WhatsApp ‘status’ gets new update! | Your chats, photos, videos to be ‘DELETED’ | Do this to save them
WhatsApp ‘status’ gets a new update, will change the way the chat app backs up your content. The Facebook-owned app will also start deleting some of your messages, photos, and videos from 12 November 2018. So far, the chat app has backed up users content on popular cloud storage service Google Drive.
In an email to users, Google said, “Due to a new agreement between WhatsApp and Google, WhatsApp backup messages, photos, and videos of the country will still remain on Google Drive but WhatsApp backups will no longer count towards the Google Drive storage quota. Furthermore, WhatsApp backups that haven’t been updated in more than one year will be automatically removed from Google Drive storage.
What to do to save them?
To save the backup content, you must manually back up your WhatsApp data before 12 November 2018.
- Activate the Google account on your phone and install Google Drive.
- It’s advisable to switch on to Wi-Fi to save valuable data while saving all valuable data to cloud as backup files can vary in size and consume mobile data, causing additional charges.
- Open WhatsApp and go to menu, then to settings, then chats, then click on chat back up.
- If you select back up, everything on the phone would be automatically backed up to the Google Drive.