How to deactivate the automatic download of photos in WhatsApp

Disable automatic download of photos on WhatsApp

If you use Whatsapp on a daily basis, something that all Smartphone users do for sure, you will surely receive a large number of photos and videos every day.

The problem is that the app has activated, by default, the automatic download of photos and videos. This causes our iPhone to accumulate a large number of these multimedia files that take up a lot of space.

To avoid this we are going to tell you how to deactivate automatic downloads. We will only save in our reel what we really want and not everything that comes to us through this messaging app.

How to deactivate the automatic download of photos and videos on WhatsApp:

Here we pass you a video where we explain it to you with hair and signs. If you are more of reading, below we do it in written form:

We access the app and click on the "Settings" button. This is in the bottom right of the screen. Once inside, click on the "Chats" option.

Here, in the chat settings, we will find the option to deactivate the automatic download of video and photos in Whatsapp. This will prevent all the photos we receive from being automatically saved to our iPhone reel .

The tab on which we have to focus our attention is the "Save to photos" tab. As seen in the image, we have the option to check or uncheck. By default, this option is checked, so if we want to deactivate it, we just have to uncheck it.

Disable automatic download of photos and videos

And in this simple way we prevent all the videos and photos received in Whatsapp from being downloaded, inside our device.

How to save WhatsApp chat photos on iPhone:

After this you will wonder how you can save the photos and videos you want on your iPhone, right?

To save the photos and videos we want, we simply have to make a long press on them and, in the menu that appears, choose the “Save” option. In this way it will be saved in our photo roll.