Many times when we see some Display Pictures of our friends we like it very much but as WhatsApp do not provide any default option to save or download Display Pictures of your friends and contacts due to privacy reasons of WhatsApp , we are not allowed to do it.
But it doesn't mean that you can not Save Profile Pictures of your friends in your phone. In fact , whenever you open any profile pictures of your friend , it is automatically saved in to your phone's memory. When you Tap on Profile pic of your friend , it takes some time to load and in the mean time it gets saved into your phone. You can access it by visiting path directory /sdcard/WhatsApp/Profile Pictures in your smartphone.
Method 1
So for Saving Profile pictures by above method , simply follow the steps given below :
- Open WhatsApp
- Go to the chat screen of that person whose pic you want to save
- Tap on the name of that person
- Contact Info Page will be displayed
- Tap on the picture
- Wait til the pic is loaded
- Now close the WhatsApp and Open File Manager/WhatsApp/Profile Picture.
Method 2
If you dont want to follow the above explained manual and step by step method for saving Profile Pictures of your friends then you can take use of this specialized app which is specially designed to solve this purpose. By using WhatsApp Profile you can Manage profile pictures opened in WhatsApp application. The application automatically understands the relative contact in your address book from the WhatsApp profile image. You can Save/Share/Set as contact image a specific profile picture.All you have to do is , Open Whatsapp application , open a profile picture you want to save then open WhatsApp Profile. You can view that image and with single tap you can Save , Share , Set as contact pic or even Set as wallpaper on your phone. You can use this saved pic in any way you want.
You can download this app from Google PlayStore here : DOWNLOAD
I hope using above tricks you can simply save or download any profile pic used by your whatsapp contacts and use them as you want.