In the process of exchanging images through Whatsapp quite often, a desire, and sometimes the need to save one or another photo from the chat in memory of the mobile device used to access the service. If you do not know how to carry out such an operation, read the recommendations from the following article - it demonstrates the procedure for downloading pictures from the messenger to the Android-smartphone and iPhone memory in several ways.
How to save photos from whatsapp in the memory of the smartphone
Since Android and Ayos users watch the distinguished interface of the messenger, as well as at the expense of the various file systems of the specified platforms, consider solutions to the task from the header of the article follows separately for each of them. So we will do further.
The only obstacle to downloading files from the VATSAP can be the absence of access to the repository of the device. Therefore, before switching to the implementation of the preservation of photos from the manipulation messenger, it will be useful to verify that the specified access is provided. To do this, spend the appropriate OS of your device surgery:
- Android:
Open the "Settings" of the mobile Operations, go to the "Applications" section, click All Applications.
Lay "WhatsApp" in the list of installed on the software smartphone. Next, open the screen with detailed information about the application, touching its name, and then tap the name of the options for "application permissions" name.
In the list of software and hardware modules displayed on the screen, find the "Storage" item and move the switch to the right of it to "Enabled", if the reverse position of the belongings is initially stated. Exit the "settings" of the Android OS - on this configuration of the system to solve the problem under consideration, completed.
- iPhone.:
Go to "Settings" iOS. Space the list of system parameters on the screen that opens, find the name "WhatsApp" and click on it.
In the displayed list, tap the name "Photo" option. In the list of access control system proposed by the system, set the mark near the read and write item. Exit "Settings" iPhone, after which you can open Vatsap - now all possible obstacles for downloading images are eliminated.
Android
The owners managed by the "green robot" of the devices operating the WhatsApp application for Android can use one of the three-described methods from the messenger to save the methods, as well as combine their use depending on the specific situation.Method 1: Autoload
In general, to copy photos from VatsaP for Android in the device's memory, no action is not necessary - the default application is configured in such a way that all images from chats are automatically downloaded. All that is required of the User photo files in this way is not to prevent the process by installing a direct ban.
- Run WhatsApp on the smartphone and then open the "Settings" of the application, taping along three points in the upper right corner of the screen and then selecting the appropriate item in the menu displayed.
- Click "Data and Storage", which will open in front of you the "Auto-loading of the Media" section of the application parameters category.
- Check that the automatic preservation of the content of the function in Vatsap is involved or activate them:
- "Mobile Network" - if you want pictures from the messenger to be saved without your intervention, including at the moments of consumption by the traffic device from 2G / 3G / 4G networks, click on this item. Next, install a checkbox located next to the name "Photo" Chekbox and confirm the desire to change the parameter, touching "OK".
- "Wi-Fi" - activated by default including in relation to photos from chats Option WhatsApp, ensures the download of content to those periods when the messenger receives the Internet from the network technology that is valid. Click on this item, set the mark near the "Photo" and save the value of the parameter, tapping "OK".
- "In Roaming" - if you do not need to limit the consumption of the traffic operator from mobile networks outside the zone outside the zone, click on the name of the option, check the PHOTO Item in the list of data type list and tap "OK".
- Choosing the values of the autoload parameters, exit the "settings" of the messenger and use it as usual. From now on, photos from whatsapp chats even until its opening will be automatically placed in the Android-device store in accordance with your chosen configuration.
- To view saved images more conveniently use the "Gallery" - here they are automatically created by the album "Whatsapp images".
- To systematize photos and other manipulations loaded from VATSAP and other manipulations with them it is possible to use any file manager for Android. Open the conductor in the smartphone and go to the clock on the way:
Internal Memory / WhatsApp / Media / Whatsapp Images
Here you will find the files of all automatically downloaded from image chats, and therefore you can open any of them, copy particularly valuable in the default directory in the device's memory, remove unnecessary.
Method 2: Manual loading
The above-described principle of copying data from VATSAP with active "consumption" of content in chat rooms can lead to a rapid fill in the memory of the android device, so many users deactivate the startup option.Method 3: Share Function
If you have a need to put individual photos from the messenger to a specific directory from the device created in the repository, for this purpose it is best to use the name "Share" the Android feature. To effectively implement the preservation of WATSAP images on the proposed further, the principle will require the supporting the possibility of downloading information from the network file manager - in the example used by ES File Explorer, but also for the embodiment, its analogs operate in the medium under consideration are used.
- Start WhatsApp and open the photo of the chat alleged to the device.
- Next you need to go through one of three ways:
- Tap the image in the correspondence to deploy it to the entire screen. Next, tap three points at the top on the right and then select Share in the menu that opens.
- Long pressing in the field of message-picture Highlight it. Tap the "Share" icon in the tool menu at the top screen.
- If the correspondence from which you need to download a graphic file is extensive and flip it in the search for the desired picture will have long, the best solution will open the chat menu (three points to the right of the title) and select the item "Media, Links and Documents" in the list of options.
Tap the miniature of the photo copied from Vatsap in the opening gallery, and then on the image view screen in full, call the menu and click on it "Share".
- Tap the image in the correspondence to deploy it to the entire screen. Next, tap three points at the top on the right and then select Share in the menu that opens.
- As a result of the execution of any of the manipulations listed in the point above, the "Send" menu will appear at the bottom of the screen. Scrolling the list of programs and services to the left, find the signed "Save to" the "Explorer" icon.
- Open the directory where you wish to place a copy of the photo from the messenger, touching his name in the displayed list, or create a new folder and go to it.
- Next, click "Choice", as a result of which literally after a moment the task of extracting photos from VatsAP will be solved.
iOS.
Saving a photo from the WhatsApp program for iOS to the iPhone repository regardless of what approach from the following in the article you will use, will not cause any difficulties and will require you to commit the minimum number of actions.Method 1: Autoload
Watsap on iPhone can be configured in such a way that the photo from any chat you opens will be copied in its memory automatically. With this approach to solving our task, to ensure the download of images during communication through the messenger and without additional actions on your part, it suffices to check the inclusion factor of some options and, if necessary, configure them.
- Start WhatsApp and go to the "Settings" of the program, touching the corresponding icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
- Open the parameter section called "Data and Storage". The category of settings you are interested in are entitled "Startup Media" - tap here "Photos".
- Choose the most acceptable option "behavior" of the automatic image loading features from chat images:
- "Wi-Fi" - the photo will be copied from the chats in the device's memory only when the iPhone is connected to the appropriate wireless network technology.
- Wi-Fi and Cellular Communication - Loading images is carried out regardless of the connection to the Internet involved on the device type device, that is, it is performed through a 3G / 4G data network.
- When specifying the program under what conditions the photographs can be automatically downloaded to the mobile device repository, exit "Settings" and then use WhatsApps as usual.
- Now you can be sure - when viewing images in the chat, they will automatically be copied to the iPhone memory and become available from the IOS program "Photo".
Method 2: Manual loading
The "Startup" function described above is successfully coping with its destination, but at the same time loads absolutely all photos from Vatsap chat and groups opened by the user. This, firstly, in most cases is not a necessity and "litters" the gallery, and secondly, it leads to unjustified consumption of space in the Device repository. Therefore, many deactivate autoload, and to download individual images, act as the following method.
- Open WhatsApp and go to a dialogue or a group where the photo you need is given.
- If the photo startup in the messenger is disabled, to consider the image received in the chat, it will not immediately work - only its "blurred" preview is displayed and the round button "Download" is displayed. Touch the Picture - this will lead it to the "normal" species and at the same time initiates data copying to the iPhone repository.
- To make sure that the saving operation is performed, open the IOS program "Photo" - here you will find the picture described above.
Method 3: Share Function
To download in memory of the iPhone of individual photos from Watsup to view them or carry out other manipulations using third-party software in the future, it is convenient to use the "Share" function integrated into ayos. In the example, further demonstrate the process of saving photos from WhatsApp to the iPhone file manager - Documents from Readdle And then put the picture in the folder created using this "conductor".
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- In the messenger, open the individual or group chat, which contains a copied photo.
- Next, double-opera:
- Click on the message-picture and do not stop the impact before the menu appears. Select the "Send" option, and on the next screen, tap the "Share" icon located in the lower right corner.
- Tapping on the image in correspondence, go to its full screen view. Press the "Share" icon located in the bottom left and then select the item item in the menu that opens.
- In the panel with accessible programs and services, locate "Copy in Documents" and tap this icon. Through a short time, the unloading from the messenger will be completed, tap the arrow in the upper left corner of the running file manager.
- Copied As a result of the execution of the previous items of the Instructions, the image is now pitching on the "My Files" tab of Documents from READDLE. Tap the three points in the area with its preview, and then select "Move" in the menu that opens.
Next, tap the names target for the directory file in the list displayed on the screen and press the "Move" button on the right on the right.
- On this journey, photos from the VATSAP chat in the third-party program completed. Open the above directory in the "Explore" specified in step and make sure that the copy received is now located in it.
Conclusion
Saving photos from WhatsApp in the Android-smartphones and iPhone repository is an easy procedure, which is not the only way. Posstracted by the decision of the task considered in the article, in fact, can not at all make any actions specifically, confusting the execution of the download provided in the messenger functions, but not forgetting that there is always the opportunity to bring the process in compliance with your needs.