How to Save WhatsApp Statuses to Phone Without Apps

 

What is WhatsApp?

WhatsApp is a well-known free messaging application with more than 5 billion downloads in the Google Play store. WhatsApp LLC provides WhatsApp Apps for Android, IOS, Windows, and also a WhatsApp Web version. Other than messaging and calling, you can upload stories or statuses to WhatsApp as your friend can see. One major question from WhatsApp users around the world is, “How to save WhatsApp statuses to the phone?”. So, today we are going to talk about “How to save WhatsApp statuses to the phone, without any software”.

When you open a status from one of your contacts, you can see it will download. But you cannot see the downloaded WhatsApp status in your gallery even after downloading. However, did you know all these status, pictures, and videos, are saved in your phone’s storage temporarily?

 

Why can't we see the WhatsApp Statuses in the gallery?

 

Although WhatsApp statuses will save to the phone, they will be saved in a hidden folder. That is why we cannot see the downloaded WhatsApp statuses in the gallery.

 

Where is the WhatsApp folder Located?

 

Before 2021, the WhatsApp application saved its data in a separate folder in the main directory named WhatsApp. But after 2021, you may not see a WhatsApp folder in the main directory because it has been moved into the Android folder on your device. WhatsApp folder can be accessed through the following path.

“Android > Media > com.whatsapp >  WhatsApp”

 

Saving WhatsApp statuses

 

As we discussed before, the folder where WhatsApp statuses are saved is hidden. To see the hidden folders, you have to set your file explorer’s setting to “Show Hidden Folders”. Generally, you can find that setting in the file explorer settings. Maybe you have to go to Display settings and find the show the hidden folders.

1. Once you select “Show Hidden Folders”, you will see a folder named “.Statuses” in the path, “Android > Media > com.whatsApp >  WhatsApp > Media”

 

2. Open that folder and you will see all the WhatsApp statuses currently you can see, and you have downloaded are in this folder.

Note: Saved statuses will be automatically deleted from the “.Status” folder after 24 hours

3. Copy the status or statuses you want to keep.
 

4. Go to the folder you want to save the copied files and paste them. Since the copied WhatsApp statuses are not in the “.Statuses” folder, they will not be deleted automatically.

That's all for it and I believe you got the procedure to save WhatsApp statuses. Install no more apps to save WhatsApp statuses. Do it smart! Thank you for reading and hope to see you with another interesting article. And do not forget to post a comment if you are having any questions. I am more than happy to answer!