How to disable automatic media downloads on WhatsApp and its benefits

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How to Disable WhatsApp Automatic Downloads
How to Disable WhatsApp Automatic Downloads

How to disable automatic media downloads on WhatsApp and its benefits – WhatsApp as the most popular messaging program in the world is supported by many features to improve user experience. Among them is the ability to send media in the form of photos, videos, audio and files.

For some WhatsApp users, this feature may be very useful, but not necessarily for others. Maybe, instead of being useful, this automatic media download feature actually disturbs comfort.

Plus, if the user is a member of several WhatsApp groups that have many members with very high conversation intensity, it can be wondered how many photos and videos are downloaded without being acknowledged.

In this regard, WhatsApp provides a solution to turn off this feature in Settings > Storage and data > Media auto-download.

There are options for what WhatsApp needs to do when media is included in the conversation, depending on whether it is connected to a Wi-Fi network, mobile network and roaming.

Selecting the No media option in some cases means the user turns off the media download feature automatically.

So, you need to know that turning off this feature also has several benefits as follows.

  • Reducing “garbage” in the gallery

For those of you who always organize and tidy up the gallery on your cellphone, photos and videos that are automatically downloaded from WhatsApp groups are "trash".

Therefore, turning off the automatic media download feature means reducing photos and videos that you don't want to save in the gallery and has the potential to "damage" your gallery layout.

  • Save storage space

I don't know what users think who easily forward or send large videos to WhatsApp groups.

For those who use smartphones with ample storage space, maybe that's not a problem.

However, this will be a problem for those who use smartphones with limited storage space. If you fall into this category, it's a good idea to turn off the automatic media download feature to save storage space.

  • Reduce data usage

Finally, turning off the automatic media download feature is very useful for those of you who depend on a mobile connection every day.

Imagine, if every day, for example, 3 users from WhatsApp groups sent 15MB videos, in a day you could save 45MB and in a month you could save 1350 MB, which means more than 1GB.

For comparison, 1GB of data is more or less equivalent to consuming video content on Netflix for an hour with SD settings.

source: coverage6.com

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