New Delhi. Meta has recently released several upgrades for its popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. Along with this, the company also made many changes in this app. One of the major changes was regarding shifting to chat backup storage. The company had announced in its updated terms and conditions last year that from the beginning of January 2024, WhatsApp’s dedicated space will no longer be used for chat backup. Whereas, Google Drive will be used in its place and now when the first month of the new year is about to end, WhatsApp has transitioned to Google Drive for chats and media backup. That is, now you will have to keep the storage free or pay for additional storage.
Now whether you use the paid or free plan of Google Cloud Service, WhatsApp chat backups will be saved in your Google Drive. This will be the same account which is linked to your WhatsApp Gmail account. This means that apart from your Google Photos and Gmail, WhatsApp will also start filling up the storage of your Google Drive.
These are the options
However, if you haven’t paid for a Google Drive account and want to use WhatsApp beta and want chat backups to use your entire Google Drive storage space, you can choose not to back up chats to the cloud service. Instead, you can use the in-built WhatsApp chat transfer tool when switching to a new phone.
However, for this chat transfer, both the old and the new phone will need to be on the same Wi-Fi network. Also, an active internet connection will not be required for this. The alternate way is that you can buy additional storage space on Google Drive by subscribing to a Google One plan.
Another option is that you can skip images and videos while backing up WhatsApp chat history. Because, these increase the size of your backup. If you want, you can check that WhatsApp has started the backup process in Google Drive. You can check this by going to WhatsApp Settings > Chats > Backup.
For your information, let us tell you that iPhone has been depending on iCloud storage for chat backup for a long time and now the same rule is being applied for Android as well.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : January 30, 2024, 20:12 IST