
You can then choose from various export methods, including saving in your current photos app (e.g. Tap the share icon with three dots and two lines. On Android you have to hold down the picture. The individual image then automatically ends up in the Photos folder and is transferred to the Mac using Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Library. On iPhone it will be highlighted and you can slide it up to reveal the Save option. You can then open the WhatsApp chat that contains the picture you want to keep. You don't always want to have all WhatsApp photos in your smartphone photo folder? Good: Then you have to choose a different approach: First, switch off the automatic download of WhatsApp images as described in option 1. Possibility 2: Conveniently save individual images

With automatic storage, your photos will automatically end up on the computer the next time you synchronize or via the cloud. Activate what makes sense for you.Īll WhatsApp images, films and other media are now saved on the smartphone like regular photos. Under "Data Usage" you will find the option "Media Auto-Download": The automatic saving of WhatsApp is divided into three areas: WLAN, mobile data and roaming. On Android smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy the whole thing looks a little different: Tap on the three dots in the top right corner of WhatsApp and select “Settings”. There you will find the menu item "Save in recordings", which must be switched on. On iPhone you will find the option when you start WhatsApp, tap "Settings" in the main menu and tap "Chats" here. How it works? Now: You have to look in the WhatsApp settings to see whether WhatsApp images are automatically saved in the Photos folder: And if you want your regular smartphone photos anyway via photo stream (iPhone), Dropbox or Google Photos synchronized with the PC/Mac, the WhatsApp pictures also end up directly on the computer. From here you can simply transfer them to your PC via USB. Probably the easiest way to transfer WhatsApp pictures to the PC is to automatically save the WhatsApp pictures in the photos app on your smartphone. Possibility 1: The simple solution with the photos function After all, there are several ways to transfer WhatsApp pictures to PC or Mac.


Not so easy: WhatsApp is unfortunately still not the perfect messenger, even if things have gotten better since the comment in the link.

Everyone knows the problem: you have a nice picture of your niece or grandson via WhatsApp received and want to archive it on the PC or Mac.
