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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.

Pixel: Access the camera and advanced photography features from the Photos app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 16, 2022

It’s almost like a bad joke how Apple designed the Camera app with a shortcut to your Photo Library, but not vice-versa. In fact, some might call it almost maddening.

How to create a slideshow in the Photos app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Ankur Thakur ∙ May 15, 2022

The Photos app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac lets you play beautiful slideshows of your pictures and videos. You can start a slideshow of your vacation photos or a wedding album and sit back and enjoy the images cycle through automatically.

To take things up a notch, you can also customize the slideshow with themes, music, or AirPlay it to a bigger display.

Follow along and see how to create a slideshow on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

How to automatically change your iPhone wallpaper every day

Ankur Thakur ∙ May 6, 2022

Looking at the same wallpaper every day can be boring for some. If you feel the same, you can spice things up by having your iPhone automatically change the Home Screen and Lock Screen wallpaper daily.

Plus, you can customize it to auto-change the wallpaper when you plug or unplug the charger or put the device in Airplane Mode and many other such conditions. Here's how.

7 simple ways to safely back up your iPhone photos and videos

Ankur Thakur ∙ May 2, 2022

I have a friend who nearly lost all of his photos of his daughter. He had his iPhone for just about two years and he took tons of pictures of her. She wasn't even two years old yet, so basically, her whole life was on his iPhone. One day, his phone crashed, and he couldn't figure out what happened to it. His pictures were lost.

He was eventually able to recover his photos, but not without hours of work and days of anxiety. When I asked him why he didn't just back his photos up, he had no good response. Always back up your precious photos. Seriously. Always back up your photos!

Here are a few different ways to back up your photos and videos so you'll never have to face the dreaded lost memories again.

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.

How to add a watermark to an image on iPhone and iPad

Ankur Thakur ∙ Updated April 14, 2022

A watermark or signature helps identify the maker of an image or photograph. You might have seen the artist's signature on drawings and paintings. Before posting, publishing, sending, or using original pictures, you might want to add a watermark to establish your right or authority.

The watermark on an image can be text-based (your name), signature, company logo, copyright symbol ©, or something else. This tutorial shows you how to add a watermark to photos from your iPhone or iPad.

Anne enables biometric protection for the Photos app’s Hidden album

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 28, 2022

When you feel a little bit secretive about certain photos or videos, you can always hide them away in the native Photos app’s dedicated Hidden album. Unfortunately, they won’t be safe from prying eyes when the user knows where to look.

Unlock powerful new capabilities in the Photos app with the PhotoManager jailbreak tweak

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 10, 2022

There are a lot of things you should be able to do with your iPhone’s native Photos app that, for whatever reason, Apple decided granting access to wouldn’t be in your best interest, and consequently excluded it.

The Halide camera app now lets you perform batch actions on photos

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 24, 2022

The iPhone camera app Halide now lets you perform batch actions on photos. You'll also love a new grid view and other perks in Halide 2.7 for iPhone.

Import media to your iPhone’s native Photos app in more ways with PImport

Anthony Bouchard ∙ February 22, 2022

Apple makes it relatively easy to save images viewed on your display to your Photo Library. Almost everywhere you look, you can either tap on a share button to save a photo, tap and hold on a photo to reveal saving options, or you may opt to simply snap a screenshot.

Aperture ports iOS 15’s detailed photo information to jailbroken iOS 13 & 14 devices

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated March 11, 2022

One of the things I really like about iOS & iPadOS 15 is the ability to see detailed information about images that are stored in my iPhone or iPad’s Photo Library. Types of information include the type of device it was captured on, camera specs, location, and more.