WhatsApp will help you have more space on your mobile

If there is an application that we install as soon as we launch our mobile, that is WhatsApp There are very popular alternatives, such as Telegram, which offers functionalities as attractive as sending self-destructing photos. But the truth is that practically all users use this service to communicate with our contacts.

During this year we have seen many changes in this application, owned by Facebook. Especially with the arrival of ephemeral content with the States, a feature modeled on Instagram Stories, which also belongs to Zuckerberg's company.

There is no doubt that WhatsApp is evolving. It is on its way to becoming a social network, to stop being just an instant messaging app. This may like more or less. What nobody likes is that it ends up taking up a lot of space in the storage of Android smartphones But it seems that WhatsApp wants to solve this problem.

With WhatsApp we accidentally fill the storage

Although it is a messaging service, we all receive countless photographs, gifs, audios, and videos In short, we end up savinglarge files, more than simple text messages. Just take a look at the device storage and check that we have a lot of videos, for example, that we did not want to download.

Either because some files are risque-themed and we don't want to have them on our mobile.Or because they simply take up too much space. The question is to eliminate them. It should be noted that this usually happens when the automatic download function is checked, which is recommended deactivate itto prevent files shared in groups from ending up in our terminal.

The WhatsApp solution to free up space

It's not yet official from the company, but the guys at WABetaInfo assure that soon a feature will arrive to save on storage This is something iOS users received earlier this year, but Android users are still waiting.

As the aforementioned source, which has a high success rate in its information, advances, WhatsApp is about to implement the storage usage functionin the version for Google's mobile operating system.

On Apple devices, the application has a menu accessed through the configuration options. It shows the information about the storage use that WhatsApp makes on the iPhone or iPad. It is precisely what arrives in the beta version for Android, as shown in the following image.

Goodbye to so many WhatsApp files on Android

Thanks to this function, the user can easily see detailed information about the storage space each chat takes up. In this way, it is easier to know the content that is being a nuisance on the device.

As you can see, there are all types of files that WhatsApp allows you to share: text messages, contacts, locations, images, GIFs, videos, audios and documents.Thus it is possible to manage the space depending on what we do not want to save on our mobile.

On iOS devices, follow the path “Settings > Data and storage usage > Storage usage”. The logical thing is that Android is the same or very similar. It should be noted that the conversations appear ordered according to the space they occupy, from largest to smallest.

This is a really cool feature when it comes to group chats, which are usually the most common source of junk files. Who has never discovered content that they didn't even know they had on their smartphone?