Get rid of WhatsApp junk files with upcoming storage management tool

By Angelin Yeoh

You can set WhatsApp not to automatically download certain media files. — Screengrab from YouTube

Is your phone clogged up by Good Morning pictures from WhatsApp messages? Good news, the company is rolling out a tool this week to help you deal with that.

In a tweet, the company said the Manage Storage feature will make it easy to review and delete media files en masse to free up space.

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