How to save the photo of your contacts in WhatsApp

There is no doubt that WhatsApp is the most popular free message application, its millions and millions of users around the world contribute to the successful revolution it causes in the mobile phone instant messaging sector. Moreover, we well know that in a certain way it ruined the operators' SMS income, because having this wonderful free application, unlimited and with many more options ... why spend on a short SMS!

If you are a WhatsApp user, you may have noticed that among its predefined options there is no possibility of save a contact's profile pictureHowever, there is a simple trick that will allow you to do it without much fuss. Let's see step by step in this mini-tutorial.

Trick to get the profile picture of your friends on WhatsApp

1. Select a contact to start a conversation

whatsapp contact

2. Press the menu of your mobile and choose «View contact»To access your information

whatsapp contact

3. Press on their profile picture to view it in full screen

4. Close WhatsApp and with your file explorer -if you don't have one I recommend ES File Explorer (it's free)- go to the location of the WhatsApp folder.

whatsapp folder

5. Finally open the subfolder «Profile Pictures»

whatsapp subfolder

6. Done! there you have the photo of your contacts on WhatsApp 

photo of your contacts on WhatsApp

How does this trick work? Easy, when you open the photo of your contact in large, a copy is automatically saved in the Profile Pictures directory of the WhatsApp folder, so you need to explore that path and repeat the steps for each contact you want to obtain their profile picture.

By having your friends' photos at your complete disposal on WhatsApp, you can copy, cut, share, move, rename, delete, set as wallpaper and whatever you want 

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