Some 60 billion messages are sent over the WhatsApp chat platform every day. One of the reasons for the service's massive popularity is that it lets users send and receive as many media-rich messages as they want, which – as long as they've limited WhatsApp's use of their cellular data plan – costs them next to nothing.
That's great news for senders, but one of the drawbacks of receiving multiple images and video clips from your WhatsApp contacts is that they're automatically saved to your iPhone's Photo Library. Apart from being an unwelcome sight in your personal Camera Roll, they can start to take up valuable storage space. Fortunately, you can easily prevent this default behavior by following the steps below.
Once you've turned off the above setting in WhatsApp, you can still manually opt to save individual media files that you receive in a chat thread. If your iPhone supports 3D Touch, simply hard press on the photo or video clip in question and swipe up to reveal the Save option. Alternatively, you can access the Save option by tapping the photo or clip and selecting the Share icon in the lower left of the screen.
If receiving images or video over WhatsApp is sapping your cellular data when you're out and about, you can prevent them from downloading to your iPhone until you're safely back in range of a Wi-Fi connection.
To do so, return to WhatsApp's Settings tab and select Data and Storage Usage.
The options under Media Auto-Download let you dictate which types of media can be downloaded and under what circumstances. Make sure that the media types you're happy to wait for are set to Wi-Fi.
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By default, WhatsApp saves all incoming downloaded pictures to the iOS Photos app. As a result, a single image has two copies – one in the chat and one in the Camera Roll. To keep the Photos app decluttered and maintain free space, you may want to stop WhatsApp from automatically saving images and videos to the iPhone Photos app.
Let me quickly show you how to do this for all chats or specific ones.
Have a friend who spams you with irrelevant photos, videos, memes, etc.? Here is how to stop them. Repeat the steps for multiple chats/persons.
In the above steps, you saw how to prevent media from automatically saving to the iPhone Photos app. But what if you receive a useful photo or video that you want to save to the Photos app. Well, don’t worry. It is easy to save media manually even after turning off automatic saving.
Now you know how to stop media from automatically saving to the Photos app.
But did you know that you can also prevent WhatsApp from downloading photos and videos automatically over cellular data or Wi-Fi?
This will help save your iPhone storage and net allowance if you are on a limited data plan.
This is how you can prevent WhatsApp chat pictures and videos from saving automatically to the iPhone Photos app. It will help keep your Photos app organized with media that matter!
Have further questions? Feel free to reach us via the comments below.
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How to disable auto-saving of photos to iPhone and Android gallery in Whatsapp
Incoming images and videos will no longer be saved to the Camera Roll.
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How to turn off automatic uploading of photos and videos in WhatsApp for iPhone
How to stop WhatsApp media from being stored in the phone gallery
From your profile menu, go to the "Settings" section. Open Notifications. Press the "Sound" button located in the "WhatsApp Call" section. Select "Mute".
Launch WhatsApp and go to the "Settings" of the program by touching the corresponding icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
Open the settings section called "Data and storage". The category of settings we are interested in is titled "AUTO LOAD MEDIA" - tap here "Photo". nine0005
We will immediately give an answer to the question of where Whatsapp photos are stored - in the smartphone gallery, with any download method they will be transferred there.
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Android
How to enable or disable auto download and sync
In the upper right corner of the screen, tap your profile picture or initial icon. Autoload and sync. Enable or disable auto download and sync.
On Android smartphones, you can easily turn off automatic saving of files sent by your contacts.
Open WhatsApp and go to the "Settings" menu. Navigate to the "Data & Storage" section and look for the "Media Startup" category. nine0019
To turn off iCloud Photos on all devices:
How to turn off WhatsApp backup
To save media files to a memory card, you need:
WhatsApp files are stored on the phone in a special WhatsApp folder. But in order for them to be saved, you need to make a note in the WhatsApp settings to always save files. … The application itself creates a new WhatsApp folder. And now everything that comes will be in the gallery. nine0019
The company's clients - individuals and legal entities (except for PRIVET subscribers), if necessary, can disable the "Video Call" service by submitting a written application in the form established by the company to the A1 sales and service center or to the company's official attorneys.
During a video call, press Turn off camera .
In this case, your interlocutor will receive a corresponding notification. When your interlocutor turns off his camera, you will switch to an audio call. nine0005
WhatsApp allows you to stop media from being automatically saved from ALL of your chats, or only from specific chats. Let's first see how you stop saving media from all your chats.
On iOS / iPhone:
On Android phones:
Quite simple, isn't it?
So how do you prevent saving media from SPECIFIC chats? Just do the following:
On iOS / iPhone:
On Android phones:
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WhatsApp is a great messaging app. It has become the contact app of choice for millions and is used by literally over a billion people around the world.
However, nothing is perfect, and WhatsApp is not without its quirks and shortcomings. One of the main reasons people get it wrong is that, by default, WhatsApp downloads and saves all images, gifs, audios, and videos sent and received on the app. nine0005
On the one hand, that's great, because it means that if you want to resend that meme some time ago, you can just dive into what the app has saved. On the other hand, it can be pretty damn annoying because it can quickly take up quite a lot of space on your phone, not to mention clutter up your gallery and folders.
And if you're using a phone with a small amount of storage, like 16 GB or less, you definitely DO NOT need WhatsApp to save hundreds of images to your phone. This will quickly take up your storage and your phone will not perform optimally as a result. nine0005
Do you use ALL WhatsApp features? Check out our guide to the best WhatsApp hidden features to see what you might be missing out on!
Interested in photosecurity? Be sure to check the Google Pixel locked folder feature!
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