How To Make WhatsApp Stop Exhausting Your Phone's Storage

Amongst the most popular messaging platforms in the world, Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp is widening its user base through expanding the portfolio of features. Being used by people from various age-groups both youngsters and senior citizens alike. However, every platform has its own problem.

One problem going along with useful features is leaving our phones short of the precious memory space. It should be noted that the main factor comes from the media files including images, GIFs, videos, etc inside the chat boxes, not from the text messages data. Those contents are said to consume a massive part of the storage.

If you find your phone work slower than the usual performance and you have used WhatsApp for a long time, here are a bunch of steps that you can use to prevent the app from eating your phone’s storage space.

Case 1: You want to prevent the files to be saved automatically in your phone through WhatsApp.

- Open the app directly from your phone.

- On the top right corner of the interface, tap on the three dots.

- Choose the Settings.

- Tap on the Chats inside the Settings menu.

- Finally, toggle the Media Visibility option.

Case 2: You still want the app to keep saving contents received, but not from some specific individuals or groups.

- Open your WhatsApp.

- Choose a specific window of the individual or group you want to modify.

- Click on the contact.

- Choose the Media Visibility option.

- Tap on "No" after the app asked you if you want the newly downloaded media from that particular chat to save in your gallery.

Case 3: You owns an iPhone

- Open your WhatsApp.

- Choose the Settings

- Choose the Data and Storage Usage option. You can see detailed selections of media types you want to be downloaded: Photos, Audios, Videos, Documents. Now you can select some of them selectively.

- If you want your iPhone to save nothing from WhatsApp, choose Never.