Sometime you see a WhatsApp status of your friend and want to save that status in your device. There are so many applications available on market that you can use to download and save WhatsApp status but none of them are from trusted sources. If you don’t want to use these third party apps to save the WhatsApp status, then go through this article and know the easiest way to save WhatsApp status either photo or video in your android phone without using any third-party apps.
Instant messaging app WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging app across the world. Years after its launched, this Meta owned app is still the mostly used messaging services. India is having the largest user base for whatsapp around 490 millions currently. Today it is used for variety of purposes that includes business, sharing photos and documents, audio call, video call etc.
Through WhatsApp status users can share photos, videos with their family and friends. Everyone wants to update their WhatsApp status with the best content. For that reason people are daily searching for the best new WhatsApp status videos, photo, quotes etc. on Google. There are lots of apps or website are available on internet that provides you the best WhatsApp status.
Sometimes your friends put some amazing WhatsApp status photo, that you want to save in your android device and for that you can took a screenshot of that photo. But, what if they put video as WhatsApp status. In this case you have to to use the WhatsApp status save application to download that status videos. If you don’t want to use any third-party apps, then the only option you have left that you can ask your friend to send you that status video.
If you don’t want your friends to request for that WhatsApp video or don’t want to use any third-party apps, then go through this article and know how you can download and save WhatsApp status videos without using any app in your android phone.
How to Save WhatsApp Status Without Installing any Third party Apps
When you watch someone’s WhatsApp status on your android phone it will automatically save on your Android‘s internal storage without your knowledge. You can download that WhatsApp status in your internal storage without using any WhatsApp status save app.
- First open your WhatsApp app on your android phone and go to the Status tab.
- Click on Status tab and watch the WhatsApp status that you want to download on your device. In order to Download the Status You have to watch the Status.
- After watching the Status, WhatsApp will store that status photo or video in a hidden folder.
- Then, you have to enable the Show Hidden Files in your file browser. For that go to your android File browser, then go to the Settings and enable Show Hidden Files. You can get this option in every android phones File manager.
In case you are not able to find the option to enable hidden files in your pre-installed File manager, then you can install the Es File Explorer from Google Play.
- First download the Es File Explorer app from Google Play Store and install it your android phone.
- Open the File Explorer and at the upper left corner you will see the three lines menu option, click on that to open the Settings.
- Open Settings, scroll down to the bottom and you will see the option show hidden files option, enable it.
- After that open the internal storage in File Explorer and search the folder named WhatsApp. Inside the WhatsApp folder you will again see different folder.
- You will select the folder named media and opened it. This will be the hidden folder, where all your watched WhatsApp Status videos or photos will stored temporarily.
- You can moves the status videos or photos from this folder that you want to save in your android device.
