

You can avoid the complexity and rely on a 3rd party app to save your friend’s WhatsApp Status. You can access them later by opening the folder where it was copied to. That’s it! The copied photos or videos will be stored forever.

You need to open the settings of your file manager and set it to show hidden files.

So, what you can do is to copy them out of the temporary folder and save them to a safe location. WhatsApp saves the status files (photos/videos) locally on the phone.

Both of them are explained in detail below: Save status files manually (using File Manager) However, if you need to save the image statuses occasionally, then you can follow the manual way. There are two ways to save the WhatsApp Statuses easily. So what is the best way to save the statuses? Let’s find out… Save/Copy WhatsApp “Status” Photos and Videos Some users take a screenshot to save the image statuses, but how about the videos? Even the screenshots fail to keep the image in the same quality as it is on WhatsApp. Hence, WhatsApp does not offer an “official” way to save these shares. WhatsApp Status updates are perishable by nature.
