The world’s most popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has confirmed that it will be deleting chats and media from users who have not backed up their stored data to Google Drive. These users will lose their chat histories, so if you haven’t done this already do so now by following these steps.
Anti-Privacy Move?
One of the criticisms of this move is that WhatsApp will not offer end-to-end encryption for chats backed up to Google Drive, since the chats are now exported to Google’s servers.
Users can update their copy and configure its update frequency as long as they have a personal account on Google. In order to use Google Drive backup, you need to have:
As is expected, the first time you backup will take a while. But every time you backup after that, it should be a quick affair.
