It is easy to stop WhatsApp from automatically downloading and saving photos on Android Phone and prevent your device from being littered with unwanted photos and videos.
Prevent WhatsApp Saving Photos On Android Phone
The default setting in WhatsApp is to automatically download and save all received Photos and Videos to the Photos App on your Android Phone.
As you can imagine, this default setting can result on your Android phone being flooded with all kinds of unwanted WhatsApp Photos and Videos.
Apart from cluttering Photo Gallery and taking up storage space, certain WhatsApp photos can potentially land you in trouble, if they happen to be inappropriate.
Hence, we are providing below the steps to Stop WhatsApp from automatically downloading and saving photos on your Android Phone.
1. Prevent WhatsApp From Auto Downloading Photos on Android Phone
Follow the steps below to stop WhatsApp from automatically downloading and saving photos on your Android Phone.
1. Open WhatsApp > tap on 3-dot menu icon and select Settings option in the drop-down.
2. From the Settings screen, go to Chats > On the next screen, move the toggle next to Media Visibility to ON position.
After this, WhatsApp won’t be able to automatically download Photos and Videos on your Android Phone.
Note: This setting only applies to new Chats, previously downloaded WhatsApp Photos and videos will still be available on your device.
You can either manually delete all previously downloaded WhatsApp photos and videos from your Android Phone or Hide WhatsApp Photos and Videos Folder.
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