WhatsApp became the number one mobile chat-texting app and also the most downloaded texting app in the Google Play Store, with 450 million active users daily . Well,Coming to the topic, let’s see How to know what WhatsApp profile picture your Girl friend or Boy friend changed when you are not being active in WhatsApp or when you don’t see their profile. To be clear, you all might have used WhatsApp, and i hope that’s the reason you’re reading this topic. So you also know that when you’re chatting with one person (let’s keep it as your best friend) and in the mean time your Girl friend or Boy friend changed their Whatsapp profile pictures more than two, three times and there is no way for you to know what Whatsapp profile pictures they have changed when you are not chatting with them or, let’s say, when you’re not looking at their profiles. So here we are going to rely on 3rd party app called Dumpster
By default, you can see and save only current profile pictures of your friends. When your friends change their WhatsApp profile pictures, it overwrites the already existing old profile pictures in the Whatsapp profile pictures folder by their (contact number).jpg ( /sdcard/WhatsApp/Profile Pictures/xxxxxxxxx.jpg ) . By using the Dumpster application, you can see and save all the WhatsApp profile pictures of your boy friend or girl friend changed when you are not active in WhatsApp, but either your data or WiFi should be active.
So what is the Dumpster app and what does it do? Dumpster is basically a recycler app for Android, just like Recycle Bin on the Windows desktop. Like Recycle Bin in Windows, it saves all your deleted files in the Android system and is not visible in the gallery. So when your friends change their WhatsApp profile pictures, by default it overwrites the existing old WhatsApp profile picture. So now the overwritten WhatsApp profile picture is moved to Recycle Bin, which is Dumpster App here. No matter how many times your friends change their WhatsApp profile pictures, Dumpster will collect all their overwritten WhatsApp profile pictures as it considers them as deleted ones. Once you install the Dumpster app from the Play Store, you can see what WhatsApp profile pictures your boy friend or girl friend changed while you are not active on WhatsApp. Open the Dumpster app and see what WhatsApp profile picture your friends changed by their Phone number and then select “Preview” to make sure of the picture and select ” Restore ” to save it. And when you select Restore, it will ask you whether to “Replace” or “Keep Both” if old WhatsApp profile picture exists. Select your desired option to save .Don’t you think its the best way to know and save your friends WhatsApp profile pictures. You can see the below screenshot
Step 1:
To save your Friends Profile Picture using Default file Manager
Goto File manager -> Select WhatsApp Folder -> Select Profile Pictures Folder -> save the pic you want and Rename it to any
Step 2 :
See what WhatsApp profile pictures your friends changed when you are not active in WhatsApp and save it using the Dumpster App . You can get the app here
After Installing Dumpster app: >Goto Dumpster App -> Select the Picture you want to save -> Click Preview (to see the picture in big size) -> Click Restore to save it
If you know any other method than this, do let us know via the comment section and feel free to share this article.
Anonymous says
It does not work
lyda says
That’s true it does not work.
Sohrab Malik says
Dear good knowledge you spread thanks for this.
But I have a problem some stranger change my whatsapp profile picture with a ugly picture and I am fade up to solve this problem please give me a way to stop this.
Thanks in advance😊
Akshay says
Really easy to do that. Thanks Prakash for figuring out such an easy method.
Naveen says
Its not really working especially after recovering the cache files using cleanmaster or any other app like that.? If u have any other way to do it then pls put it up.
Naveen says
Sorry…i meant after deleting..
Barkat says
Profile pictures folder images was showing Before backup.
After backup Its show only media, backup, n database folder.
Asus zenphone 5.
Akhil says
How to do this for iPhone?
Ravi saini says
Is it apply when we dont save the number?