Google will limit the size of WhatsApp backups on Android
Miscellaneous / / February 01, 2022
Farewell, last year's videos and collection of memes.
Now on Android smartphones, you can store WhatsApp backups of any size on Google Drive - chats with thousands of videos, gifs, photos. But the authors of WABetaInfo discovered changes in the policy of working with backups in the assembly of the beta version of the messenger.
In 2018, Google and WhatsApp entered into an agreement. As part of it, the size of the messenger backup is not taken into account when calculating the quota for Google Drive, even if the user has a free account with 15 GB of space.
After the introduction of limits, backups can take up a significant part of the space on Google Drive. If a user uses up almost all available cloud space, Google will send a notification and offer a paid Google One subscription to increase the quota.
You can continue to use the services for free if delete big videos and other files from WhatsApp chats. The alternative is to save backups locally in the smartphone's memory, or start a new Google mail and link it to WhatsApp to take advantage of another 15 GB of free cloud space.
By the way, Apple does not provide unlimited storage options for WhatsApp backups in iCloud. Perhaps in the future the company will reconsider this decision.
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