Messaging apps like WhatsApp are a great place to share photos and videos from your phone. However, isn’t it annoying to clutter up your phone gallery with all the WhatsApp photos your friends send you? This usually happens by default and can become a big problem. Your gallery will get crowded. In this article from Zoomit, I will show you how to stop WhatsApp from saving photos and videos.
How to stop automatic download of WhatsApp on Android?
There are two ways to prevent photos and videos from being saved to the gallery. You can turn them all off or specify which contacts you want to prevent from automatically downloading photos and videos.
If you want to stop all automatic WhatsApp downloads, open the WhatsApp app and tap the three-dot button and Settings Choose. Then, to the episode Chats go. You have an option with the title Media Visibility You’ll see below an explanation of how this feature works. Turn it off.
Turning off the Media visibility feature in WhatsApp for Android
- application Whatsapp open the
- Three-dot button Touch the upper right corner.
- Settings hit
- Enter the section Chats become
- Media Visibility turn off
