With a staggering user base of over 1.5 billion people, WhatsApp is one of the most well-known messaging services available. Because it makes international communication simple, many people now use it as their preferred app. We receive hundreds of photographs and movies every day on various groups and private chats on WhatsApp in addition to everything else we do on the app. These WhatsApp media files can easily turn the gallery on your phone into a disorganised mess. Therefore, here’s how to hide your WhatsApp media so that it doesn’t appear in the phone’s gallery.
Nota Bene: Although the option to hide WhatsApp photographs from the gallery is currently in beta for Android devices, it is already accessible on iOS. It’ll be released soon.
Hide All WhatsApp Photos and Videos from Gallery
If you receive a tonne of GIFs, photos, and videos on WhatsApp daily like I do, you probably wish you could just stop them all from turning your phone’s gallery app into a meme wasteland. Follow the instructions below to complete the process that WhatsApp has made exceedingly simple with a recent update.
You can still see previously downloaded photos and videos in your phone’s gallery. This setting solely inhibits the appearance of brand-new photos.
Hide All WhatsApp Media in Android Phones
- In the WhatsApp app, tap on the three dot menu icon on the top right, and then tap on Settings.
- Here, go to Chats , and uncheck the box next to Show media in gallery.
That’s it; moving forward, any photographs and videos you send via WhatsApp won’t appear in the gallery on your phone.
Hide All WhatsApp Media in iPhone:
- In the WhatsApp app on iPhone, head over to Settings, and then go to Chats.
- Here, turn off the toggle next to Save to Camera Roll.
Hide WhatsApp Photos and Videos from Specific People and Groups
Merely follow the instructions below if you simply want to stop WhatsApp images and videos from a certain person or group from appearing in your phone’s gallery.
Hide WhatsApp Media from Specific People and Groups on Android
- In the WhatsApp app, open the chat or group chat you want to hide photos from. Then, tap on the name of the contact or the group.
- Here, tap on Media Visibility and choose No. Tap on OK and you re done.
Hide WhatsApp Media from Specific People and Groups on iPhone
- In WhatsApp, open the chat or group you want to hide photos from. Tap on the name of the contact or the group.
- Here, tap on Save Media to Camera Roll and choose No.
That’s it; moving forward, any pictures or videos you get from that specific person or group won’t appear in your gallery or camera roll.
Keep Your Gallery Clean
You may either choose to block all received media from your gallery or simply the contacts or groups who consistently spam your gallery with GIFs and memes now that you know how to stop WhatsApp photographs and videos from appearing there. With the introduction of this new functionality, WhatsApp has made sure that you won’t need to employ any complicated workarounds to stop WhatsApp photographs from appearing in your gallery app. Let me know in the comments section below if you have any questions regarding these techniques, and I’ll do my best to answer them.
