How to Stop WhatsApp from downloading and saving videos and photos

January 6, 2022
WhatsApp is utilized by over 1.2 billion individuals around the world, and 200 million in India alone. Indeed, it is likely one of the first applications anybody in Quite a while downloads when they get a new cell phone as it has turned into the default method for messaging in the country. In any case, it can turn into a disturbance too when it downloads every one of the media records naturally, from pictures to recordings to, all the more as of late, GIFs, also sound documents and recordings. These not just mess your telephone’s exhibition and music player, yet additionally, gobble up a great deal of capacity and information. This is the way you can prevent WhatsApp from consequently saving photographs and sound on your telephone.
Step by step instructions to Stop Auto Downloading and Saving of Pictures, Videos and Other Media on Whatsapp for Android
WhatsApp for Android has a switch that allows you to prevent pictures and recordings from downloading. This is the way you can do it:
- Open WhatsApp, ensure you are seeing the fundamental window – where every one of your talks is shown. Tap the three vertical dabs on the upper right > Settings.
- Presently tap Chat settings > Media auto-download. You’ll see three choices: When utilizing cell information When associated with Wi-Fi and When wandering. Tap every one and impair auto-downloads by unchecking each of the three choices – Images, Audio and Video.
To see photographs, you should download them. At the point when you do, WhatsApp saves them in an organizer, and you can get immersed with inept images and another undesirable substance, which is apparent to any individual who opens your telephone’s Gallery App. Nonetheless, it is feasible to prevent these photographs from showing up in the Gallery application. This is how it’s done:
- Download Quickpic and open the application.
- Explore the WhatsApp media organizers. The area of the WhatsApp organizer changes across gadgets however it ought to regularly be the accompanying: Internal Storage (some of the time named sdcard0) > WhatsApp > Media > WhatsApp Images, > WhatsApp > Media > WhatsApp Audio, and WhatsApp > Media > WhatsApp Videos.
- Long-press the WhatsApp Images organizer and ensure that it is chosen. Do likewise with the WhatsApp Video and WhatsApp Audio organizers.
- In the wake of choosing the three organizers, tap the three specks symbol on the upper right > Hide. This will guarantee that the Gallery application doesn’t show them. You can in any case see these pictures and recordings inside WhatsApp and through any applications that let you view stowed away organizers. However, assuming that you pass your telephone to somebody, you don’t really require stress over them seeing the WhatsApp photographs and recordings through the Gallery application.
Instructions to Stop Auto Downloading and Saving of Pictures, Videos and Other Media on WhatsApp for iPhone
You can switch off media auto-download on iPhone too by means of the Settings menu.
Open WhatsApp and tap the Settings button at the base right, and tap on Data and Storage Usage
In this menu, you will see the Media Auto-Download choice on top
For Photos, Audio, Videos, and Documents, select the Never choice
Presently just the records you decide to download physically will show up on your telephone, and you can even decide to stop the photographs and recordings from seeming the telephone’s Camera Roll. All you want to do is to go to Chats in the Settings menu, open the Save to Camera Roll menu, and go it to off. This stops the photos individuals are sending from appearing in the camera roll and assuming control over your matched up Photo Stream.