How to delete only videos, images or audios from a conversation on WhatsApp

It's just that the Whatsapp, for being one of the most present applications in our daily lives, be one of the main responsible for to fill o storage smartphone internal. 

It is possible to delete an entire conversation at once to eliminate all unnecessary memes and videos, but if you do this you will also lose the exchanged messages.

A new feature was recently released for Android ou iOS which allows you to select only photos, videos or documents from a conversation to delete without losing messages.

Want to know how it works? In this tutorial the showmetech helps you clear your smartphone's memory in a few minutes.

Deleting files on iOS

To start deleting just the files of a conversation on your iPhone, you will first need to open your Whatsapp, and then select the option "Settings", located at the bottom of the screen. Then select the option “Data Use and Storage”. 

Your next action will be to click “Use of Storage”, and right after doing that a list of groups and people you chat with will appear.

Note that the list is organized according to the size of the files that the conversations have, to facilitate the deletion of larger files.

To delete, just click on the conversation, and then tick the one you want to delete. After marking, just press the button "Clean".. To repeat this process, simply return to the conversation list.

When this role was released, only product users Apple could delete the files of a conversation without losing the messages.

But now, who uses Android You can also take advantage of this feature. See how:

Deleting only the files of a conversation in WhatsApp for Android

It is also possible to delete only the files of a conversation in the whatsapp for android, and it's a very easy process to do. You need to first open your messaging app, and click on the three dots that are located in the upper right corner to access the “Settings" do WhatsApp.

Then click on the option “Data and Storage” and a new screen will open. On this new screen, select “Storage Usage”, and automatically a list of your conversations will be displayed.

Just like in iOS, the list is organized by file size for easy deletion.

Your next action will be to select one of the conversations from the list and choose which files will be deleted, for that, click on “Manage Messages”. You can also delete messages if you want. After choosing, click “Clear messages”, and confirm the deletion.

You can repeat this action by returning to the conversation list. In this way, you can eliminate several files without having to select one by one from your gallery.

Feature facilitates memory cleanup

Be in the Android ou iOS, this feature makes cleaning your smartphone's internal storage much easier, as it allows multiple received files to be deleted at once. All this without losing messages.

Another action that also helps a lot to save memory is to leave automatic file download disabled.

Here's how to do it: Settings>Data and Storage>Auto Download. In this section, you can not only disable media downloading, but also choose when it should be done.

You can choose whether media can be downloaded when you are using a data network or not, as well as prioritizing a file type that should be downloaded automatically.

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