This is the only solution at the moment

That's when you open the Photos app on your iPhone and find some photos duplicated twice. Pictures you “accidentally” received on WhatsApp. Well, none of this is a coincidence, it is about A bug has been discovered in the latest iOS updatein iOS 17.4, and this has nothing to do with another classic issue of duplicate photo overflow.

For seemingly no justifiable reason, the photos we receive via the popular messaging app are saved twice in the Photos app, which can take up iPhone storage space. Unfortunately, a solution has not arrived from Apple and/or WhatsApp, although it has arrived There is a way to prevent this from happening to you.Although it has its consequences.

Disabling autosave is the best solution at the moment

As a standard, WhatsApp is configured so that all the photos and videos we receive are saved to the internal storage of the device. Then they always appear in the Photos app. However, you can Prevent them from committing them to memory By following these simple steps:

This option must be disabled in WhatsApp settings

• Open the “WhatsApp” application on your iPhone.
• Go to the Settings tab.
• Go to the “Chats” section in Settings.
• Uncheck the “Save to Photos” box.

And that's it, once you do that, you will prevent the images from being saved in your gallery. Of course, there is The negative part of this solution It will not be stored twice or singly. Nothing will be saved, which can be annoying, depending on your preferences. Yes, you can Save photos and videos manually Access each chat, open the file in question and select the “Save” option.

There is another solution, but one that will require almost continuous action from you.

If you don't want to stop saving WhatsApp images on your iPhone, your other solution is to keep the option to save them automatically enabled, but at the risk of doing it twice. In this case the solution is this Remove duplicates using the original option The Photos app has offered it since iOS 16.

To do this, you have to open the Photos app, go to the Albums tab and scroll down to enter Duplicates. All the photos and videos you have stored in double, triple, quad or more will appear there. The interesting thing is that there is an option to delete or merge them all to save space.

At this time, a final solution is not available

As you can imagine, an issue like this isn't something Apple and WhatsApp can afford to let go of. We have tried to find out the root of the issue and although everything points to it being Apple related as it happens in iOS 17.4. However, it could be due to some internal WhatsApp settings that they need to fix.

Whatever the case may be, the only thing is certain At the moment it is a problem that has no solution. The final solution is expected to arrive in the coming days, either via a WhatsApp or iOS update. Until then, there is no choice but to deal with the problem by applying solutions like the ones mentioned above.

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