up space and showing up in the galleries.

    We hope this guide will be helpful for you to have full control over your galleries and know how to delete audio from WhatsApp as well as other applications. You can leave any comments at the bottom of the article.


    How to delete all old photos and videos from WhatsApp on iPhone

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    Dmitry Khmurov

    WhatsApp saves the same photos and videos in two places - WhatsApp and Photos on iPhone. You can easily prevent WhatsApp from saving images in Photos app for iPhone. But photos and videos will still be saved inside the app.

    If you have a lot of personal and group chats on WhatsApp, then the media files from them can take up many gigabytes.

    This article will show you how to delete old WhatsApp photos and videos from your iPhone to free up space.

    Before you start remember that you may have important photos, receipts, documents, screenshots in WhatsApp chats. So make sure you back up all important photos and videos before cleaning.

    How to delete WhatsApp media from the Photos app

    WhatsApp automatically creates a new album in your iPhone's Photos app and saves all incoming media there.

    Here is how to remove WhatsApp photos from iPhone album:

    1) Open the Photos app and tap " Albums " at the bottom.

    2) Select " All " to view all albums. Scroll down and select an album called whatsapp .

    3) Press " Select" .

    4) Now you can click " Select all" or mark only the photos you want to delete.

    5) After selection press trash icon and select Delete > Delete n photo .

    You have successfully deleted photos and videos saved from WhatsApp on your iPhone. However, they are still in the Recently Deleted section of the Photos app for 30 days. Don't forget to remove them from there as well.

    Deleting WhatsApp photos and videos from the app

    As mentioned earlier, WhatsApp also keeps one copy of the pictures in the app. Thus, after deleting photos from Photos, you can delete another copy from the WhatsApp app.

    Delete from private chat

    1) In WhatsApp go to private or group chat and click on its name at the top.

    2) Select " Media, links and documents ". You will now see all the files shared by that person or group. It also includes the images you have submitted.

    3) Click " Select" and swipe to select files.

    4) Finally, click on the delete trash icon and confirm.

    Delete data and storage from section

    WhatsApp has a handy storage setting where you can see the total space used by app files, conversations taking up the most space, etc.

    Here's how to manage WhatsApp storage by deleting unnecessary carriers:

    1) Select Settings in the lower right corner of WhatsApp.

    2) Press "Data and Storage" .

    3) Select " Storage Management ".

    4) Here you can view large files or files redirected too many times and delete them on the next screen. You can also click Select > Select All which eliminates the need for manual selection.

    5) In addition, you can also see which chats are taking up the most space. Here, click on a chat to view all media and select all or just the ones you want to delete.

    Delete the entire conversation

    If you delete the entire WhatsApp conversation including chats, all media sent and received by this person or group will also be deleted from your device. This can free up a significant amount of space on your iPhone.

    Here's how to delete a WhatsApp chat to get rid of all media from this conversation:

    1) In WhatsApp, make sure you are in the section of chats .

    2) Swipe left in chat and press More " > " Delete chat " > " Delete chat ".

    3) If you want to delete multiple conversations together, click " Edit " in the top left corner, select individual chats (don't select the group chat) and click Delete > Delete n chats .

    4) To delete everything from a group chat, swipe left and tap Clear chat > Delete all messages . This will remove all messages and media from that group chat on your device.

    Tip: When clearing memory, don't forget to go to the archive partition and delete old chats from there.

    Clear or delete all WhatsApp chats

    There are two buttons in WhatsApp settings that can clear or delete all chats.

    If you clear all chats in WhatsApp, all messages and media from all conversations will be removed from your device, but the chat names will still be listed in the chat section. When you click on any person or group chat, it will be empty.

    If you delete all WhatsApp chats, every conversation and all messages and media will be deleted. There will be no individual chats in the chat section, only group chats in which you are a member.

    Here is how to clear or delete all WhatsApp chats:

    1) Open WhatsApp and press Settings .

    2) Click " Chats ".

    3) Press " Clear all chats " or "Delete all chats ".

    4) Enter your WhatsApp phone number and confirm to clear or delete all chats.

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