Stopping Whatsapp Photos from going into your Personal Collection

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Is it possible to stop certain images that are posted on Whatsapp from going into your personal photos? We've a family Whatsapp group, and there's one idiot who keeps posting images of her dog to it and they all get into my photos.

It can be handy other times, so what I want to know is, is it possible to select that individual and have anything they post to be blocked from going into my personal photos?

beauf

Turn off media visibility.

But it stops all what's apps photos from every chat going into your gallery. I had to turn it off on the oh phone.

When someone starts spamming a chat with stupid photos I leave it.

_Brian

Problem is when the app updates it resets this and they start going back in.

ThunbergsAreGo

beauf wrote: »

Turn off media visibility.

But it stops all what's apps photos from every chat.

Thank you for this!

Always infuriated me

Tar.Aldarion

can turn off automatic downloads, so you can see a blurry image and choose the ones you want to download by clocking them.

beauf

For such a popular application its is very basic.

You should be able to filter out certain people. So for example on a club chat filter out everyone other than the admins. Every time the club's post something everyone replies to it, saying thanks. So much noise.

antix80

To prevent any media from a particular chat going into your gallery. Three-dot menu - group info - media visibility - Show newly downloaded media from this chat in your phone's gallery: No

If you are a group admin you can remove the idiot who keeps posting the dog pics. Or set up a new group without the offending member.

To quickly delete the dog photos from your gallery and your copy of the whatsapp group chat: in group chat, from the three-dot menu click "group media", long-press the first photo of a dog, and then tap all other photos of the furry-faced animal. Press the delete icon. The "delete media in this chat" checkbox should be ticked by default, then click "Delete for me".

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If you're on android go to your File Manager app and find the WhatsApp folder. Go into your media folder. Then into each individual folder ie. Images, Videos etc. Create a new file in each one and call it .nomedia
The full stop is important. This should stop images, videos etc from bring saved in your phones gallery.

beauf

antix80 wrote: »

To prevent any media from a particular chat going into your gallery. Three-dot menu - group info - media visibility - Show newly downloaded media from this chat in your phone's gallery: No

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That's a better way than my suggestion. I didn't realise you could do it per chat.

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beauf wrote: »

Turn off media visibility.

But it stops all what's apps photos from every chat going into your gallery. I had to turn it off on the oh phone.

When someone starts spamming a chat with stupid photos I leave it.

That's fine as long as I can go in and hand pick which ones I want to download. Is that possible?

nickyjames

You can stop auto downloading option.