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 Akshay Thapliyal
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WhatsApp has currently more than 1 billion users, where people send messages, share photos, videos, locations, and other files with their contacts.
As people receive long the WhatsApp app from the Play Store, followts of photos from their contacts, they look for ways to stop WhatsApp from saving pictures to the gallery. As there could be private or other personal photos that you do not want others to see when you hand over your phone to someone.
One way is to stop WhatsApp from Auto downloading photos and videos but still when a user views it on WhatsApp, it will appear in the Gallery. So to avoid that you can even hide WhatsApp images from Gallery or Camera Roll in Android and iPhone.
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1 Why WhatsApp photos are showing in gallery?This will stop all the images from showing on the Camera Roll of your iPhone.
You can also watch this video:
After updating the WhatsApp app from the Play Store, follow the steps below.
You can change either default settings that will be applied to all your WhatsApp chats or you can set individual settings on per chat basis.
From now, the received media from all the Chats will stay in WhatsApp only and won’t show in your phone’s Gallery. The photos and videos received earlier when the setting was enabled will still be there and will only be applied to newly downloaded media.
It is also possible to configure the setting on a chat-to-chat basis.
The option you set above becomes the default one for all the chats. But there are always exceptions. You might want to show media from certain contacts in your Gallery or vice versa. You can do that as well. Here’s how.
Similarly, you can do so for other contacts as well.
We receive all sorts of photos and videos on WhatsApp that don’t deserve to be on our phone’s Gallery to be seen by everyone. To take care of this, you can go ahead and use the Media Visibility feature.
You can also check our video:
As mentioned earlier WhatsApp also allows you to prevent from saving the images/videos automatically.
If you are not aware of this setting then here we have shared the steps to stop WhatsApp from auto-downloading photos, videos, and other file types on Android and iPhone.
The type of media that you want to automatically download is up to you. You can adjust the settings according to your preference.
Similarly, you can prevent auto-saving when connected to Wi-Fi and when you are on roaming as well.
Also Read: How to Take WhatsApp Backup Using Mobile Data Instead Of WiFi
You can do the same for other file types.
With this, the next time you receive a photo or video it won’t download until you tap on it to initialize the download.
If you happen to use WhatsApp for calling a lot then you can lower data usage on that too. Follow the steps here.
And if your WhatsApp notifications stopped working, read our instructions about how to fix it.
WhatsApp photos are showing in the gallery because your WhatsApp settings are set in such a way. to disable it, go to Settings > Storage and Data > Media auto-download and disable it.
I hope the above methods helped Android and iPhone users to stop WhatsApp from saving pictures to Gallery or Camera Roll or disable auto-downloading of media. If you have a similar issue with the backup, read our post about how to stop WhatsApp backup.
If you want to know more tips and tricks for WhatsApp, check out this post. And if you are concerned about privacy such as who can see your Last Seen status, this article can help you.
If you have faced any issues while following the above steps, do let us know via comments.
Akshay Thapliyal
Akshay Thapliyal is the Co-founder of TechUntold and mainly looks into the strategic planning at TechUntold. He also loves writing articles on apps & problems he faces related to tech. Follow him on Twitter.
How to disable auto-saving of photos to iPhone and Android gallery in Whatsapp
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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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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, audio recordings, and video files sent and received within 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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