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With this Whatsapp trick you can dispose of data waste on your cell phone
Surely you do not know all Whatsapp functions. Here we present a particularly practical one.
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Anyone who sends a lot of files via Whatsapp can quickly have a problem with the memory of the cell phone. But there is a feature that can help.
This article first appeared on RTL.de.
Who doesn’t know it: A funny video here, a cute cat photo there and the mobile phone memory is full of files that were sent via Whatsapp – and these are real memory hogs! You can change that with a special feature in the messenger service.
The feature makes managing videos and images sent via Whatsapp really user-friendly. How it works?
This is how you find the tidying function on Whatsapp
- Via the settings in the app you can access “Manage storage” via the menu item “Storage and data”.
- Conveniently, Whatsapp has listed the files with thumbnails that use the most storage space here in a clear manner. Sorted under the items “Larger than 5 MB” and “Frequently forwarded” you will find videos & Co. that take up the most of your storage space.
- With one click on the files you can now easily delete them without having to search through each chat history individually.
- Not cleaned up enough yet? Below you will find a list of all chats – and how much storage space they use. Here, too, you can simply delete the files sent within the chats – and your smartphone will be tidy again in no time!
Alternatively, you can also use the “self-deleting (previously: expired) messages” function to save storage space in advance. Because this function automatically deletes the large files that you have sent.
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