WhatsApp Tips: How to delete all unwanted WhatsApp photos and videos in one fell swoop
WhatsApp latest tips: There are lots of messages and videos stored on WhatsApp. Learn how to delete them all at once.
WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging app in the world right now. WhatsApp is not limited to just chatting. Users can send anything from images to videos, documents, and more on this platform. As soon as you send these media files, they can come back to you. These files can be as boring as you like. That’s because so many files can degrade your phone’s storage for a long time. These days, WhatsApp has become so intertwined with our lives that the largest number of images or videos are directly downloaded and are occupying our phone’s storage. So the file coming through WhatsApp must be deleted from the phone. Meanwhile, it is very difficult to find and delete so many pictures or videos. Learn how to delete all unwanted media files, such as images and videos, from WhatsApp.
Be careful before deleting media files from WhatsApp.
Before deleting any data, check how much space WhatsApp is taking up on your phone. For that, you have to follow this method: WhatsApp > Settings > Storage & Data > Manage Storage. Also, if you want, you can check the phone memory, how much space different types of WhatsApp media are taking.
WhatsApp Media: How to review and delete
- Select Manage Storage and then the “Larger than 5 MB” option.Then select a specific chat.
- You can sort the media if you want by tapping the Newest, Oldest, or Largest icons.
- Now select and tap individual or multiple media to delete them.
- Remember, even after deleting media from WhatsApp, it may remain in your phone’s storage. So, you have to delete them from the gallery itself to delete them forever.
How to Delete WhatsApp Media by Searching
- Open the WhatsApp Chats tab, and then tap on the Search option.
- Select the media file you want to search for and delete.
- Now tap on the item you want to delete.
- Finally, tap on the More > Delete option.
How to set the upload quality limit on WhatsApp
- Open WhatsApp and first go to the Settings option.
- Select Storage and Data from the menu.
- In media upload quality option, you will see multiple options like “set auto,” “best quality,” or “data saver.”
There’s a simple way to save what you’ve sent on WhatsApp. But for that, you need to use WhatsApp Web. On WhatsApp Web, you can see which media was sent first. From there, you can decide whether to download and save it on your smartphone or not. Remember, downloading a WhatsApp media file from the web to your smartphone will not automatically download it to your phone.