Anyone who sends a lot of files via Whatsapp can quickly have a problem with the cell phone’s memory. But there is a feature that can help.

This article first appeared on RTL.de.

Who doesn’t know it: A funny video here, a cute cat photo there and the mobile phone memory is full of files that were sent via Whatsapp – and these are real memory hogs! You can change that with a special feature in the messenger service.

The feature makes managing videos and images sent via Whatsapp really user-friendly. How it works?

This is how you find the clean-up function on Whatsapp

Alternatively, you can also use the “self-deleting (previously: expired) messages” function to save storage space in advance. Because this function automatically deletes the large files that you have sent.

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