Delete Whatsapp images from groups and chats to free up memory

WhatsApp is one of those applications that is never lacking in every smartphone, probably more widespread than Facebook itself if you look at the cell phones of Italians.
Whatsapp is used instead of SMS to exchange messages and also instead of Emails to exchange photos and videos.
The problem with Whatsapp is that after some time you use it, it fills your phone’s memory with stuff you probably don’t want to keep.
In fact, those who receive many photos or images on Whatsapp, especially published in the various groups in which you participate, those where you often exchange funny images, memes or curious photos, could soon see the memory of the internal space or the SD card run out and not have more space to install other applications or to take new photos.
These spam messages with useless photos that often come from our friends or relatives can be fun to receive from time to time, but you should remember to delete them if you don’t want them to clog your entire phone.
To check the photos received and sent in Whatsapp and for delete all that junk from your phone from funny friends, groups of friends or work colleagues, there are two ways, one manual and one automatic which is really comfortable.

One of the ways to get rid of junk images and unwanted is to delete them from chats.
Open in Whatsapp every conversation we know is full of photos, images and videos, tap the options button and open the Media oi Group average.
From here you can choose which ones to select and delete and which ones to keep.

From 2017 a new option is available, on iPhone and Android, which allows you to clean up archive usage and free up space on Whatsapp

To do a little faster and check all Whatsapp media at once, you have to open the Whatsapp file folder and delete, all or one by one the images and videos (which are the ones that take up the most space) garbage.
To do this, you can open the gallery app and look for the Whatsapp folder.
On the Google Photos app, which is the most immediate to use, press the button at the top left with three lines to get to the main menu, and then tap on Device folders.
At the bottom, under the folder of the Camera, you can open folders Whatsapp Images e WhatsApp Videos to browse and check all the files received and sent and then select and delete those that take up space unnecessarily.
In Google Photos, selecting files is really easy because just touch and hold your finger on the screen moving it over the photos to be selected.

To do the same thing you could also use a file management app like ES File Explorer, tap at the top of the Homepage and go to the Device / sdcard / Whatsapp / Media path and browse the directories Whatsapp Images e Whatsapp Video, select those to be deleted and delete them with the trash can symbol.

If you do not want to delete all the photos received and sent with Whatsapp and to make a more precise selection, but without wasting too much time, there are two very nice, comfortable and ingenious applications for Android smartphones that come to your aid.

1) I had already talked about one of these apps in the past: Gallery Doctor to delete bad photos from memory on Android
Using Gallery Doctor you can open the Whatsapp image folder and choose, with the Tinder system (ie saying yes or no, like or dislike), which ones to keep and which ones to delete.

2) With the smart app Cleaner for WhatsApp it is possible to scan all the images received in the various chats to find those that are detected as junk to be deleted.
The images that are proposed for deletion are screenshots, memes, cartoons and practically all images with a writing on them.
After scanning, you are offered the option to delete all detected images in one go.
The Magic Cleaner app is free even if it requires to be shared with a friend in a Whatsapp message (or wait a day) to be able to use it in full.

3) Files Go di Google includes the photo cleaning function with automatic detection of those that, received in WHatsapp, are definitely to be deleted.

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