How to Free Your Devices from Unnecessary and Hidden WhatsApp Data

WhatsApp is a helpful method for communicating with loved ones, because of inherent calling and messaging highlights, as well as the capacity to send voice messages, videos, and photographs across gadgets. The application deals with the best Android gadgets and iPhones and can be introduced on a work area or PC. With added effortlessness, it's enticing to send and get incalculable pictures and recordings, which occupy space on your telephone. While you can erase media discussion by discussion, this isn't direct, as the need might arise to go through each conversation on your telephone.

 

There's one more method for getting to your media gallery and secret folders on your device to dispose of undesirable media. What's more, in the event that you use WhatsApp on your PC, there's a method for tidying up the information it stores locally. This is the way to tidy everything up.

 

Eliminating received media from your mobile phone's display

Except if you've changed your WhatsApp settings, the media you get from others is consequently saved in your phone's gallery under the WhatsApp folder. Here is how to find it and empty the folder.

 

1. Open your phone's gallery or Photographs application.
2. Search for the WhatsApp Pictures and WhatsApp Video folders or albums. In the event that you don't see them, they're likely hidden, and we tell you the best way to get to them further down this post.
3. Select the photos you need to delete and erase them. Otherwise, jump to the next segment.
4. You might need to erase the WhatsApp Animated Gifs folder, which contains files you probably shouldn't keep, particularly not in your gallery.
5. By and large, you'll need to empty the trash to eliminate the media you erased.

 

Finding hidden media

In most cases, not every media you receive on WhatsApp is saved in your phone’s gallery. This means the photographs and video files you receive are always hidden and not easily accessible. For example, WhatsApp doesn't make a folder for archived conversations in your gadget but instead saves them in a secret folder.

 

Here is how to get to your WhatsApp hidden photographs and video files

 

1. Go to your phone’s files browser.
2. Go to your phone's internal storage and access the folders under Android > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp > Media.
3. You'll see a list of WhatsApp media you've sent and received, including sound, records, stickers, voice notes, GIFs, recordings, and pictures.
4. Under every folder, you'll find the private and sent subfolders. The first subfolder stores media from archived conversations. The second subfolder groups what you've shared with others. These subfolders are hidden from your telephone's gallery.

 

1. Select and erase the media and documents you need to eliminate, then empty the garbage.
2. If there's nothing that you have any desire to keep, erase the folder under Media or their subfolders. WhatsApp naturally makes them again when required.

 

Clearing your cache

In spite of the fact that clearing your WhatsApp cache won't eliminate the media, it helps the application run as expected and erases temporary documents from your phone's memory.

 

1. Open your phone's Settings.
2. Tap Applications.
3. Look down and tap WhatsApp.
4. Tap Storage. 
   
   
   
   
   
5. Tap Clear cache in the lower-right corner.

 

Free up space on your PC

Since WhatsApp can be installed on your PC, it saves data locally, which occupies space on your gadget. These files aren't easily accessible on your computer and are naturally cleared after some time except if you physically download them. All things considered, when you want to create space on your PC, erasing WhatsApp media could help.

 

The simplest method for eliminating these files is by logging out of WhatsApp if you are using the desktop app. It just takes a couple of clicks:

 

1. Open the WhatsApp application on your comp.
2. Click on the arrow pointing downwards to the right side of your profile picture.
3. Click Log Out.

 

This unlinks your PC from your WhatsApp account and eliminates the media stored on it. Next time you sign in, the application reestablishes your visits and doesn't recover the media it had reserved before the cycle.

 

On the other hand, you can uninstall the application if you no longer need it, which additionally eliminates the information stored locally on your PC.