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True, but God does WhatsApp suck.

They've got a billion-strong userbase and yet the Android app still dumped literally every attachment I received into my camera roll until I manually added '.nomedia' files in the right places.

And, oh man, the API for businesses is a Kafkaesque nightmare. Maybe it was good before it got Zucked, but I had to fight with their support for over a week to get an automated ban-hammer overturned... only for it to get auto-banned again two days later. We hadn't even deployed the damn thing yet!

>>coloni+(OP)
Dont know about Andriod but iOS you can select not to save images into camera roll.

>>coloni+(OP)
That's a feature, not a bug Users are conditioned to look there for any kind of image on their device

>>coloni+(OP)
> literally every attachment I received into my camera roll

There's a global setting for this: media visibility: off.

Then you can enable that per chat.

I have all chat images contained to only Whatsapp by default. Then I only enable some chats (family, friends) to expose images/videos to the phone.

Google Photos scoops those and backsup all family pictures shared to whatsapp to my Google Photos.

I'm the family's reliable source of truth when it comes to family photos.

>>coloni+(OP)
What's "camera roll"? WA images go into the "WhatsApp Images" folder. They're separate from "Camera".

>>virapt+cx1
Every Android "gallery"-type app I've ever used defaults to a view that mixes together every known album/folder on the device.

That works fine (and is in fact easier than remembering the exact album) when I get to pick and choose exactly what I photograph/save, but it became borderline unusable once WhatsApp started vomiting hundreds of stupid GIFs and throwaway screenshots into it.