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How to delete all old WhatsApp photos and videos from your iPhone

Ankur Thakur ∙ May 19, 2022

WhatsApp saves the same pictures and videos in two places - inside the WhatsApp app and the iPhone Photos app. You can easily stop WhatsApp from saving images to your iPhone Photos app. But one copy still unknowingly remains inside the chat app.

If you have lots of one-to-one and group conversations on WhatsApp, these media files might be occupying several GBs of space.

In this handy tutorial, we show you how to delete old WhatsApp photos and videos from your iPhone to free space and keep things fast.

WhatsApp is rewriting its Electron-powered Mac app from scratch in Catalyst

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 12, 2022

The Meta-owned WhatsApp messaging software will provide a new Mac app in the future, rewritten in Catalyst to be faster and user-friendlier on macOS.

WhatsApp is working on letting you send and receive messages with your Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses

Christian Zibreg ∙ May 5, 2022

WhatsApp's integration with Ray-Ban Stories will let you send and receive messages, and make calls, using your voice on the smart glasses.

WhatsApp is testing quick emoji reactions for status updates

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 28, 2022

A new feature being tested would make it a cinch to express your feelings about a friend's status message on WhatsApp with one of the several emoji reactions.

A new WhatsApp feature lets you stop vanishing messages from disappearing

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 26, 2022

The Meta-owned WhatsApp is testing a new feature for its iPhone app to mark a disappearing message to keep it past its expiration time.

All apps should steal this Telegram feature

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 19, 2022

Telegram for iPhone has gained the ability to set a custom sound for notifications so that your own audio plays when you receive a message.

Check out emoji reactions, larger calls and other new features for WhatsApp groups

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 14, 2022

You can now react with emoji in WhatsApp group chats, participate in larger audio calls, delete problematic messages for everyone and so forth.

WhatsApp no longer saves disappearing media to the iPhone’s Photos app

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 8, 2022

Learn why images, videos and animated GIFs from WhatsApp chats with disappearing messages enabled are no longer automatically saved to your iPhone's Photos library, and how to manage this setting going forward.

WhatsApp limits message forwards to other groups to curb misinformation

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 4, 2022

WhatsApp is limiting the number of times users can forward a message in a group chat, a change designed to slow down the spread of misinformation on the platform.

WhatsApp tests sharing media files up to 2GB in size, launches iOS 15 update

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 28, 2022

WhatsApp has now begun testing the ability to send media files up to 2GB in size. The new limited test arrives shortly after the Meta-owned service released an update that finally enabled full compatibility with Apple's new iOS 15 software.

How to pin Twitter direct messages to the top of your inbox, no subscription required

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 18, 2022

Follow these steps to pin Twitter conversations to the top of the chat list in your Twitter DM inbox for quick and convenient access to up to six specific people.

You can now play audio messages on WhatsApp whilst chatting in another thread

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 17, 2022

The Meta-owned messaging service now lets you listen to WhatsApp voice messages and audio files outside of chats, improving your multitasking when using the app.