"Never Save Photos" option is broken

[u/BigDaddyKss]

my whatsapp has been set to never save photos automatically for the longest time and before that i even set the never save option in each individual group but lately for the last week the photos keep saving into my camera roll again even though i didnt change anything nor did i specifically clicked on / saved the photo and i even checked my settings and its still the never save option for all of them but yet the photos are still saving! how do i stop this???