Google has commenced offering of free backups for WhatsApp
users with immediate effect, reports ITREALMS.
This is coming as the Google Drive storage quota for such
WhatsApp backups no longer counts against anyone using Google mail (gmail).
ITREALMS gathered
that this follows latest agreement between WhatsApp and Google, however, any “WhatsApp
backups that have not been updated in more than a year will automatically be
removed from storage.”
This policy, ITREALMS
equally gathered, will go into effect for all users on November 12, 2018 though
some users may see the quota benefits earlier.
“To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend that people
manually back up WhatsApp before November 12, 2018,” Google Drive Team said.
In addition, they recommended some actions including that account
users confirm that their current WhatsApp client is backed up and if they wish
to refresh any existing backups, “please manually back up your WhatsApp client
before October 30, 2018.”
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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