How to delete all your photos and videos from Whatsapp Messenger to free up space on Android and iPhone? Step by step guide

We have repeatedly seen the benefits that WhatsApp generates, with all its ease for communication, sales, among other things. But, despite that there are some situations that may bother us a bit.

These are presented when we go to our gallery and we find that it is flooded with images and videos received, that we no longer want to see or have on our team.

To eliminate this problem we have made this article as a guide, so you can delete the photographs you receive through this messaging and that you no longer need. In the same way we will show you how to prevent them from continuing to reach our mobile so as not to have to do this process repeatedly.

Where are the photos sent by WhatsApp sent to my contacts and groups ?

The images received by WhatsApp on our mobile are usually stored in the internal memory of the same, except for those devices that have designated the external memory as main. This, as we know, takes up a lot of unnecessary space, slowing down all the processes of the device.

As this is a widely used communication tool, we receive and send photographs of all kinds constantly. All these after being downloaded can easily be viewed in two parts of the mobile.

• We can see them all in the image gallery of the mobile in the folder «WhatsApp Images».
• We can also see them from the administrator of archives of this.

On Android

On an Android device the process to delete images and videos is very simple. We recommend 3 ways to do it:

Clean manually

This we consider to be the most feasible option, you’ll see why:

• You can do it by accessing the gallery of the equipment, since everything is stored here, except the documents.
• When you go to clean the memory, you must go to the corresponding folder, which in this case would be «WhatsApp images».

• There you will select the folders of those files you want to delete: GIF, videos or Photos.

• Finally, this will show you the information of the number of albums to be deleted and the number of items in them. If all is well, you will press «Delete albums» and automatically everything selected will disappear.

As you will see this is an option where you should be very careful, because you will be deleting everything, including photos or videos if you wanted. That is why if you only want to delete some things, it is recommended that you enter the folders and select what you want.

Clean from File Manager

If you choose this option, you should know that this is a file manager, so you can perform any action and execute any type of modification of what is on your device:

• The first thing to do will be to enter the file manager by pressing the accounted for device respectively.

• You will then have to locate and click the accounted forWhatsApp folder.

• Then you must enter the “Media” folder.

• While here you will press and hold until you select the “WhatsApp images” and “WhatsApp video” folders.

When you have done this, all videos and images from Android will have been removed. As we mentioned in the previous step, to discard specific files the best way is to do it manually to avoid inconvenience.

When you execute this, regardless of the method you use it will always be a kind of temporary waste. To delete them you must go to the following:

• For this you must go to the «Settings» and go down until you find the option equallyStorage cons.

• In this option you should wait a few seconds for the mobile to calculate how many unnecessary data are in the device, and among those you will find all the residuals of what you have recently deleted.

• Completed this you will press «Delete» to delete from the system all the files that are not being used in the equipment.

Download a cleaner

In Google Play there are several applications that perfectly serve to perform this task in an optimal way. Some of those offered are paid and others are free, the latter are very good and work the same. One of them that we recommend is the «Magic cleaner for WhatsApp». This makes it easy for you to clean and detect those unnecessary files that are received and sent by this means.

It should be noted that those that you send are also stored in the device and consume memory. That is why this is perfect for both cases, because only one touch will be enough to remove the trash and boost your mobile. This can be done manually or automatically:

On iOS

On an iOS device you have a slightly different process, but in the same simple way. For this you just have to enter the messaging:

• Once you enter you will look for the “Settings” and access “Data and storage”. Next in “Storage usage”.

• Here we will get a list of all the files of all conversations, together with the unit of information they contain. Now we only have to select the ones you want to empty and choose «Delete» . span>

Download a cleaner

In the iOS system you have the tool «Mobile Memory Cleaner» , which, like Android, helps you free up space on your device and optimize its performance. It also makes it easy for you to organize your files and to eliminate the unnecessary garbage you have.

You can do with this the following:

• Sort files by size.
• Filter files with advanced filters.
• Find duplicate files.
• Other.

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How to prevent photos and videos from downloading WhatsApp groups automatically?

Now you will see how you can avoid downloading photos, videos and all kinds of files that are sent to you by this tool according to your operating system, so that only download the most necessary ones.

On Android

To control the downloads of images and videos on your Android device you just have to follow the following procedure:

• To avoid saving files from specific conversations you must enter the chat you want to restrict automatic downloads. Once you do this everything in this conversation will be saved only with your permission.
• Once you enter you will press the “More options” button located in the upper right corner.



• You will then go to «Info. of the contact» or «Info. of the group ».



• The next step will be to click on «Visibility of multimedia files».



• Finally, choose the “No” option and deactivate the viewing of videos and images from this chat to prevent downloading that kind of content.



Now, if you want to keep all conversations with this same parameter, and thus only download the images, videos and files you select.

Then you must use this other method:

• Enter the “Settings” of WhatsApp and choose the option “Chats”, there, uncheck the box for “Visibility of multimedia files” .



• You must also enter the “Storage” section and “Storage usage”. Here you select not to download any file with either WiFi or mobile data.



On iOS

This procedure on an iOS device is very simple and similar to that explained on Android.

It consists of two important steps: