WhatsApp is used by millions of people daily to communicate with their friends and family. Sometimes this communication entails text messages, but it can also include media, such as sharing photos and videos. This article will show you how to send photos from WhatsApp to your email, regardless of which email client you use.
Why You Might Want to Transfer Photos from WhatsApp to Email
There is a range of reasons as to why you might want to transfer photos from your WhatsApp to your email. One of these is to have a second copy of the photos you would like to keep. Since email providers often offer a few gigabytes of free storage, sending some of your WhatsApp photos to your email and keeping them there as a backup is possible.
Another reason why you might want to transfer your photos from WhatsApp to your email is that you can access these photos from another device, especially a PC. It is usually easier to log in to your email instead of having to log in to WhatsApp Web.
One other reason why you might want to transfer photos from WhatsApp to your email is that you can share them with other people via email without using WhatsApp because although WhatsApp is very popular, not everyone uses it.
How to Send WhatsApp Photos to Email on Android Devices
This part of the article discusses how you can transfer WhatsApp photos from your Android phone to your email account. Part 3 will outline how you can do this on iPhones since the process is different. Before you transfer the photos from WhatsApp to your email account on your Android phone, you need to make sure that you have:
- An email account that has some storage space free (if you have been using your email account just to send emails, you should usually be fine).
- An application on your phone that allows you to access this email address.
- A stable internet connection.
Once you have met these requirements, do the following:
- Open WhatsApp and find the images you want to transfer to your email by looking through your chats.
- Hold on to these images until they are selected.
- Tap on the share option and choose your email application.
- Send the email to yourself (which can be the email account you are using to send the message).
It can be difficult finding photos, especially if you received them a while ago. However, if you are allowing your WhatsApp media to be viewable in your gallery, you can send them to your email through your gallery instead. To do this:
- Open your gallery and find the WhatsApp photos you want to send to your email.
- Select them and tap on the share option.
- Choose your email application and send the email to yourself.
How to Send WhatsApp Photos to Email from an iOS Device
Just how you can send photos as an email on Android devices, you can do the same for iPhones. Make sure you are logged into an email account either on an email application such as Outlook or the default mail app that is installed on your iPhone. The method to send photos to your email on an iPhone and other iOS devices is:
- Open the WhatsApp messenger application on your iPhone and find the chat that has the photo(s) you wish to transfer.
- Click on the photo you would like to transfer.
- Tap on the share symbol and then choose “Share”.
- Choose your email application and then send the email to the desired email account.
That’s all you need to do to transfer photos via email. However, since this method is quite slow, you could opt for other options to send photos, such as copying the media file (this is easier to do on Android phones than iPhones) and looking for photos within there.
How to Access Photos You Have Sent from WhatsApp via Email
Once you have sent the photos from WhatsApp as an email, you may be wondering how you can access these files. For this, you will either need to know the email address the photos were sent to or the account that was used to send the photos.
If you know the email account that the email containing the photos was sent to you, simply log into this email account and then find the email that was sent. You can then choose to download these photos.
However, if you would like to access the photos but you only know the account that was used to send the photos, you can log into this account. Then, go into your “sent” folder and find the email that was sent. You will still be able to download the photos from here. Alternatively, you can forward the email to another address.
Conclusion
This article has demonstrated that sending photos from WhatsApp to an email address is quite easy, however, it can become tedious if you wish to transfer many photos. There are alternative methods for this, such as sharing these files but then choose to upload them to Google Drive or another cloud file storage application.
We hope you have found this informative and feel free to leave a comment letting us know if you found this guide useful.
