WhatsApp backups will no longer count towards Google Drive

What is a deal? Will it store backups on their own servers?
 
Great.
My 100mb backups aren't eating into my 30GB drive storage.
 
My wife's WhatsApp data size is about 3GB. And that's with the settings to only download pics/vids when she clicks on them. She bloody refuses to clean up those juvenile groups conversation she is a member of - it's like a WhatsApp every message every min during daylight hours.
 
No if you read the story on whatsapp from the date they change the whatsapp backups will not count towards you google drive space so if you space is 5gig and your whatsapp backup is 3gig you will now have your full 5gig plus 3gig but only stipulation is if a whatsapp account has not been used in more than a year that backup will be removed from the google servers.
 
So what is the deal behind it, Google allowed to reads the WhatsApps now in turn WhatsApp saves on storage costs?
 
It would be useful if you could backup to Google Drive on iOS.

Otherwise it’s a bit pointless really.
 
SauRoNZA said:
It would be useful if you could backup to Google Drive on iOS.

Otherwise it’s a bit pointless really.
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Pointless for iPhone users perhaps, but pretty smart from WhatsApp's business point of view to further entrench themselves as the dominant IM app. Android has a much bigger market footprint than iOS (for reasons which can and have been debated elsewhere).

Maybe this feature will come to iOS too, but it makes sense to start with Google / Android.
 
newby_investor said:
Pointless for iPhone users perhaps, but pretty smart from WhatsApp's business point of view to further entrench themselves as the dominant IM app. Android has a much bigger market footprint than iOS (for reasons which can and have been debated elsewhere).

Maybe this feature will come to iOS too, but it makes sense to start with Google / Android.
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Still remains pointless to anyone who would never switch to Android.

And useless to anyone jumping to iOS for the first time.

No reason things can't be done in parallel across platforms.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Still remains pointless to anyone who would never switch to Android.

And useless to anyone jumping to iOS for the first time.

No reason things can't be done in parallel across platforms.
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That's true, yes. It is annoying.

But my point remains - I suspect that iOS users are a small fraction of WhatsApp's user base, and people who want to switch from iOS to Android or vice versa are quite rare.

Following the 80/20 rule, it makes sense for WhatsApp to look after the Android users first. They're in it for the business, not really for your wellbeing or convenience unfortunately.
 
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