WhatsApp has confirmed that once your media and messages leave the app, they are no longer protected by its end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n
This includes Google Drive backups for Android, which the company recently announced<\/a><\/strong> would no longer count towards your storage limits.<\/p>\n It gives a similar warning for iCloud backups on iPhones.<\/p>\n The warnings are posted in WhatsApp’s support pages for Google Drive<\/a><\/strong> and iPhone<\/a><\/strong> backups.<\/p>\n In addition to warning users that its encryption functionality doesn’t extend to cloud backups, WhatsApp said that backups in Google Drive that haven’t been updated for more than a year will be automatically removed from your Google Drive Storage.<\/p>\n “To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend you manually back up your WhatsApp data before November 12, 2018,” said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has warned that the free backups are no longer protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[397,10232,607,1125,2594],"class_list":["post-273635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-android","tag-google-drive","tag-icloud","tag-iphone","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273759,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273635\/revisions\/273759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How much it costs to make a WhatsApp video call<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"