There are perks and downsides to using WhatsApp, the world’s most widely used messaging app. An upside is that your contacts are more likely to be on WhatsApp and you can use the messaging service on your laptop as well as your phone, but at the same time, you also have to put up with expendable memes and all sorts stuff, once downloaded, will sit in your phone for eternity. But that growing pile can be particularly concerning on phones with limited internal storage, and with expandable memory becoming rare, it can be a challenge. Handling all the WhatsApp media and files running into several GBs can be a big and tedious task for sure, but here's our guide for cleaning WhatsApp photos, videos, files, and other stuff from your phone.
With WhatsApp, it's easy to identify chats using a lot of storage and may slow down your phone. Using the storage manager, you can easily sort the files by size and delete the ones you don’t need anymore or have already backed up. Here’s how you can get there:
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There’s a good chance you only have a few (or single) contacts or groups that send a lot of junk. Instead of going the long way, you can simply get rid of their stuff from their chat window itself.
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By default, WhatsApp automatically saves the media you receive from other people to Google Photos or your default gallery app in photos called WhatsApp Images and WhatsApp video. Fortunately, it's easy to access there folders and delete your unwanted media.
If you change your settings, the files don't display in your gallery but still take up space. You can delete these by following the below steps
Depending on your WhatsApp settings, not all media you receive is saved in your phone's gallery. This doesn't mean the photos and videos aren't saved on your phone.
It means they're hidden and not easily accessible. For instance, WhatsApp doesn't make media from archived conversations visible in your device's gallery. Instead, it saves them in hidden folders.
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Although clearing your WhatsApp cache doesn't remove the media, it helps the app run smoothly and deletes temporary files from your phone's memory.
It can be tough to keep track of your phone’s storage when you have a bunch of contacts and groups sending you all kinds of photos, videos, PDFs, and whatnot.
If you fall under that group, you’ll appreciate having some smart tools that make your life easier.
Files by Google was originally designed for super-cheap phones running Android Go-edition to help users manage meager phone storage. As it turns out, you can use the same AI smarts to filter out WhatsApp files that need to be trashed. The Clean section of the app gives you an overview of what’s taking up the most space and gives suggestions based on what’s there in those images.
Fair warning: The Files by Google app messes up identifying the image content sometimes. Although its fairly accurate, you'll want to take a quick glance at the app's recommendations before you get rid of your WhatsApp media.
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Besides that, the Files app also highlights the WhatsApp images folder so that you don’t have to dig for the folder manually. That comes in handy if you prefer looking at all your WhatsApp media in one place instead of getting to them one chat at a time.
Google Photos continues to be the best photo management app for Android, and it’s no surprise that it works well for managing WhatsApp media, too. Of course, you'll what to keep your Google Photos feed organized, or you'll learn just how quickly 15GB of free Google Drive storage can disappear. Like Files, Photos also gives quick access to your WhatsApp media folders where you can back up any important stuff or get rid of what you don’t need anymore.
The backup feature on Google Photos is the most helpful. After the Google Photos app has backed up an important image or video on WhatsApp, you just need to use the Free up space feature, to remove it from WhatsApp
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Neither of these two apps is ideal when organizing a ton of WhatsApp files, but they do help trim down the clutter quite a bit to make it more manageable. There are a handful of third-party apps that claim to automate the entire process, but we advise going against them.
That’s because many of them do image processing in the cloud, and we're guessing you wouldn’t want your personal photos to end up on a no-name remote server.
You’ll probably find yourself scrambling to clear your phone’s storage in no time if you don’t prevent WhatsApp from filling up the space again. There are a few simple things you can do to ensure that.
Head to Settings > Storage and data and deactivate auto-download for all file and network types. Doing this will give you control over what files you want to download on your phone and which are best left unseen.
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Those who just don’t want media shared on WhatsApp to show up in their phone’s gallery app can toggle it off from Settings > Chats > Media visibility.
Instead of a universal rule, you can do that for individual chats and groups as well by going to their profile page > Media visibility > select no.
Note that doing this just won’t show the images and videos in the gallery app; they’ll still be downloaded in the default WhatsApp folder.
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People who spend most of their time on a computer should use WhatsApp web for their chats. Media files viewed on the desktop naturally don’t take up any space on your phone, though they still remain accessible whenever you need to download them. This is particularly helpful for single-use files that would otherwise live on your phone storage until you got to them manually.
Yes, WhatsApp is the app everyone uses to chat (unless you're in the US), but it's not the only awesome third-party messaging platform. Check out our favorite end-to-end encrypted messaging apps if you want to chat with your friends and family in private.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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 deletes everything related to the images sent by us via 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 ES File Explorer Pretty much the same, if we don't find the WhatsApp folder, we can search from the app.
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 pressing and holding for a moment 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...
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.
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Recent updates to the app have made it possible to delete messages sent to a WhatsApp chat. And it does not depend on whether they were read or not.
By the way, if your interlocutor is offline, you cannot be sure that he did not read the message.
Your friend might have seen it on their smartphone's lock screen.
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