This is how you prevent WhatsApp from automatically saving photos on your phone

For many people, it is a source of annoyance, all those photos and videos that WhatsApp automatically saves on phones. Fortunately, you can adjust this so that the files no longer take up valuable storage space on your phone. That is how it works.

All forwarded WhatsApp photos on your phone

WhatsApp is widely used for sending and forwarding photos, videos, GIFs, and memes. That’s nice of course, but all these files are also stored on your phone. You can find them in the photo app or gallery app on your phone. So it is possible that you suddenly have all the photos of your great-nephew’s birthday on your phone, where you were not there at all. Still, they’re on your phone because someone in the family app shared them. Don’t you think that’s a problem? Do you have enough storage on your phone or in the cloud? Then this article is not for you. All those unimportant photos on your phone annoy you. Then you can put an end to those frustrations today.

Hide photos and videos from group conversations

Do you want to download the photos and videos of certain (group) conversations, but don’t have them in your own photo collection? Then you can adjust this in the settings of the chat.

WhatsApp has enabled displaying downloaded media by default. You can disable this by following the steps below:

1. Go to the chat where you want to disable media download
2. click on Show contact and then on Media Settings
3. Tap on new to hide the photos

Now no more photos and videos sent via WhatsApp are automatically saved on your phone. But what if there are people you know aren’t sending random junk to you? Do you want to see those photos and videos on your phone? Then follow these steps:

1. Go to the chat where you want to enable media download
2. click on Show contact and then on Media Settings
3. Tap on Default or Yes to display the photos on your phone

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