WhatsApp Tests Per-Chat Storage Management in Beta

WhatsApp is testing a new per-chat storage management feature that lets users see and clear the space used by individual conversations directly from each chat’s info screen, company beta builds show. The tool, appearing in recent Android and iOS beta releases, presents a gallery of shared files for a chat and allows users to sort and delete items by size or date without leaving the conversation.

The feature adds a Manage Storage option to the chat info page, showing how much space a specific conversation occupies on the device and listing photos, videos, documents and other files in a grid view. Users can sort items by criteria such as newest, oldest and largest, and identify and remove bulky files in bulk. On Android the functionality has appeared in beta version 2.25.31.13; on iOS it is available to a limited group of beta testers and is being rolled out gradually.

WhatsApp already provides global storage controls under Settings > Storage and Data > Manage Storage and a Media, Links and Docs view inside each chat. The new per-chat management consolidates those steps by adding file-size visibility and sorting inside the chat info screen, enabling users to pinpoint space hogs...