After you set up WhatsApp and allow it to access your photos, it starts saving all incoming images and videos to your iPhone Photos app. If that bothers you, here’s how to stop WhatsApp from saving media to your iPhone’s camera roll.
Reasons to Block WhatsApp from Saving Photos and Videos on iPhone
1. Clutter the Photos app
WhatsApp automatically downloads media and saves it to your iPhone Photos app. These are kept in an album called WhatsApp and also appear in the Recents or All Photos sections. This makes things cluttered locally as well as in iCloud Photos. If you’re in multiple groups or have many family members, your Photos app will become a mess with all those incoming images.
A report: Starting with the iOS 15 update, Apple’s iMessage does the same. If you’re not a fan, here’s how to stop iMessage photos from showing up in the Photos app.
2. Two copies of images fill local space
When you receive an image or video on WhatsApp, a copy is saved to your Photos app. And the same is also kept in WhatsApp. This means that the same image occupies twice the storage space.
To check, open your iPhone Photos app and delete a saved image from WhatsApp. Now open the WhatsApp chat and tap on the name of the person or group. From there, tap Media, links and documents, and you will see the deleted image saved here!
3. To hide personal photos
Being an encrypted chat app, you can receive sensitive images and videos on WhatsApp. You may not want them in your Photos app.
How to Stop WhatsApp from Saving All Photos and Videos to Camera Roll
By following these steps, you can stop WhatsApp from saving images and videos of every person and group to your iPhone’s Photos app.
1) Open WhatsApp and tap Settings.
2) Faucet Chats.
3) To extinguish Save to Camera Roll.
How to block a particular cat’s photos and videos from being saved in the Photos app
Suppose you have a friend or a family group that sends tons of photos and videos. Here’s how to prevent only media sent by them from being saved in the iPhone Photos app.
1) Open the person or group conversation in WhatsApp.
2) Tap the name of the person or group Last name you skin
3) Faucet Save to Camera Roll and choose Never.
How to Remove WhatsApp Access to iPhone Photos App
In addition to the above two methods, you can also block WhatsApp from accessing your iOS Photos app. After that, the app can no longer save any incoming images or videos to your iPhone’s Photos app.
Since WhatsApp no longer has access to any images, you cannot send images or videos to someone from the chat. But you can do it from Photos app > iOS Share Sheet > Whatsapp.
Here’s how to block WhatsApp from accessing the iPhone’s Photos app:
1) Open the Settings app and press Private life.
2) Faucet Photos.
3) At the bottom, tap Whatsapp.
4) To select Nothing.
How to save images manually
Suppose you have blocked WhatsApp from automatically saving images to camera roll. But then you get a nice photo or video that you want to have in your iPhone’s Photos app. You can save it manually. Here’s how.
1) Open the chat in WhatsApp.
2) To save a single image: Tap the image > share icon > To safeguard.
3) To save multiple images: Tap the person’s name at the top > Media, links and documents > To select > choose pictures > share icon > To safeguard [number] Images.
This obviously won’t work if you block WhatsApp from accessing your Photos app.
Pointe: If you just want to insert the image into a document, note or elsewhere, tap the image in WhatsApp and tap Copy. Now go to the destination app and paste it there.
WhatsApp no longer saves images in the Photos app!
Now you know how to stop the world’s most popular messaging app from saving media to your iOS photo gallery.
Another thing you can do to reduce incoming frames is to leave inactive groups. You can also politely ask people not to send you useless and irrelevant Good Morning or Good Night images on a daily basis.
fun fact: Most WhatsApp users are from India (about 480 million). the Global internet slows down because of Indians send texts and images Good Morning! Here is a report from WSJ about that.
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