On your whatsapp images or videos or any media will be auto downloaded and store it on your mobile device and this can take up lot of storage space and mobile data usage on your mobile and you will ran out of storage space on your device and you can stop auto download of images in whatsapp messages or videos or any files that you receive on whatsapp and save storage on your mobile phone from whatsapp downloads and stop auto download from whatsapp to gallery. So, let’s see in detail below.
Whatsapp is used by all and many of them receive many media files like photos and videos and gif images or any documents and whatsapp will auto download them and you can access them in your image gallery or photos section on your iphone which takes too much space and cause mobile data usage as well.
Stop Auto Download of Images in Whatsapp Messages
Below methods will help you stop auto download of images in whatsapp and save plenty of storage on your mobile device.
That’s it, once you change these settings, then whatsapp will not download any media files like photos or videos, documents or audio files that you receive until you manually request or select photos to download in whatsapp settings and change these settings to auto download.
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How to Disable Auto Save Media WhatsApp Android or iPhone
If you have enabled auto download or downloading an images or video, audio files or documents and all media files are saving to your phone gallery and taking too much storage memory space then you can stop or disable auto save media on whatsapp.
That’s it, once you turn off save to camera roll then auto save media on whatsapp images saving to gallery will stop and it will no longer save images or photos or videos and any other files to your phone gallery.
How do I stop WhatsApp from automatically downloading pictures?
To stop auto download of only pictures then open whatsapp and go to settings -> Tap on Data usage and tap on when using mobile data / wifi and unselect photos and tap on ok.
Media Auto Download on Whatsapp Not Working
If you want to set media auto download then make sure that you unselect or uncheck all options in -> Settings -> Data usage and unselect all options over mobile data usage and also wifi data usage as well.
How can I solve WhatsApp download problem?
If you are having whatsapp media download problems like images not download or videos not download or download failed error on whatsapp then you need to clear cache and clear all data of whatsapp and reinstall whatsapp app and setup again and allow all permission on whatsapp will solve whatsapp download problem on both android and iphone.
FAQ
Yes! You can easily stop any media to auto download on whatsapp and you need to go to Whatsapp settings -> Data usage and tap on when using mobile data and unselect media (photos, videos, documents, audio) which you want to stop from auto download.
Make sure you are connected to the internet and your device is having enough free storage space when downloading media from whatsapp and if there is no storage space then download pending will appear and trying clearing cache will help you resolve the issue.