is one of the best messaging app which allows you to send any type of media and also to share your location with others. It’s fast, smooth and easy to use. You can either chat personally with your friends and relatives or you can start a group chat.

In this article I’m talking about the media files (like images, audio and videos). Whenever we receive any media file via whatsapp, it either starts downloading automatically or in some cases you’ll have to download those media file manually. Keeping in mind that some people prefer manual downloading of media files and some prefer automatic, whatsapp had provided us options to customize auto download of media files.

Customize Auto Download of Media Files on Whatsapp:

Go to Media Auto Download:

Launch the Whatsapp application, press the Menu button and tap on “Settings”. Now Go to “Chat Settings” and then Tap on “Media auto-download”.

Customize Media Auto-Download:

In Media auto-download, there’ll be three options and under these options you can select which type of file you want to set for auto-download.

When using mobile data:

The selected media will be downloaded under your service provider’s data plan. If you have no activated data plan, then this can lead to data charges while downloading the media.

When connected on Wi-Fi:

The selected media will be downloaded when the device is connected to a Wi-Fi connection.

When Roaming:

This option allows you to select that which type of media you want the auto-download when you’re under roaming.

It is important to note that you cannot customize the voice messages. They will always be automatically downloaded. So these were simple steps to customize media downloads of Whatsapp messaging application. Check out our other quick tips like how can you stop Auto-updates of Applications on your Android device.