Deactivate save WhatsApp video - how it works
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Whatsapp automatically saves pictures and videos on the phone. You can also deactivate automatic saving to save storage space on your smartphone. We'll show you how to do this on Android and iOS.
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In the following two paragraphs you will find instructions to completely prevent the automatic download of videos. Alternatively, you can only use this option for selected contacts.
- To do this, open the chat with the desired person or any group chat and tap on the person's name at the top. Here you have to deactivate the option "Media visibility" so that pictures and videos of this person are no longer saved on the local storage of the mobile phone.
- Note: This function is currently only available in the beta version of WhatsApp. It can take a few weeks or months until the option is available to all users.
WhatsApp: Disable video and image download on iOS
Open WhatsApp on your iPhone and go to "Settings" in the bottom right corner.
- Under "Data usage" you will find the "Media auto-download" category above.
- Select the categories images, audio, videos or documents as required.
- You can choose between the "Never", "WLAN" and "WLAN & mobile data" options.
- If you activate the "Never" option, images and videos are only loaded manually at your request.
WhatsApp for Android: disable auto-download of videos and images
On Android, you can easily get WhatsApp not to save videos and pictures.
- Open the menu in the top right corner of WhatsApp and tap on the "Settings".
- Now you will find the category "Media Auto-Download" under "Data and memory usage".
- Here you can see the options "With a mobile data connection", "With a WLAN connection" and "When roaming".
- In each of the three categories, select which media should be downloaded via the corresponding connection. If you deselect all media for all categories, the automatic download of images and videos is completely deactivated.
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