WhatsApp: How to prevent cell phone memory from filling up with photos and videos

The WhatsApp It is the most used messaging app but also one of the most used Fills the capacity of cell phones. Photos, videos, and the rest of the files take up space, and what’s worse is that the system usually downloads them automatically.

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This can be avoided by using Simple change in WhatsApp settingswhich can be done for all conversations or for some specific conversations.

How to prevent memory from filling up with photos and videos on WhatsApp

When WhatsApp receives photos or videos, they are automatically saved to the cell phone gallery, which takes up space. This happens because of ‘View media files’ option Active by default, on both iOS (iPhone) and Android phones. But we can change it as follows:

• Entry whatsapp settingsin the three dots at the top of the screen.
• sign in to Settings and select the Chats option.
• Disable the “Visibility of media files” optionindicating that the audiovisual content is automatically downloaded to the phone gallery.

option too Can be applied to individual or group chat. Perfect for those groups that usually send endless files.

To do this, we have to go to the specific conversation, click on the three dots and see the group information (or see the contact, if it is a one-on-one conversation). You have to click on See Multimedia Files and choose No So that they do not appear in the exhibition.

In the event that you want to apply this feature to a particular individual or group chat, you must open the required chat. Then we will have to select the three dots at the top of the screen and then click on View contact or group info, as appropriate. Finally, clicking on Media File Visibility will turn it off.