WhatsApp’s image gallery is populating with each passing day. And we are not talking about the pictures you receive from your family or your loved ones, but about memes, screenshots and anything else that is popular, for the moment , in the groups you are a member of .
The temptation to delete them is great, but the effort to manually clean thousands of images , piece by piece, from the phone memory, is colossal. And WhatsApp does not store the images that users send to their server . The risk of deleting a photo that counts, among many others, increases considerably.
However, there is a way to automatically save the images received on Google Photos in WhatsApp . They will be retained even if they are deleted from the phone.
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How to enable automatic save of WhatsApp photos in Google Photos
To automate the process of saving photos, you need to enable them to download automatically from WhatsApp . Here’s how you do it:
- Enter the WhatsApp app for Android .
- Enter the Menu – Settings – Data and storage usage .
- Click When connected to Wi-Fi .
- Select what you want (especially Photos ) and press OK .
At this point, any image you receive on WhatsApp will be automatically downloaded to the Android phone memory . To upload photos automatically to Google Photos, follow these steps:
- Enter the Photos app .
- Go to the menu (≡).
- Click Device Folders .
- Click WhatsApp Images .
- Check Back up & sync .
At this time, Google Photos will automatically save any image you receive on WhatsApp , if downloaded to your phone memory. You will be able to regain space on your phone without losing the images that are really important .
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