WhatsApp Will Allow Users to Manage Their Chat Backups

WhatsApp is engaged on a characteristic that may permit customers to handle the dimensions of their chat backups in preparation for a possible Google Drive change.

The replace will come within the type of a brand new “Manage Backup Size” possibility within the Settings, offering detailed controls over what’s and isn’t archived. According to the app’s developer weblog, WABetaInfo, customers might be in a position to instruct the app solely to retailer vital information, comparable to pictures, movies, audio, and paperwork. WhatsApp additionally will present a real-time estimate of how a lot storage is left within the backup.

The weblog submit revealed the rationale for this replace is as a result of Google could take away limitless storage for WhatsApp customers. Currently, customers can backup their WhatsApp chats to Google Drive and never have it rely in opposition to the free 15GB of storage supplied. This is the results of a deal the 2 firms made again in 2018.

WhatsApp postulates that Google will change this deal and have person backups rely on Drive once more. In response, WhatsApp is creating the brand new characteristic to give customers extra choices for backup storage.

In the previous, Google has modified storage choices that had been as soon as limitless, comparable to Google Photos. WhatsApp states that nothing official has been introduced, however the firm will proceed to transfer ahead with this new information administration possibility.

A launch date for the replace was not supplied, however WABetaInfo assures it should maintain customers posted.