How to send media
Share media, documents, location, contacts, or Messenger Rooms links
- Open an individual or group chat.
- Tap Attach
- Document to select a document from your phone.
- Camera to take a picture with your camera.
- Gallery to select an existing photo or video from your phone. Tap and hold to select multiple images.
- Audio to send existing audio from your phone.
- Room to create and share a Messenger Rooms link.
- Location to send your location or a nearby place.
- Contact to send the information of a contact saved in your phone's address book over WhatsApp.
- You can also add captions to photos and videos. Swipe between photos to add captions to each one.
- Tap Send
Note: The maximum allowed document size is 100 MB. In order to send a document within WhatsApp, the document must be saved locally on your phone. Alternatively, WhatsApp will appear as an option in the share menu of apps that handle documents. When you download a document, it’ll be automatically saved in your WhatsApp Documents folder: WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Documents, which can be accessed with a file explorer app.
Forward media, documents, locations, or contacts
- Open an individual or group chat.
- Tap and hold the type of message you wish to forward. You can select multiple messages.
- Tap Forward
- Choose the chat you wish to forward the message to.
- Tap Send
When you forward media, documents, locations, or contacts, you don't have to upload them again. Any forwarded messages that weren't originally sent by you will display a "Forwarded" label.
Note: Captions won't be forwarded along with media. You won't be able to forward messages to broadcast lists.