Overview
- WhatsApp now lets users locate and remove big photos and videos inside a specific chat while leaving the message history untouched, according to Meta’s announcement.
- You can open a chat, tap the chat name, choose Storage management, and then delete items one by one or use Select all to clear everything in that thread’s media.
- Sorting options help target the worst offenders by size, date newest, or date oldest, which makes long videos and bulky files easy to spot and remove.
- A broader storage view highlights the largest files, shows items that many people have forwarded, and ranks chats by how much space they use for quick cleanups.
- If your phone auto-saves WhatsApp media to the photo library, copies may remain outside the app, and Meta also flagged new perks such as simpler iOS-to-Android chat transfers and support for two accounts on one iPhone.