Whatsapp to delete all your backup data; Here’s how you can save it

WhatsApp will start deleting all the chat history, videos and pictures saved on your Android devices, reports Mirror Online.
The message is a part of a new update, which changes the way backed up content works.

WhatsApp uses Google Drive which provides 15GB of storage to everybody by default. The WhatsApp content backed up on Google Drive allows the users to restore it again as and when needed. However, these backups tend to eat up the space allocated to the user.

But now, according to the new agreement between WhatsApp and Google, WhatsApp will no longer count your WhatsApp backups against the Google Drive storage quota. Or we can also say that there will be no restrictions for uploading WhatsApp backups on Google Drive. The backed-up data on Google Drive will include all messages, multimedia, documents and even GIFs.

However, media and messages that you back up would not be protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in Google Drive.

The new agreement will into effect from November 12, 2018 and is applicable only to Android users. For iPhone users, WhatsApp data is backed up on iCloud. This also goes on to say that Google will automatically delete all the WhatsApp backups that haven’t been updated for more than a year. Therefore, to avoid any loss of data, it is recommended that all the Android WhtsApp users backup their data manually.

Here are the steps to tell you how to back up your data manually:

1. Ensure that you have Google Drive setup on your phone.
2. Go to WhatsApp, then go to Menu (3 dots on right top) > Settings > Chats > Chat Backup. Select Back Up

You will automatically see everything getting backed up to Google Drive. Please ensure that you are connected to Wi-fi as WhatsApp is large and may use too much Internet data.