

On iPhone, try to keep the conversation open while downloading the file and don’t push the app in the background. Prefer connecting to the 5GHz band instead of the 2.4GHz on your Wi-Fi network. While downloading a file, make sure you are in a good network range. That’s a good amount of data, and you need a strong internet connection to download PDF files in triple-digit size. One can send up to 100MB in file size over WhatsApp. Step 3: Go to Permissions > Storage and select Allow option. Step 2: Long-press on the WhatsApp icon and select the info button. Step 1: Identify WhatsApp from the App drawer or the Android home screen. Follow the steps below to give storage permission on Android. If you have denied the permission during setup or from the Settings menu, it won’t save the file. WhatsApp requires relevant storage permission to access the device storage to store downloaded files and photos. Now the app is all set to use mobile data on the iPhone and you can easily download PDF files from the chat. Step 3: Open WhatsApp and enable Mobile Data from the following menu. Step 1: Open the Settings app on the iPhone.

So if you have disabled Mobile Data from the WhatsApp settings menu, you can’t download a PDF. IOS allows users to restrict mobile data for specific apps from the Settings menu. In addition, we will mention the relevant platform wherever required. We will cover both the iPhone and Android in the solutions list below.
