Whatsapp status: All the major social media platforms including Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram introduced a ‘Story’ feature in their apps in 2017, to facilitate users easily post pictures or videos. People are using this popular feature on the social media posting more and more things. Whatsapp witnesses more than million stories each day out of which a huge number are in the form of a videos, which people often like to further share but for that they have to download it, and that they find a bit difficult. These stories/videos disappear after a day and hence need to download it! Here's how one can easily download a video from somebody else’s Whatsapp Status, tells a gadetsnow.com report.
 
According to the report, there is a hidden Whatsapp status folder in phone, and when you click on your friend’s Whatsapp story, it gets auto downloaded in your phone in the folder called .statuses, which is kept hidden to prevent you from saving Whatsapp status images to gallery to avoid copyright issues. You just need to unhide the folder to copy Whatsapp status of others, and do not need rooting of Android Marshmallow/Nougat device or jailbreak iOS iDevice. Using this method, you will be able to download Whatsapp status images/photos to gallery. 
 
Further, the report informs us about may apps available today to download the Whatsapp status stories of others easily. These apps are not launched by Whatsapp, but very friendly and save a lot of time in saving these videos. The most popular app is repportedly is the ‘Story Saver for Whatsapp’ which is available on the Google Playstore. After installing it on your phone, you will be able to see that the app has automatically connected itself with your Whatsapp account. You now need just to click on ‘Recent Stories’ and click on the story you wish to download, said the report, adding that now you should click on download on the top, right hand side corner of the app. 
 
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One more precaution you need to take prior to downloading the video, you should take permission from the person who shared it, otherwise, this may land you in a trouble due to copyright issues.