WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most popular instant messaging application in the world. And for this reason, many of us receive an enormous amount of photos and videos every day. Files that later appear in our gallery.
If it bothers you to have the gallery full of memes and the like, we are going to teach you how to make the photos and videos that are sent to you not be seen in your gallery automatically.
Hide photos and videos of WhatsApp from the gallery
Hide Whatsapp images, in the beta version
The option to hide the photos sent to us by WhatsApp, which appear in the gallery of our Android phone, has been available in iOS for some time. But if you use an Android mobile, it is important that you keep in mind that you can do it if you have the beta version.
Anyway, it's just a matter of time, as this feature will be available to everyone in app updates we receive. But if you want to avoid the photos in your gallery from now on, you will need to do Whatsapp beta tester of the app to be able to test it.
How to hide WhatsApp photos from the gallery
The first thing you will have to do so that the images do not appear in your gallery is:
- Go to the WhatsApp Settings menu.
- Once inside, you will have to go to the Chats section.
- In it you will find, within Data and storage. A box called Show media in gallery, which is checked by default.
- As soon as we uncheck it, we will no longer see the photos and videos that we have received through WhatsApp in our gallery. The files will continue to be stored on our mobile phone, but they will no longer appear directly in the gallery.
How to hide images from a specific user or group
If we only want them to stop appearing in the gallery, the media sent to us by a specific user or group. In this case, we will only have to click on the name of the group or contact.
On the screen that appears, we will click on «media visibility» and once there select the option No.
A cleaner photo and video gallery
The reason for hiding WhatsApp photos in our gallery is simply to ensure that this section of our Android mobile does not become a constant cemetery of memes.
Only photos taken by you or those that you have placed there manually will appear in your gallery. So having everything cleaner and more organized will be a much easier task from now on. And one more addition, the photo galleries on our mobile will be loaded sooner, by avoiding loading the WhatsApp ones.
If what you want is to delete all this garbage, you have Files Go File Cleaner, so that it does it perfectly.
Have you carried out this procedure to hide images and videos from WhatsApp? We invite you to go through the comments section at the bottom of the page.