Thanks to the instant messaging apps that were incorporated as the Internet was used, communication between people has improved. At first, WhatsApp was only used to send messages, but little by little as time went by , more things were added to the app.
One of the things that has been added to this application is an option that allows you to download the videos that are sent to you automatically. Shortly, we will show you how to disable this option and how to hide WhatsApp images from the gallery to protect your privacy.
How to Deactivate the ‘Automatic Download’ of Photos and Videos in my WhatsApp?
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- What should you do to disable automatic downloading of media files?
- Of all the chats
- From a particular chat or group
- How to hide WhatsApp images from your phone gallery?
- Steps to create a ‘.nomedia’ file
- How to see the photos in the gallery again?
What should you do to disable automatic downloading of media files?
In the case of people who have WiFi at home, it is not necessary to disable this automatic download function for the videos that are sent to WhatsApp. However, for people who use WhatsApp with their data plan , this feature for automatic downloading of videos is a problem.
So the reason why people choose to disable this feature is to avoid unnecessary data consumption. Since you know when it is good to deactivate the automatic download of photos or videos in WhatsApp, we are going to show you how to deactivate this function.
There are two ways to disable this feature. One of the ways to disable the option allows you to disable the automatic download of content from a chat and the other way allows you to disable the download of videos and images from all the chats you have started in WhatsApp.
In case you didn’t know, with the WhatsApp application there is a way to prevent the photos that are sent to you from being saved in the gallery . Preventing photos from being stored in your mobile gallery can benefit you on certain occasions, believe it or not. Now, without further ado, pay attention to how the automatic download of content is disabled.
Of all the chats
Disabling the automatic download of content for all WhatsApp chats is something simple that is achieved in the following way:
- Start your cell phone.
- Open the WhatsApp application on your mobile.
- Press the profile image you have in the app.
- Then, among the options that will be displayed, you must choose the one that says ‘Settings’.
- Then go straight to ‘Data/Storage‘.
- To finish, check the ‘Download only with WiFi’ point and choose the kind of content that you want not to download with cellular data.
By making these adjustments, the videos and images sent to WhatsApp will only be automatically downloaded when your cell phone is connected to WiFi . However, you can also disable the automatic content download option for WiFi connections.
Speaking a little more about WhatsApp, you need to keep in mind that with this instant messaging application, you can silence states and deactivate such silence . That is something that serves to put a certain group of people to whom you have added in an exclusive so as not to see their states.
From a particular chat or group
If you want to disable automatic downloading of videos and images in a single chat, you won’t be able to. This function has not yet been incorporated into WhatsApp, but it may not be incorporated over time. The good thing about WhatsApp is that they are constantly renewing it to improve its quality more and more.
For a long time, users have been asking for a function to disable the automatic download of content only in some chats. Because of this, perhaps in the not too distant future this function will finally be incorporated. It should be noted that if you want to hide the chats you have with certain people, what you can do is archive the chat .
How to hide WhatsApp images from your phone gallery?
Before we explained in great detail how the automatic download of content is disabled in all conversations that you have in WhatsApp. Doing this can help you both not to spend your data plan unnecessarily and to protect your privacy.
If you have disabled the automatic download of content to protect your privacy, it is good that you also learn how to hide images from the gallery. The latest version of the application downloads the videos and images and sends them to the gallery so that, if you wish, you can hide them.
Do everything that the next sub-item says so you can learn how to hide a WhatsApp image within the gallery of your cell phone.
Steps to create a ‘.nomedia’ file
The visibility of files such as videos and images can be configured by accessing the WhatsApp application settings in the following way:
- Start your cell phone.
- Open the WhatsApp App.
- Click the photo you have on your WhatsApp profile.
- Then, move on to choose the ‘Settings‘ option.
- Go to ‘Chat’.
- Finally, disable the ‘Visibility of media files’ option.
By deactivating this function, the videos and images that are sent to WhatsApp and that you download can only be viewed by entering WhatsApp . When carrying out this process, the ‘Visibility of multimedia files’ option may not appear anywhere.
This is because you do not have the latest version of WhatsApp . In order for this option to appear, what you must do is go to the Play Store to download the latest version of the app or if it does not enter the app Store on your iPhone cell phone.
How to see the photos in the gallery again?
If one day you want to see the videos and images sent to WhatsApp again, what you have to do is re-enable the ‘Visibility of multimedia files’.