Receiving audios on WhatsApp is common, as it is a way of to talk with friends on messenger without having to make a call and interrupt your day. Of course, there are always questions surrounding the practice, such as the amount of storage occupied by the audio in the cell phone’s internal memory or if there is a time limit for this type of message to be recorded. Keep reading to find out and put an end to your doubts!
Very long audios on WhatsApp
Over the years, the messenger received several updates. Among them, the possibility of sending and receiving audios. Recently, a novelty was also added: the change in the playback speed of voice messages. Therefore, we increasingly observe the frequency of audios that are sent and received;
After all, who doesn’t want to enjoy the ease of recording a message while doing other tasks?
When we receive a huge audio, of ten or more minutes, we can ask ourselves: is there a time limit to record audio in WhatsApp? And the answer is… no! Unlike video sharing, in which the application requires a total size of up to 16MB, there is no time limit for sending audio.
Therefore, the content can be recorded freely and for hours.
Even if there is no time limitation, the fact is that media files on WhatsApp consume the phone’s internal memory. When an audio is huge, it means you will have less storage on your phone.
People with older devices, with 16GB or 32GB memories, can be harmed when receiving or sending huge audios. The device may stop opening WhatsApp or even not download the sent audios.
What to do to free up more space?
The app’s audios are stored on the device and also in the backup of conversations.
According to the size of message of voice increases, the space occupied in the device’s memory and in the backup as well. To manage the internal storage of the device and delete the sent and received audio messages, the only way out is to completely delete the conversations.
By managing media storage on WhatsApp, the app allows only image media, videos and forwarded voice messages to be deleted. Audios that we send to our friends do not appear in this option and must be deleted individually.
