When you receive an image from WhatsApp, you can hide it and prevent it from being downloaded to your gallery.The goal is to minimize the places where content is stored and have greater control. Let's see what to do to prevent this from happening and allow the photo to be saved only in the multimedia folders of the Meta messaging app.
How to prevent WhatsApp images from being displayed in the mobile gallery
Every time a WhatsApp contact sends you a message send a photo or video, this is stored not only in the app's media file, also in the gallery app. Normally this folder is visible and anyone can access it and see what has been sent to you via Meta instant messaging.
To prevent this from happening there is a feature that blocks WhatsApp images from being saved there and practically hides them. Although they are stored in your custom folder, accessing it is not easy, which increases its security a little. Let's see how it is done and what steps you must follow to activate it:
- Log in to your WhatsApp account.
- Select a chat for which you do not want WhatsApp images to be saved in the gallery.
- Tap the name of the selected contact located at the top of the chat.
- Once inside the chat details you will see an option that says: Media file visibility.
- Tap on it and you will see a screen with several options, select the one that says “no”.
- From this activation, any multimedia content you receive will not be stored in the gallery application on your device and will remain hidden.
With this information you ensure that photos and videos will no longer be seen from the device's gallery. Now they will only be stored in the WhatsApp multimedia folder, completely hidden and difficult to access. On the other hand, you should know that This option must be done for each chat since there is no way to deactivate it globally for all contacts..
If you can't see the function that disables the download of multimedia content in the device's gallery, it's because you haven't updated WhatsApp. It's important to always have the latest version and if you don't have it, you can do it from this shortcut. Don't forget to share this information so more people know how to do it.
