WhatsApp is a popular messaging app with a large user base. People who use it usually have many group chats in which they share videos and pictures. Even if you disable the option to save media to your camera roll, WhatsApp still can take up several GBs of storage space. ..

WhatsApp is a messaging app that is used by millions of people around the world. It has a large storage space and can keep a history of your chats for future reference. However, reducing the amount of storage space WhatsApp is using can help you save on your phone bill and also improve your overall privacy.

Find the Biggest Chats in WhatsApp

To figure out which chats are taking up the most space on WhatsApp, you can use the Storage & iCloud Usage screen. This screen shows you how much space is being used by WhatsApp and other apps, as well as how much space is available on your phone.

If you’re using WhatsApp for calls, messages, or both, then the app is taking up a lot of space. To figure out how much space the app is using, open WhatsApp and tap on Data and Storage Usage.

This will show you how much storage your device is using.

Your phone’s storage space is limited, so it’s important to keep your chats and other important files in separate folders. You can find a list of which chats are taking up the most space on your phone by looking at your app’s settings.

My Family group chat is eating up almost half a gigabyte of data, so we can start to clear them out.

Export and Clear Chats

WhatsApp allows you to clear a chat, delete a chat, or archive a chat. Clearing a chat removes all of the messages in the chat from your phone and also removes the history of the chat. Deleting a chat removes the message and all associated data from your phone but leaves the history of the chat intact. Archiving a chat saves all of the messages in a chat as an archive on your phone. ..

To clear a chat, open the Chats tab and select the chat you want to clear. Then, click the Clear Chat button.

Clearing a chat will remove all the previous chat history, so you need to export the chat before you clear it if you care to keep a history of the chat. Once you clear a chat, new messages into those chats will begin to be saved on the phone and into iCloud like normal. ..

To clear or export a chat, you can swipe from right to left on the chat and then tap on the More icon. ..

If you want to keep the chat history on your phone, you can choose to Export Chat to iCloud Drive. ..

If you have a large group chat, it’s best to clear it out every couple of months. This will save you a lot of space overall.

WhatsApp is archiving all of your chats so that it will not use up as much space on your phone. ..

If you delete a chat instead of clearing the chat, it will remove all the message history, but in addition, it will also remove the chat from your Chats tab. If you exit the group, it doesn’t automatically delete the group or chat history. After exiting a group, you have to swipe again, go to More and then tap on Delete Group.

Adjust Chat Settings

You can perform the actions on all chats by tapping on Settings and then Chats.

You can archive all chats, clear all chats, or delete all chats. I don’t really recommend doing this unless you really don’t care about saving any kind of chat history. Clearing all chats is still a better option than deleting because you’ll still be able to see the chats on the Chats tab. ..

To save space on your iPhone or iPad, you should toggle off the Save to Camera Roll option. This can save a lot of space on your iCloud photo library, especially if you are in a group where people share pictures and videos often. ..

If you tap on Chat Backup, you can see how much space is being used in iCloud for WhatsApp chat history. In my case, before I cleared out the big chats, my total size was over 1 GB, but now it’s only around 64 MB.

With the option to export chats too, WhatsApp should be taking up less space on your iPhone than it currently does.