If you have been working with WhatsApp on your own iPhone for some time, you already know that it will save photos and videos to iPhone camera roll automatically. This specific feature can come out to be unpleasant because it jumbles the iPhone Camera Roll and after some times you have got some very terrible images on WhatsApp that wind up in your iPhone camera roll – completely open for anybody who is surfing around the album to check out. Ho here we will tell you how to disable auto-save images and videos on iPhone using WhatsApp.
Now that is a little bit of hassle. On the other hand, it is very simple and easy to disable auto-save images and videos to your own iPhone camera roll using WhatsApp.
If you want to try and do this:
- Go-to Settings app
- Then tap on the Privacy option
- Tap on the Photos
- Now turn-off the toggle switch for the WhatsApp
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WhatsApp: How To Disable Auto-Save Images And Videos On iPhone
Previously, every time somebody sends you the image or any video, it remains within the WhatsApp. Still you can have all these in WhatsApp and watch them but it will not appear in the iPhone camera roll album now. Generally, it does not transferred there keeping you from lot of problems and sometimes embarrassment as well.
When you setup the WhatsApp, it asks you for the permission to gain access to your Images. If you already set this off there, you should not have to get worried about the WhatsApp will copy the photos and videos to your camera roll.
Still you can view the images or videos sent to you by anybody by simply tapping on Info button -> View all media in whatsapp (on upper right of the chat screen).
WhatsApp generally downloads the images but allows you to choose the video download. As soon as they are downloaded, they stay within WhatsApp. If WhatsApp has the permission to access the Camera Roll, it will save the photos to camera roll. Don’t give that access permission to avoid such confusion.
By Switching off the Privacy of the Photos for WhatsApp particularly can help to keep your iPhone camera roll clean and neat but will also help you in cutting down the size of your iPhone camera roll.
