WhatsApp is rolling out an improved storage management tool to make it more useful for users to easily identify, review and bulk delete content that may be filling their phone. “We now offer easy cleanup suggestions by bucketing both large files and media that has been forwarded many times, sorting files by size in descending order, and providing a way to preview files before deleting them,” WhatsApp said on Tuesday.
Users will also see a preview of media before selecting one or multiple items to delete. The Facebook-owned instant messaging platform said that the new storage management tools are rolling out to users worldwide this week.
When available, users can navigate to the new tool by going to “Settings”, then “Storage and data” and then “Manage storage”. On the company’s third-quarter earnings call last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that roughly 100 billion messages are exchanged every day on WhatsApp.
Facebook is working on a long-term infrastructure project to let people message across its family of apps.
Mean-while, India has reported 46,253 fresh Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours. The total caseload now stands at 8,313,876. The country’s death toll has mounted to 123,579. Delhi recorded its highest single-day spike of 6,725 new coronavirus cases and its total count of cases crossed the 400,000 marks. Kerala’s tally is inching towards 450,000 with 6,862 fresh cases being detected. The Union health ministry said that Kerala, Delhi, West Bengal, and Manipur had shown an increase in the number of coronavirus infections between October 3 and November 3. During the same period, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh were the top states which registered a decline in the number of active Covid-19 cases.
