WhatsApp is set to delete your old conversations soon, thanks to an old update… Here’s how to keep them.
Do you have discussions that you care about? Family conversation with vacation photos or photos of a newborn? You should save them as soon as possible, because WhatsApp might delete them soon…
Indeed, Meta’s messaging seeks to optimize the space it takes up on your smartphone and with this in mind: arbitrarily delete chat histories.
Why does WhatsApp delete your chats?
In reality, it’s not all your chats that will disappear, but only those that you had stored on Google Drive. If the application once allowed you to store almost anything you wanted on it, WhatsApp will now limit the use of Drive to 15GB and as much to say that between:
- Group chats with many messages,
- Photos and videos in HD.
This space is likely to be saturated quickly…
If you don’t want to lose all your chats, there are a few ways to protect them from deletion:
- Buy storage space online : the first 15 GB are free but it is entirely possible to increase this space by paying for 100, 200 GB or even 2 TB.
- Disable automatic media backup : In ” data usage and storage » you can uncheck the automatic download of media and thus not clutter the storage space with all the photos and HD videos.
- Enable auto-delete or use ephemeral messages : you may not want or need to keep the history of all your conversations. To free up space, it is entirely possible to send ephemeral messages that will automatically delete themselves between 24 hours, 7 days or 90 days (depending on your choices).
The goal would therefore be to allow you to manually download the photos and videos you want to keep and to let WhatsApp automatically delete non-essential messages to free up storage space without letting the messaging do arbitrary sorting.
