See how to hide Whatsapp photo or video from your phone Gallery
When you receive a photo or video from a contact in WhatsApp, after
you load it, it’s automatically saved to your phone’s local storage.
That means all received content from WhatsApp is visible to anyone
who gains access to your default photo gallery. Luckily, there’s a new
feature available for the Android version of the app that can prevent
this from happening.
However, Gadget Hacks says for now, this new feature is an
experiment in the WhatsApp beta for Android, but you can try it out by
joining the WhatsApp beta from Google Play.
The new feature in the WhatsApp beta for Android will prevent
photos and videos from automatically being saved to your device’s
default gallery.
Any media you have in your gallery from WhatsApp already will still
remain; only new media received going forward will be blocked from
ending up in your gallery app. All media will still be available to view
in the WhatsApp threads that they were received in.
Once you have the beta installed, there are two ways to implement this feature:
Option 1: Hide all new photos and videos in WhatsApp
If you want WhatsApp to make hiding photos and videos from the
gallery the default option for all chats, from the WhatsApp main screen,
tap the overflow icon (three vertical dots) in the top right. Next, tap
“Settings,” then select “Chats.” Finally, make sure “Show media
gallery” is deactivated under Media visibility to ensure this option
becomes the default for all of your chats.
Option 2: Override the default app-wide setting per chat
If you only want one or some of your chat’s media hidden from your
gallery, you don’t have to rely on an app-wide setting to get the job
done. You can change each chat’s setting to best fit your needs.
To start, enter one of your chat threads, then tap the contact or
chat name at the top. Next, under Media, tap “Media visibility.” You’ll
be greeted with three choices:
Default: This will be applied to all chat threads
unless you change it. All threads, by default, will use whatever setting
you have set for the whole app. For instance, if you didn’t use the
step above, it should say “Yes,” but if you did hide media app-wide, it
will say “No.”
Yes: This overrides the app-wide setting to save
all photos and videos to your device’s default gallery app just for this
conversation thread.
No: This overrides the app-wide setting to hide
all photos and videos from your device’s default gallery app just for
this conversation thread.
Choose whichever option fits your situation. However, keeping a
chat on “Default” will switch its individual setting any time you change
the default option in Step 1.
With both these options in mind, remember that you aren’t stopping
photos and videos from being received in WhatsApp. If you hide media
either app-wide or on a per-app basis, photos and videos will still be
visible in the WhatsApp chats themselves (unless you delete the media or
whole chats).
And, of course, you can reverse these settings at any time. Just
know that individual chats will need to be changed one by one unless you
have them set to “Default.”