Whatsapp New Feature that Saves Data: Steps on How to view images and videos on Group Chats ONLY without Downloading/Saving them to your phone
Whatsapp New Feature that saves data: Steps on How to view images and videos on Group Chats ONLY without Downloading/Saving them to your phone & How to avoid Auto Download and Low Space – Being in any Whatsapp Group is indeed a good thing but sometimes annoying when people post irrelevant pictures and videos on the Group Chat which Auto downloads to our Phone memory thereby occupying space and leading to low Phone Memory Space. With this article, guidelines on how to view pictures and watch videos without downloading it to enable you save space in your phone is well stated here below.
Some persons have exited so many groups due to lots of irrelevant pictures mostly post on the group. Some persons posts their business articles on Group Chats for viewers to see, like and buy.
Imaging, you’ve not been online for a while; then coming online to see if there is any update, the next thing you see is lots of images and videos that are irrelevant downloading automatically as well as wasting your data (MB), is indeed annoying. So, to avoid exiting the group, kindly use the steps below to stop it and enjoy the group, then fill as if nothing is happening.
When we are in a group, we have the problem of low phone space because of downloaded images and videos.
For this problem, there is a new whatsapp feature that enables you to see the pictures and videos ONLY in the group chats, without saving them to your phone.
Steps on how to see the pictures and videos ONLY in the Group Chats without Downloading them to your phone
Please follow below steps for the same:
- Click on 3 dots shown on the right top corner in the group.
- Click on the first option i.e. GROUP INFO
- Three options are shown below the group name i.e. mute notifications, custom notifications, and Media visibility.
- Click on the third option, i.e. MEDIA VISIBILITY
- Click on “No” option, then click OK.
Henceforth, the media will no longer be saved in your phone. But it will be accessible in your group chats.
NOTE: This is an update feature released by WhatsApp on 5th November, 2018. So if your WhatsApp is not up to date it will not work. You can as well do same for individual chats with all your contacts.
In case of any challenge while doing it or if it’s not working out in your phone, kindly CLICK HERE
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