WhatsApp photos, videos taking up all your phone storage? Here’s what you need to do

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Nevertheless, users share and save a large amount of media that occupy a lot of storage on the device. At times media gets habitually saved in the device and makes WhatsApp appear messy. Users can follow these steps to dodge automated media saving.

Tips to dodge the ‘auto-saving media’ option

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: WhatsApp consists of an option just like the iPhone, which lets users deactivate the auto-download feature. However, users will be required to select that option manually to stop media from being auto-saved in the device. Follow these steps to disable the auto-saving media option. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: How to stop ‘auto-saving media’

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: First, users need to go to the WhatsApp app on their Android device. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Go to settings options

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Click on the three dots located in the top right side to go to the Settings option. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Storage and Data usage

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Then tap on the ‘storage and data usage’ option and then go to the ‘media auto download’ option. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Three options

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Users will get various options such as Mobile data, WiFi, and roaming in the ‘media and auto download’ selection.  In each option, users will have three forms of media options like photos, audio, documents, and videos that they don’t wish to be auto-downloaded. Users can choose either of these options or all the options as per their preference.

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: When connected to Wi-Fi

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Users can click on the ‘when connected on Wi-Fi’ to deactivate the auto-download feature via Wi-Fi. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Mobile data

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: They can hit on the when using mobile data’ to restrict the auto-download via mobile data. 

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: When roaming

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: They can click on the ‘when roaming’ to deactivate the auto-download via roaming.

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Low data usage

WhatsApp Tips and Tricks: Aside from this, users can also download media in ‘low data usage’, which lets users download videos, images, audio, and documents utilizing less data. This feature is quite beneficial while travelling or when users travel to remote areas where the internet connectivity is slow.