If you send and receive a lot of media on WhatsApp, it can quickly make your phones memory full. So its good to periodically delete WhatsApp data storage on your iPhone to remove everything you dont need. All the photos and videos that you receive take up space on your camera roll. The same files get stored in the WhatsApp Media section, which creates duplicate content. Heres how to deal with this and free up space on your iPhone. Show
How to Delete WhatsApp Data Storage on iPhoneThis first thing you can do is stop WhatsApp from saving multimedia content to your Photos app. Secondly, you may also stop the media auto-download of photos and videos. This ensures that the vast number of rich content that you receive in WhatsApp groups is not automatically downloaded to occupy iPhone storage.
You can repeat this process for multiple groups and individual chats to free up more space occupied by WhatsApp on iPhone. How to Delete All WhatsApp Chats at Once on iPhoneFollowing this method, you will lose all text, and media of all the chats. You may never be able to recover them unless you have a WhatsApp backup. Heres how to quickly clear all chats and storage taken by WhatsApp:
Now, you may ask what is the difference between Clear All Chats and Delete All Chats in WhatsApp. Clear All Chats removes all messages and media, but the name of the person stays in the list under Chats. If you Delete All Chats, then your Chats tab has nothing listed there. You may try it by going to Chats, swiping right to left on a chat and then select Clear Chat. All messages will be deleted, but the persons name will stay there. Now do the same with a second contact and choose Delete Chat. You will see that even the name from the chat list is gone. Remove WhatsApp Photos and Videos from iPhones Photos AppWhen you install and start using WhatsApp, it asks your permission to access the Photos app. After that, by default, it downloads and saves all incoming media to your iPhone Photos app. Heres how to delete pictures and videos saved from WhatsApp to iPhone Photos app:
Thats all, folks. This is how you can delete media and reclaim the space taken by WhatsApp on your iPhone. You can also individually remove media from specific chats. Just go to a persons or groups WhatsApp profile by tapping on their name from the chat screen. Then tap Media, Links, and Docs to select and remove the things occupying your iPhone storage. Hopefully, this is going to help you save some space on your iPhone now! You may also be interested in:
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