To Pilber and others: This is how you will clean the storage on your phone

No need to delete important calls: Here's a guide on how to free up storage (rather than "memory"!) On your smartphone, with a focus on WhatsApp.

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Niv Lillian

08/04/2022

Friday, 08 April 2022, 14:28 Updated: 17:41

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In his testimony this week in the Jerusalem District Court, state witness Shlomo Pilber claimed that he was forced to delete "a very large pile of messages" because "I reached 96% of the phone's memory."

This is a poor excuse for deleting conversations with Bezeq executives at the time, especially when it comes out of the mouth of the former director general of the Ministry of Communications, and here is the explanation:

First, conversations, text messages are the least important part - photos, gifs and videos take up much more , And most of the storage. Second, Pilber made a mistake that many make and called the storage of the phone "memory." This, the "hard disk" of the smartphone, is a completely different component, in volumes that currently range from 64 gigabytes to terabytes (1024 gigabytes) of memory.

So for Pilber and others, here's a guide on how to free up storage (rather than "memory"!) On your phone, with a focus on WhatsApp, without having to delete important conversations with the people of media tycoons after which you may be asked to delete them in a former prime minister's bribe trial. .

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This is how you clean up WhatsApp

WhatsApp, because of its structure and the way it was written, is no small storage pig.

Its data files, which contain all your calls and media, can easily reach a few good gigabytes.

The problem is that WhatsApp is kind of a fait accompli in our lives, and we need to get along with the bad way it was originally written, and reduce the volume of its data storage and media files.

Fortunately (and in demand), WhatsApp includes an internal storage management tool, which will allow you breathing space without deleting too much, even if you are not a state witness.

The following instructions were written according to the Android version, but are also valid for iPhone:

• 1. From the WhatsApp main screen, click on the three vertical dots mark, then select

  Settings

  .

• 2. In the screen that opens, select

  Storage & Data

  .

• 3. On the Storage & Data screen, select

  Storage Management

  (Folder Icon)

Choose Storage & Data (Photo: Walla! Technology, Screenshot)

Select Storage Management (Folder Icon) (Photo: Walla! Technology, Screenshot)

In the storage management screen, we first get a graphical view of how much WhatsApp media space takes up on our phone (in green) and how many other apps and items (in bright orange).

This display is supposed to at least visually instill in us the feeling, "Hey, WhatsApp doesn't really take up much space!", But it's a deliberate illusion (thanks meta).

WhatsApp allows us to clean and remove unnecessary files from storage in a few cuts, even before we have to cut into the "animal flesh" of conversations with people (we'll get to that soon).

Graphic display, how much WhatsApp media space (Photo: Walla! Technology, screenshot)

First the software offers us to clear items under the category many times these have been transferred to all those videos, Happy New Year greetings and all sorts of nonsense that the uncle or aunt sent and good candidates for deletion.

Clicking on it will take you to a selection screen.

You can select an item, or simply select all, by checking the Select All box, then clicking the trash can will delete the items, after you get a confirmation message that you are sure you want to delete the contents.

Similarly, WhatsApp offers you to select files for deletion by size section, which is the most effective, and will show you all the content that is 5 megabytes or more in size, whether it is photos, videos, recorded sound files, presentations or just chunky files that inflate your WhatsApp.

You will receive a confirmation message that you are sure you want to delete the content (Photo: Walla! Technology, screenshot)

After these two cuts, you will see the conversations with your contacts, arranged according to the volume they occupy in the data storage.

The conversations that take up the most space (ie, contain the most media files and others that have been replaced in a conversation with a person or contact person), will appear first and in descending order.

Clicking on a specific call will also enter the list of media exchanged with that person, so that you can only clear the files that take up space - and not the text calls themselves, which are important to keep.

Passover is approaching, so take a few minutes to eliminate chametz - even on your WhatsApp.

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