WhatsApp’s method of downloading photos to your phone can prove to be an issue if you don’t have a habit of routinely cleaning your phone. You could choose to delete the entire WhatsApp media folder to get rid of all the photos, but there might be some important photos found within the folder as well.
If going through the folder yourself is too much of a hassle, why not have an application that will assist you with the task. That’s the logic behind an Android application called Magic Cleaner.
Developed by an Indian startup called Siftr, Magic Cleaner is a self-described “photo cleaner” app that scans your WhatsApp folder for “junk photos” and deletes them if prompted. According to Siftr, Magic Cleaner uses a self-made image recognition engine that analyses the content of an image to determine the value of the image.
The app does so by sending small hashes of the images to Siftr’s database of images. Once identified, Magic Cleaner would sort photos as either normal photos or junk photos.
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