WhatsApp settings
A long time ago WhatsApp activated the Streaming video function. Thanks to this, it is not necessary to wait to download the video, as it was done before, to be able to see it. Once we receive it, we can view it without waiting, even with the iPhone blocked.
It has always been said that the video is downloaded while it is playing, but this is not entirely true. Here comes into play how we have configured the automatic download of multimedia files, in Whatsapp.
Here we explain why.
Modify these settings in WhatsApp to avoid high consumption of mobile data:
If you have auto-download configured as follows, videos, among other files, will cause your mobile data consumption to skyrocket as they will be downloaded as they are sent to you. Even if you have iPhone blocked or are in an app other than WhatsApp
Automatic download of files on WhatsApp
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If we have configured the automatic download of videos with «Wifi and mobile data», as you have seen in the video, as soon as you receive a video it will be automatically downloaded to your iPhone.
Having configured that it only auto download with «Wifi», mobile data will not be affected.What is affected is the storage space in our terminal. When a video is automatically downloaded, it will decrease the space on your iPhone That is why if you are very tight on storage, we recommend you deactivate both options and select the "Never" option.
Whether you select the "Never" option or the "Wifi" option, when a video arrives and it is not downloaded, it will appear as shown in the following image. You will be the ones who will have to give consent for it to be downloaded.
Not downloaded video info
Clicking on it “Play” will download it while we are watching it. If we click where it indicates what it occupies, the video will be downloaded without having to play it.
We have focused on videos, but it can be extrapolated to any file we receive on WhatsApp.
We hope we have helped you and we hope you will stop the increase in the consumption of your data rate in case you have little contracted data.
Greetings.
