WhatsApp Will Soon Let You Manage Chat Storage On Your Phone: How It Could Work

WhatsApp chats take a lot of space on your phone because of which most of us need the cloud storage backup option. The messaging app gives you basic details on the storage but soon you can have more data on the kind of content using the storage, especially if you also have signed up for WhatsApp Business. WhatsApp beta users on iOS are seeing the feature roll out and we expect the official release to happen in the next few weeks.

WhatsApp Manage Storage: How it Works

The details about the latest WhatsApp beta feature comes via Wabetainfo, who says, “WhatsApp has introduced a new feature for some beta testers that allows them to filter their conversation list to easily manage device storage. With this feature, users can now sort their conversations by specific types, like channels, making it simpler to focus on the content that matters when optimising storage.”

As you can see here, WhatsApp seems to realise that people have a hard time checking for what content is taking space on their phone/cloud storage.

Giving them granular details ensures they don’t delete the useful content and clear up the space with photos, screenshots or even those annoying Google Morning gif images.

WhatsApp channels have become equally vital for its user base since its introduction and the filtering option between your personal chats and channel content will definitely be a welcome move. WhatsApp is offering this feature to select beta testers on iOS for now with more likely to get over the coming days.

WhatsApp recently shared its India monthly reports on the first three months of 2023 and 2024 revealed that the number of banned accounts on the messaging platform has nearly doubled this year compared to the same period last year.

According to the data between January 1 and January 31, 2024, a staggering 6,728,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. The figures surged in February, with 7,628,000 accounts banned between February 1 and February 29, 2024. March saw a further increase, with 7,954,000 accounts banned between March 1 and March 31, 2024. This brings the total number of banned accounts in the first three months of 2024 to a striking 22,310,000.