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If you can do that kudos to you. Just yesterday I got a video on WA that was around 30MB and it was downloaded automatically. When you are in roaming WA is smar

If you can do that kudos to you. Just yesterday I got a video on WA that was around 30MB and it was downloaded automatically. When you are in roaming WA is smart enough to not download it unless you click on it, but when you have a data connection in your home country you have no say (to the best of my knowledge).

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debugnik 5y ago
There are settings to not download media files automatically even on WiFi. To download you click on it first, and you get to see how large the file is beforehand.
Spare_account 5y ago
Here are the instructions on how to change that: https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/configuring-auto-download/?lang=en https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/configuring-auto-down... The formatting is messed up for me, so here's an third party alternative: https://drfone.wondershare.com/whatsapp/how-to-stop-auto-download-in-whatsapp.html https://drfone.wondershare.com/whatsapp/how-to-stop-auto-dow...
- marcyb5st 5y ago
  Thanks!!!