{"id":24265,"date":"2022-06-12T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T08:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=24265"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T08:57:28","slug":"android-where-are-whatsapp-pictures-stored-on-the-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24265\/android-where-are-whatsapp-pictures-stored-on-the-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Android: Where are WhatsApp pictures stored on the smartphone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read WhatsApp pictures and videos via USB, this is how it works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We all probably receive quite a lot of pictures via WhatsApp and we may want to keep one or the other picture and save it on the computer. Here it offers itself to read out the pictures and videos on the computer in one go.<\/p>\n<p>But where are <a href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/50721\/save-all-images-of-a-word-file-at-the-same-time\/\" title=\"Save all images of a Word file at the same time\">the pictures saved<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24265\/android-where-are-whatsapp-pictures-stored-on-the-smartphone\/#Smartphone_storage_location\" >Smartphone storage location<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24265\/android-where-are-whatsapp-pictures-stored-on-the-smartphone\/#Readout_via_USB\" >Readout via USB<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Smartphone_storage_location\"><\/span>Smartphone storage location<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The storage location may differ slightly on each smartphone, and it ultimately also depends on whether the phone has an SD card. By default, however, the pictures are stored in the app&#8217;s data folder. The file manager provides information about this.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nMainStorage\/Android\/media\/com.whatsapp.WhatsApp\/Media\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"130\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_1.jpg 756w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_1-300x52.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If we now look with the file manager, in the example I use the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=nextapp.fx&#038;hl=de&#038;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FX File Explorer<\/a>&#8221; we find the folder. The folder contains subfolders each by media type, for example images or videos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_2.png 438w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_2-278x300.png 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Readout_via_USB\"><\/span>Readout via USB<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If we now connect the smartphone via USB and activate the USB data exchange, we will also find the folders here via the Explorer:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\\Pixel 4a (5G)\\Internal Storage\\Android\\media\\com.whatsapp\\WhatsApp\\Media\\WhatsApp Images\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"936\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_3.png 936w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_3-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/whats_app_3-768x154.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we can read out the files.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read WhatsApp pictures and videos via USB, this is how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}