WhatsApp: Tips so that the backup does not take up too much space on the cell phone

The WhatsApp It was not at all famous for its economy in the space it occupies in smart phone. Don’t even talk about the chats themselves, the text itself, which occupies a lot of volume, much more if the user is very prolific when it comes to chatting.

By not having only storage and transmission servers, Everything received goes directly to the cell phone and the outer space who – which apps It occupies and grows without stopping. This, if you have a phone with enough storage space, should not be a very annoying problem; But when we talk about Cloudsubordinate Backups In said cloud, things get complicated.

in google driveFor example, you have 15 GB for the free version. in iCloud, 5 GB. Enough space for many things but when it comes to WhatsApp backup, it might not be that big. Infobae below explains how this can be done so that the backup does not take up too much space on the cell phone.

Delete chats that are not working

As mentioned earlier, WhatsApp chats take up space. There is no talk of an app storing things on its servers, so everything is on the phone. Also text.

And one way to free up some space so that the backup isn’t too heavy is to delete these chats. Not all of them, of course, just the people who are no longer important. One can also leave old groups and thus leave them deleted when leaving. All this will save space.

Ask WhatsApp not to save copies of videos to the cloud

If the person reading this article is someone who receives a lot of videos, or a few and is very heavy (if there are a lot of them and is very heavy, the problem is even greater), then the best thing to do is Remove them from your WhatsApp backup circle.

If you want to keep it, you can try to upload it to Youtube also Google Photos Privately, for example, or for another network such as cable It allows you to use the cloud and thus the free WhatsApp app.

It is easy to prevent WhatsApp from downloading videos:

1. Settings.

2. Chat.

3. Backup.

4. Disable the “Include videos” option.

Download Control

At this point, the backup already weighs quite a bit. What matters now is that it stays that way for a long time so you don’t have to clean every two or three, and the best thing to achieve this is to prevent everything you receive from downloading without prior notice. You want to know what you’re storing, and WhatsApp lets you decide.

You just have to imagine that you’re in a group of family, friends, work, whatever, but it’s pretty prolific. All-day memes, audio recordings, and more. If this is not prevented, WhatsApp will automatically download it so that it can be seen, heard or read from the phone without doing more.

But since all this takes up space we probably don’t want to waste it, We will tell WhatsApp to stop downloading stuff. To disable automatic download, follow these steps:

1. Settings.

2. Storage and data.

3. Automatic download.

Does that mean you won’t be able to see anything that comes to you? not at all. But it will have the ability to decide in each case what to download and what not to download.

From now on, you can see the download button on the photos, videos, documents, etc. to make them fall from the WhatsApp cloud to the phone. An excellent way to maintain order and cleanliness, and make the application load more manageable for subsequent backups.

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