There's another tried and tested way around this where you can take a look at what has been sent and then decide if you want to save that photo or video or not. On Android you can do it by going to Settings, then Chats, then toggling off Show Media in Gallery or Media Visibility. Click on okay to confirm your selection.Īcross iOS, you can stop media from being saved to your camera roll by going to Settings, clicking on Chats and toggling off ‘Save to Camera Roll' from Default/Always to Never. Click on the contact or subject on top of the display, then go to Save to Camera Roll and change Default/Always to Never.Īlso Read: WhatsApp now lets you mute chats foreverįor Android, go to the contact or group chat, click on the top bar, select media visibility, change the settings here from default to a no or a yes, as you want.
On iOS, go to Chat, select the contact or the group chat you want to stop these auto-downloads for. Going forward, you can adjust settings for particular group chats/contacts to prevent media from getting downloaded automatically. Leave out the text messages box.Īlternately, you can see that you have the option to just keep the media and delete the texts. Click on Manage and then tick all the boxes you want deleted - like photos or videos or GIFs, or all of them. Select the contact or the group whose media you want to delete. Go to Settings, click on Data and Storage Usage, then click on Storage Usage. On WhatsApp you can choose to delete the media (photos, videos, GIFs etc) while keeping the messages only. In all this, there also might be some texts that you actually need and might want to keep so deleting entire texts is not an option. Also Read: WhatsApp to get join missed calls, biometric lock, new calls feature soon
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