WhatsApp Media Hub Feature Will Help You Find All The Shared Content at One Spot

TL;DR:

• WhatsApp Web is getting a new "Chat Media Hub."
• It centralizes all shared photos, videos, GIFs, documents, and links.
• Users can easily search, sort, multi-select, and manage media.
• This feature is not yet available but is expected in a future update.

WhatsApp is working on a major upgrade for its web client—one that promises to save users from endlessly scrolling through chats to find that one image, video, or link they vaguely remember. The company is developing a centralized media hub feature that will pull all shared content, such as photos, videos, GIFs, documents, and links, into one streamlined interface. This isn't just about convenience but fixing one of the web client’s biggest pain points.

According to WABetaInfo, the new "Chat Media Hub" will live in the sidebar of WhatsApp Web and act as a single destination for all media exchanged across chats. Unlike the current setup, where users must dive into individual conversations to dig up files, this feature will surface everything in one place, complete with file sizes, dates, and sender names for documents and links.

Image via: WABetaInfo

It also supports multi-select functionality, allowing users to delete, forward, or download batches of content with one click. Sorting options will help users organize results by recency, file size, or date.

There’s also caption-based search, which means you’ll be able to find media using keywords tied to their captions—a huge upgrade for content-heavy accounts.

What sets this apart is its scope: this isn’t just for group or community chats. The hub will index shared content from every conversation across your account.

It's the kind of quality-of-life improvement web users have been waiting for, especially in professional settings where WhatsApp is used to exchange important files daily.

WABetaInfo notes:

“WhatsApp is currently developing a chat media hub feature for the web client, which is expected to be released in a future update.”

As of now, it’s not available in beta for Android or iOS (iPhone), so even those on the bleeding edge won’t see it yet.

This media hub feature by WhatsApp could redefine how users manage digital clutter on WhatsApp Web. Whether you're hunting for a work doc, a meme from two months ago, or trying to clean out files that are hogging space, everything will finally be in one place.