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WhatsApp to help stop data hogs from chowing your precious data cap with new granular storage!
No one will argue that WhatsApp chows storage space on your phone
WhatsApp has added a beta feature in the storage section to provide users a sneak peek into the exact amount of internal memory an ongoing chat with a friend or a group is occupying on their smartphone.
This would help users identify groups and chats which are using up vital storage space on their phone.
Also to identify friends who share too much, thus eating away at your precious data cap!
With users already able to send larger files (100meg) to each other, this feature is a logical control mechanism to protect against the dreaded slow-down of WhatsApp as it becomes bloated with data-intensive messages.
Currently, you can only access this feature if you are a WhatsApp beta member. You can become a member by signing up with WhatsApp Beta either in the iTunes Store or Play Store.
Once you are a beta member, you can access it by following these simple steps:
To access it, go to Settings->Data and Storage usage-> Storage usage and you can see the contacts and groups with the highest data use on your phone.
By tapping on the contact, you can see a breakdown of the space taken up by images, videos and docs, and delete them manually.
If they are taking up chunks of hard drive space on your phone, imagine how much of your precious ISP data they chowed to send you all that bloatware.
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This feature will hopefully role out soon to all WhatsApp users.
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