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Do you want to get rid of all photos, videos, and chats on WhatsApp all at once? This can be done in your settings. You can choose to delete media and keep chats, or you can choose to delete everything. Here's how to delete all media on WhatsApp using your iPhone or Android.
Quick Steps
- Open Settings .
- Tap Storage and Data .
- Tap Manage Storage .
- Select a chat.
- Tap Select All .
- Tap the trash can icon.
Steps
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Open WhatsApp. It’s the green app with the white phone and chat bubble icon.- If you aren't logged in, enter your phone number to do so now.
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Tap Settings . You’ll find it in the bottom-right corner of the screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the back button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Tap Storage and Data . It's near the bottom of the screen. -
Tap Manage Storage . A new page will open. -
Select a chat. You'll see all open chats listed. -
Tap Select All . This will select all media in the chat.- If you only want to select certain media, tap and hold an item you want to delete. Then, select more items. [1] X Research source
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Tap the trash can icon. If there were starred items in your selection, you can select Delete All Except Starred or Delete All . -
Tap Delete Item(s) . This will confirm the action.- The media will be deleted.
- Repeat this process for all other chats.
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Open WhatsApp. It's the green app with a white phone and chat bubble icon.- If you aren't logged in, enter your phone number to do so now.
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Tap â‹® . You can find this button in the top-right corner of your screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the back button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Tap Settings . It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu. -
Tap Storage and data . It's in the middle of the page. -
Tap Manage storage . You'll find this option at the top of the page.- If this option is gone, WhatsApp doesn't have any media that you can delete.
- If you're encountering storage errors and this option is gone, try deleting and reinstalling WhatsApp .
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Tap Select All . This will select all media in the chat.- If you only want to select certain media, tap and hold an item you want to delete. Then, select more items.
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Tap the trash can icon. If there were starred items in your selection, you can select Delete All Except Starred or Delete All . -
Tap Delete Item(s) . This will confirm the action.- The media will be deleted.
- Repeat this process for all other chats.
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Open WhatsApp. It’s the green app with the white phone and chat bubble icon.- If you aren't logged in, enter your phone number to do so now.
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Tap Settings . You’ll find it in the bottom-right corner of the screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the back button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Tap Chats . A new page will open. -
Tap Clear All Chats . This is towards the bottom of the page. -
Enter your phone number when prompted. Tap the "your phone number" text field in the middle of the page, and then enter the phone number that you used to create your WhatsApp account. -
Tap Clear All Chats . All chats will be deleted from your WhatsApp account.
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Open WhatsApp. It's the green app with a white phone and chat bubble icon.- If you aren't logged in, enter your phone number to do so now.
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Tap â‹® . You can find this button in the top-right corner of your screen.- If WhatsApp opens to a conversation, first tap the back button in the top-left corner of the screen.
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Tap Settings . It's at the bottom of the drop-down menu. -
Tap Chats . You'll find this option near the top of the Settings page. -
Tap Chat history . It's near the bottom of the Chats page. -
Tap Clear all chats . This option is near the bottom of the page.- If desired, check the boxes for Also delete media received in chats from the device gallery and/or Delete starred messages .
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Enter your phone number when prompted. Tap the "your phone number" text field in the middle of the page, and then enter the phone number that you used to create your WhatsApp account. -
Tap Clear chats . All chats will be deleted from your WhatsApp account. However, you can recover it with a back up if one was made before the deletion.
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Tips
- You can delete a message for everyone in a chat by long-pressing the chat, tapping Delete in the pop-up menu (or the trash icon on Android), and tapping Delete for Everyone . As long as you do this within 7 minutes of sending the message, the message will be deleted from the chat on everyone's phones.Thanks
- WhatsApp saves a few megabytes of cached information, meaning that you'll never fully remove all media from WhatsApp's storage. The only way to clear WhatsApp completely is by deleting all chats, uninstalling WhatsApp from your phone, and then reinstalling it.Thanks
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Warnings
- Deleting all messages and/or media from your WhatsApp account won't delete it from the accounts of other WhatsApp users with whom you've chatted.Thanks
- Once you delete something from WhatsApp, you can't get it back.Thanks
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