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If you spend a lot of time chatting on your phone, a good chunk of your storage is likely taken up by pictures and videos sent by friends and family over the years. Now WhatsApp makes it easy to clean the storage directly from the application.
WhatsApp already had a basic functionality to erase stored media, but now you get full data management. If you head to WhatsApp> Settings> Storage and data> Manage storage, you will be greeted with a new interface that sorts items by size and allows you to preview files before deleting them. You can then select multiple items to delete, while keeping the files you want to keep.
The new feature will also divide media into two categories: files larger than 5MB and files that have been “forwarded many times.” Furthermore, WhatsApp will now also display a warning when your phone is running out of storage, prompting you to delete some media files.
I, for one, appreciate the show. Although I am quite diligent in cleaning the storage on my phone in the first place, I had to help my parents do it, God knows how many times due to all the WhatsApp messages they send; it’s nice to have the feature built into the app.
The new functionality is rolling out for WhatsApp users globally this week.
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Posted Nov 4, 2020 – 01:59 UTC
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