How to Redownload Deleted Media On WhatsApp

Source: Dailypost

So finally whatsapp has rolled out important update which all we need. WhatsApp has silently introduced new feature for re-downloading deleted media including images, Gifs, Videos, audios and recordings.

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A few days, WhatsApp allows to download deleted media from their servers again. This automatically translates in the fact that WhatsApp continues to store our media on their servers also after downloading them. This feature was partially available before: undownloaded media were available for 30 days and, when the recipient downloaded the media, WhatsApp immediately deleted it from the server. Recently, WhatsApp has modified this behavior: when a media is successfully downloaded, WhatsApp doesn’t delete it from the server, allowing the users to download it again if the file was accidentally deleted in the path where WhatsApp saves media (sdcard/WhatsApp/).

How to re-download Media

 In order to request to download the deleted media, it’s very important that we didn’t delete the message in WhatsApp, otherwise it won’t be possible. Only if the file has been deleted in sdcard/WhatsApp/ and you have the message in the chat, you can successfully download it again. Media files continue to be end-to-end encrypted also if WhatsApp doesn’t delete them from the server, so there’s anything to worry about. The feature doesn’t seems to be available for iOS users, probably because the directory where WhatsApp saves media isn’t easily accessible, so this problem does not occur for them.

So this feature is great and very important for all of us specially for me because i delete every time after watching videos.

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