Whatsapp backups on google drive will no longer count for your storage

The technology giant Google (a company that is part of the Alphabet matrix) announces an agreement that soon WhatsApp backups will no longer count in users' cloud storage.

WhatsApp will leave more free space on Google Drive

More and more telecommunications companies are excluding, either natively, or as additional options in the rates of their data plans, the consumption from browsing through certain services, whether they are streaming video such as Netflix, whether it's streaming music like Spotify, or instant messaging services like WhatsApp, thus allowing users to further stretch their data packets. Now Google joins this trend and does so by announcing that WhatsApp backups on Google Drive will no longer count "for the storage quota" that users have available.

Through an email that the American company has begun to send to users, Google announces this good news for those who use Google Drive as a means of backing up their smartphones:

“ Thanks to a new agreement between WhatsApp and Google, WhatsApp backups will no longer count for the purposes of the storage quota on Google Drive. However, WhatsApp backups that have not been updated in over a year will be automatically removed from Google Drive. "

The entry into force of this new measure will not be immediate. In this email the company indicates that "it will come into force for all users on November 12, 2018 ". Despite this, a gradual implementation is deduced as Google expresses that "it is possible that some may enjoy this advantage before that date". To avoid losing your backups, it is recommended to make a manual backup of WhatsApp before the mentioned date.