WhatsApp is one of the most popular, most used and the most efficient instant messaging application available out there. With billions of users using WhatsApp, there is no doubt that the features and functionality offered is loved by almost everyone.One of the best features of WhatsApp is that it has multi-platform support and extends its support to almost every popular mobile operating system out there including Android and iOS. With the recent introduction of WhatsApp for Web and WhatsApp client for Windows PC, using the messenger for instant texting hav been joyous than ever.
Similar to the multi platform support, yet another awesome feature of WhatsApp is that it supports all kind of Smartphones, irrespective of their internal storage space availability or RAM capacity.
However, users with Smartphones having low internal storage space finds it quite difficult to use the WhatsApp messenger, as the messenger always stores the incoming picture and video files directly into the device’s internal storage space, which fills up the internal storage space of devices quite faster.
If you are facing the same issue, then today we are here with a detailed guide on how to move WhatsApp images and videos to SD card easily.
How to Move WhatsApp Images and Videos to SD card Easily:
Below is how you can easily move images and videos stored by WhatsApp on your internal storage space, to your SD card, easily:
There is no official way by WhatsApp by which you can move images and videos to your external SD card. However, there is an easy to follow way to move images and videos stored by WhatsApp on your internal storage to your device’s SD card.
Step 1:
First of all, before beginning the guide, make sure that your device has a File Manager application installed by default. In case a File Manager application is not present on your device, then please download it from the Google Play Store. We recommend the ES File Explorer application. It is one of the fastest and most efficient file manager applications out there.
Step 2:
Once you have a File Manager application installed, run the application and navigate to the internal storage space root folder of your device.
Step 3:
From the internal storage folder, locate a folder named “WhatsApp”. This is where all the data received by your WhatsApp messenger is stored.
Step 4:
From the “WhatsApp” folder, locate a folder named “Media”. This folder houses all the images, videos and other media files that you receive via WhatsApp. Long press on the “Media” folder and cut the “Media” folder.
Step 5:
Exit from the Internal Storage root folder and now navigate to the external SD card root folder from the File Manager application.
Step 6:
Under the root SD card folder, create a new folder with name as “WhatsApp”.
Step 7:
Inside this newly created folder, paste the “Media” folder that you cut earlier.
And that’s it !! You have now easily move WhatsApp Images and Videos files from your internal storage to your device’s SD card.