How to Remove WhatsApp Photos/Media from Google Photos
How to Remove WhatsApp Photos/Media from Google Photos..
Many people have many are WhatsApp
groups in which they are added. Sometimes these groups become really
annoying! lots and lots of images and videos which are useless and get
synced with our Google photos. Also, these useless pictures fill up the
phones space and the gallery becomes a miserable place to store photos.
Here we have a solution for removing the
WhatsApp images from the gallery and also google photos. You can now
easily delete the WhatsApp photos with this simple guide and they will
never get automatically synced. This guide will also help you to quickly
take backup of your important photos. It will also virtually free up
some space on your device.
Search All WhatsApp Files and Delete Them
WhatsApp stores the media files with its own prefix added to it. If
you see the name of the image downloaded through WhatsApp it will be
something like WA#@***.jpg. Now we will search for these files which
contain ‘WA’ in their names and delete them.
Step 1: Open Google Photos app and type WA in the search bar. You will see all the photos which have the prefix WA(WhatsApp photos).Step 2: Now select all the photos by, Long pressing on a photo and drag down(without lifting your fingers) until all the photos are selected.
Step 3: Tap on the Delete button/icon and done.
Turn off Auto-Backup in Google photos
We have deleted all the WhatsApp images now we need to make sure that
it doesn’t add the WhatsApp images again to the photos. So there’s a
way to do it by switching off the WhatsApp sync.
Turn off Auto-Backup in Google photos
We have deleted all the WhatsApp images now we need to make sure that
it doesn’t add the WhatsApp images again to the photos. So there’s a
way to do it by switching off the WhatsApp sync.
- Just simply, open the Google photos app. Swipe right tap on Device Folders.
- Scroll down and look for the folder Whatsapp Images and tap on it.
- Turn off the Backup and sync toggle button. You can also do this for the WhatsApp Videos and GIFs just select the folders and turn off the sync button.
Bonus Trick – Free Up Device Storage
The photos backed up photos should be deleted for the device in order to free some device storage. It is also recommended for the users who want more storage space on their devices.Go to Settings > Tap on Free up device storage option. Or tap on the Completed back up icon located on the home page
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