Yeah whatsapp sucks, but I am tired of trying to convincing my family to switch.
Supposedly because of the EU, they are working on interoperability with other apps.
Just waiting to delete that spyware app.
Never saw auch a clickbait title.
the backups will count towards your 15gb free quota
Most people do not have a full google drive. This only includes a small portion of the whatsapp users who use google backups.
I have seen people having WhatsApp Backup of upwards of 5-8 GB
Hope that sh*t goes bankrupt once and for all.
There’s also an option to transfer your chats to another device without backing up to Google drive, but it obviously works only as a transfer tool not as a backup.
High time WhatsApp allowed backup to other cloud solutions like Dropbox/OndeDrive/others
Nothing Is for sale, everything is cloud based subscription, dlc’s, and micro transactions. And you’re also the product.
Why are people saying local backups are gone?
It does have local backup but I couldn’t find how to restore from local backup.
How do you make a local one?
The Android app has an option in settings, chats, and chat backup. I don’t see how to make it take a local backup but apparently it has one already recently.
Local chat backups on signal are soo convenient and to the point.
WhatsApp chat backups on Google Drive will no longer be free and will contribute to your Google account storage usage.The new policy is already in effect for WhatsApp beta users and will be rolled out to regular users in the near future. WhatsApp backups will count against your Google account storage limit, which includes the free 15 GB of storage provided with every Google account. Users will receive a WhatsApp notification or email from Google approximately one month before their backup situation changes. To continue backing up your GB WhatsApp Download chats, you may need to free up space in your Google account by deleting unnecessary files or consider upgrading your storage through a Google One subscription.
