WhatsApp Auto Saving Features: WhatsApp is used all over the world today. In this people chat with individuals and also talk in groups. Every day many people send you videos and photos on WhatsApp.
Procedures for specific chats and groups
This fills up a lot of phone space. Most importantly, much of this data is not even used. It includes videos and photos of many topics like good morning, good night, social etc.
Now WhatsApp has a facility that automatically downloads this data. In such a situation your phone space starts filling up. In that case, if you want, you can stop this auto download, so we tell you step by step how to stop it.
What is Media Visibility on WhatsApp?
Considering this problem of users, WhatsApp has added a special feature in its latest update. The name of this feature is Media Visibility Feature. With the help of this feature we can control the media content (photos, videos, GIFs) coming to WhatsApp, so that it does not appear directly in the user’s phone gallery.
How to disable settings
For this first open your WhatsApp.
After that, tap on the ‘Three Dots’ and go to Settings
Now tap on Chats.
Here, in the chat settings, there is an option for media visibility, which has to be turned off.
After turning off media visibility, no files will be downloaded automatically.
Procedures for specific chats and groups
First, open the chat or group in WhatsApp in which you want to stop media files from automatically downloading.
After that click on the three dots given on the top right side.
Then click on View Contact or Group Info option.
After that click on Media Visibility and select the option of No, then click on OK.
After this setting, media files coming through a specific person or group can be prevented from being downloaded automatically. Along with this it will save phone storage from filling up.