How to stop Whatsapp automatically saving photos to your phone

Camera roll on your phone filling up with too many photos you don't care about? Worse - they're being backed up too? A quick fix to solve!

If you're an iPhone user, go to settings down at the bottom right, then select the chats menu option.
In there, change the slider to off for "Save incoming media". Now future photos won't be saved to your camera roll, or in your iCloud photo library which should help with the pesky message about your iCloud storage being full.

If you're an Android user, Download a file explorer app, such as ES File Explorer and then navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Media. Then, rename the “WhatsApp Images” and “WhatsApp Video” folders to “.WhatsApp Images” and “.WhatsApp Video” respectively.

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Beware of Whatsapp scammers

A few hours ago I got a text from an unknown number to me on a popular texting app on smartphones called WhatsApp. After a quick google of the country code it showed that the number originated from Thailand.

If you ever get unsolicited text messages from anyone it's always helpful to try and google the number to see if it shows up anywhere. I've included my screenshot below from when I got the message.

It's very import and you just delete the message straightaway and do not click any of the links inside the message. Clicking the links inside will take you to a website which shows to the sender that you have validated your number and displayed in interest. The scammer will then continually likely send you text messages and all call you in order to get information from you.

In this instance, the number that I got the message from was +66 86 643 2701

Just a warning to everyone to not click any links you may get a message from from this number or from any number that you don't recognise for that matter.

This is another friendly public service announcement :)