{"id":101247,"date":"2018-05-30T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=101247"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:27:49","slug":"whatsapp-makes-a-big-change-no-more-annoying-photos-from-your-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-makes-a-big-change-no-more-annoying-photos-from-your-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp makes a big change: no more annoying photos from your contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon you\u2019ll have the power to stop photos and videos sent by your WhatsApp contacts from appearing in your phone\u2019s photo gallery. How many times have you opened your gallery to show a photo to a friend, only to find dozens of goofy photos or videos from those <\/span>idiotic, muted group chats<\/b>?<\/strong> Never fear. Those uncomfortable moments are at an end.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This new feature appears in the latest WhatsApp beta version. This means that soon <\/span>we\u2019ll have it available in the regular version. <\/b>Once the update rolls out, just have to go to the settings section of WhatsApp and then to\u00a0<\/span>Data and storage<\/b>. There will be a new option called \u201cMedia visibility.\u201d Simply disable \u201cShow media in gallery\u201d and the problem is solved.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you think about this new feature? Will you use it?<\/span> Leave us a comment!<\/b><\/p>\n

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Soon you\u2019ll have the power to stop photos and videos sent by your WhatsApp contacts from appearing in your phone\u2019s photo gallery. How many times have you opened your gallery to show a photo to a friend, only to find dozens of goofy photos or videos from those idiotic, muted group chats? Never fear. Those … Continue reading “WhatsApp makes a big change: no more annoying photos from your contacts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9091,"featured_media":97420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1082,2333,1059,1083,1081,1040,1035,1043,1080],"usertag":[790],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-101247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp","tag-facebook","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-messaging-apps","tag-social-media","tag-whatsapp","tag-windows","usertag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327934,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101247\/revisions\/327934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101247"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=101247"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=101247"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=101247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}