{"id":188299,"date":"2022-04-11T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=188299"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:49:25","slug":"turning-off-whatsapps-media-visibility-disappearing-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/turning-off-whatsapps-media-visibility-disappearing-chats\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos in WhatsApp\u2019s disappearing chats no longer auto-save in your gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To keep media-sharing more secure, <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> is rolling out a new update that <strong>automatically disables<\/strong> the option to view and auto-save media files from disappearing messages in a phone\u2019s image gallery. This update is available on WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp for iOS on both beta and public builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/whatsapp-to-implement-new-update-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disappearing messages is a cool WhatsApp feature<\/a> that lets users send messages that will <strong>delete themselves<\/strong> after a set duration. Not only is it handy in clearing out storage space, but it also ensures that anything you\u2019ve sent there won\u2019t be saved by other people so easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new update takes this even further by <strong>turning off media visibility by default<\/strong> for disappearing chats. Previously, it was enabled so Android users could view media like photos and videos that were set to vanish via their phone gallery, while iOS users will have the media auto-saved to their gallery. Now, you must manually enable it if you want to save them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new feature is the same concept for both operating systems but differs in what they cover. For Android, the option \u201cMedia Visibility\u201d for disappearing messages is disabled so you <strong>can\u2019t view<\/strong> the media via your gallery. For iOS, it\u2019s the option \u201cSave to Camera Roll\u201d that\u2019s turned off so images, videos, and GIFs from disappearing chats are <strong>no longer automatically saved<\/strong> in your camera roll.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can still <strong>save these files manually<\/strong>, though\u2014or simply turn off disappearing messages. Either way, this is a pretty handy update since it provides extra privacy for the sender of the disappearing message. With the latest update of <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/archived-chats-whatsapp-beta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp archived chats coming to the Windows platform<\/a>, the popular instant chat app\u2019s security is all the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: WABetaInfo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep media-sharing more secure, WhatsApp is rolling out a new update that automatically disables the option to view and auto-save media files from disappearing messages in a phone\u2019s image gallery. This update is available on WhatsApp for Android and WhatsApp for iOS on both beta and public builds. Disappearing messages is a cool WhatsApp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/turning-off-whatsapps-media-visibility-disappearing-chats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos in WhatsApp\u2019s disappearing chats no longer auto-save in your gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9229,"featured_media":188303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-188299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188299","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\/9229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324088,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188299\/revisions\/324088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188299"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=188299"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=188299"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=188299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}