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WhatsApp is responsible for eating a large part of your phone's memory and you probably don't know it if you have a mobile with many gigs of storage.

However, if you have a phone with little memory it is possible that you often skip the happy icon of almost full memory and you have to be struggling to release mega by mega to be able to lead a normal life with your mobile.

However, WhatsApp has incorporated a new function to allow you to free up space at a stroke.

To date, there were also ways to solve the storage problems caused by WhatsApp (as we explained in this article) although things were a bit more complicated.

Although when you download the application you only need a few hundred megabytes available, things will change in a few days and you will see that WhatsApp eats up more and more memory.

The best metaphor to understand it is that the WhatsApp app is like a bag made of an elastic material: when you take it down it is empty but little by little it will fill up and the limit is set by the memory of your mobile.

The culprit that the WhatsApp sack is filling up is not the text messages or the audios.

These consume very little memory on your phone.

The main responsible are the images and videos that you exchange with your family and friends.

This happens despite the fact that WhatsApp, by default, compresses the photos and videos sent and received through the application if you use the option to send photos or videos.

If you want your files to not lose quality, you must select the clip next to the writing bar, select the document option and choose the image or recording that you want to share.

How to know how much memory my WhatsApp eats

The easiest way to know how many gigabytes of your mobile's memory WhatsApp eats is to open the application, select the three points in the upper right corner.

Choose the settings option and select the "data and storage" menu.

Don't worry if the WhatsApp app doesn't give you the information instantly, it may take a few seconds to do the calculations.

The new WhatsApp function to free up memory

WhatsApp's new function to free up memory on your phone is due to the changes that Facebook (the owner of this app) has introduced in the storage management tool.

This is a function that you should already have available on your mobile.

However, if it has not reached you yet, you will only need to have a little patience because it is a tool that is being implemented throughout this week, according to WhatsApp itself.

To be able to enjoy this feature, you must click on the three points in the upper right corner, select the "settings" option.

Then you must enter "data and storage" to finally select the option "storage manager":

Once inside, you can explore the new feature to its full potential.

You will see how a menu full of files shows you.

Within this menu you can carry out a quick deletion by selecting the files that are larger than those that have been forwarded many times.

In this way, you can keep WhatsApp at bay and prevent it from eating up your phone's memory without having to delete applications to gain space mega by mega.

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