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Android users to soon manage chat data storage on WhatsApp

By selecting any chat, users can see a detailed tally of every message type that has been sent or received

Updated - September 19, 2017 02:03 pm IST

Published - September 19, 2017 02:01 pm IST - San Francisco

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A Whatsapp App logo is seen behind a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone that is logged on to Facebook in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, February 20, 2014. Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world's largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications and may bring younger users into the fold. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: BUSINESS)

A Whatsapp App logo is seen behind a Samsung Galaxy S4 phone that is logged on to Facebook in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, February 20, 2014. Facebook Inc will buy fast-growing mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in a landmark deal that places the world's largest social network closer to the heart of mobile communications and may bring younger users into the fold. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Tags: BUSINESS)

WhatsApp Beta has added granular storage management - which was earlier available only on iOS - to Android that will allow users to manage their chat data storage better.

Users can soon go to ‘Data and storage usage’ under ‘Settings’ and then to ‘Storage usage’ to see the list of chats sorted, the space taken by them on the device, Android Police reported late on Monday.

By selecting any chat, users can see a detailed tally of every message type that has been sent or received, such as text messages, shared contact cards, locations, images, GIFs, videos, audio messages and documents.

The new feature provides ‘Manage messages’ option to select and delete the various message types.

The function is available on the latest v2.17.340 beta version of WhatsApp.

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