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How to clean up WhatsApp and chat photos on iPhone

Chat apps can save every received photo to your camera roll. Here's how to sort them quickly, keeping only what matters.

Many chat apps, WhatsApp included, can save every photo you receive to the camera roll, usually in an album with the app's name. After a few months it's full of memes, forwarded images and duplicates.

Stop the clutter first

In WhatsApp, go to Settings › Chats and turn off Save to Photos, so new photos stop arriving automatically.

Sort the album with Photo Sensei

1. Tap the title at the top and pick the chat app's album under My albums.
2. Swipe down what you don't need and left or right what you want to keep.
3. Want to keep a photo but not in that album? Set a swipe to Remove from album: the photo stays in your library.
4. Tap Delete now to move the discarded photos to Recently Deleted with a single confirmation.