How to free up space on WhatsApp for iPhone

When you need to free up space in WhatsApp on your iPhone , you can carry out a series of actions from the application itself so that the space occupied by all the content generated by WhatsApp is as small as possible, and sometimes you have things that already exist. you do not need.

WhatsApp as an app takes up almost no space if we compare it with everything that is occupied by the content that is generated over time with the photos, videos, documents and other types of files that you receive, they take up the mobile storage and that can become a problem.

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Not at the beginning, but over months of using WhatsApp, especially if you receive a lot of multimedia content like the one we indicated before. There will come a time when you will have to free up space on your iPhone, and the app offers some tools to achieve this.

All the tools that you can use to free up WhatsApp space are concentrated in the settings, you can access them through settings/storage and data/data management.

But it is also advisable to use a series of tricks for WhatsApp so that in the future the content of the app does not take up so much space, or at least it does not do so so quickly.

Table of Contents

1. Delete videos forwarded many times
2. Delete content larger than 5 MB
3. Delete videos of specific conversations
4. Empty chats that do not interest you or are old
5. Delete WhatsApp conversations
6. Reduce the space occupied by WhatsApp in the future: tips

Delete videos forwarded many times

One of the first decisive decisions to get free space on WhatsApp is to delete videos that have been forwarded many times . If you are willing to delete all those files, follow these steps:

• Open WhatsApp and go to settings/storage and data/data management.

• Click on the “forwarded many times” section .

• Now press where it says “select” and select those videos that you are no longer interested in having on WhatsApp. If you look closely, you will see their size right in the thumbnail of each video, so you can know how much they weigh. When you have chosen the videos that you are going to delete, click on the trash icon to delete them .

Delete content larger than 5 MB

We continue with more options offered by WhatsApp itself to free up space through the “data management” section, and this time it is about being able to delete videos that weigh more than 5 MB . What you have to do is the following:

• Open WhatsApp and go to settings/storage and data/storage management.
• Enter “more than 5 MB” and there you select all those videos that you no longer want to have on your mobile. When you have made the selection, click on the trash icon to delete them and that’s it.

Delete videos of specific conversations

If you want to get more specific, another possibility that WhatsApp offers you is to delete videos by conversations , so you can know which people you have received them from and delete them if you so decide. In that case, the steps to follow are very simple:

• Enter WhatsApp and then to the previous route, that is, to settings / storage and data / storage management.
• Now go down a little and enter the first chat that appears in the “chats and channels” section , which is the largest if you look closely, there you can select the videos that do not interest you to delete them.

Empty chats that do not interest you or are old

You can also empty those WhatsApp conversions that no longer interest you , or that are even old and have not been active for a long time, and that can take up space, no matter how small. Although it may be minimal, by emptying them you can free up space.

Remember that emptying WhatsApp chats is not the same as deleting conversations , keeping that difference clear, what you have to do if you decide to carry out this practice is the following:

• Enter that conversation whose content you are going to delete completely and click on their profile photo at the top. Now go down the profile page and click on the “empty chat” option to delete all the content inside , this way the messages, photos, videos and everything it contains will be deleted, then select that you also want to delete all the multimedia content.

Delete WhatsApp conversations

Another thing you can do is delete WhatsApp conversations , in this case, those that do not make sense to have, for example, due to age. Here not only will the conversation be deleted from the “chats” tab, but the content inside will also be deleted.

To delete a WhatsApp conversation, follow these steps:

• Open WhatsApp on your iPhone and go to the “chats” tab , then choose the conversation you want to delete and slide it with your finger to the left, click on the “more” option .

• Finally, choose the “delete chat” option and accept the message.

Reduce the space occupied by WhatsApp in the future: tips

Apart from all the previous possibilities that allow you to free up space on WhatsApp immediately, we recommend that you take into account a series of tips to prevent WhatsApp from taking up so much space in the future .

Activate temporary messages

An option so that WhatsApp does not take up so much space from now on is to activate temporary messages , in fact, it is a measure that WhatsApp offers to prevent the app from taking up more and more space on the iPhone over time.

It is a measure that will begin to be applied once you activate it , once enabled, what will happen is that after a specified time, the messages from the conversations in which you have activated this parameter will be deleted forever, so the chat will occupy little space.

Disable automatic file download

Another decision that you can make is to deactivate the automatic download of files that are sent to you via WhatsApp , that is, that they are not downloaded and saved in the gallery of your iPhone, unless you decide so, this way you will save space and will not be It will download what you don’t want.

This affects photos, videos, audios and documents and the point is to prevent them from downloading automatically even when your iPhone is connected to a WiFi network or uses a data connection, so you can only download them manually. Follow these steps:

• Open WhatsApp, go to “settings” and go to “storage and data” . Now, below you will see a section called “automatic file download”, in all of them choose the “never” option .

There are several options to free up the space that WhatsApp occupies on your iPhone , which is based on deleting content generated by the app, or also deleting conversations or emptying their content, but also recommendations to delay a rapid filling of application space on your mobile in the future.