WhatsApp gives users a period of 30 days, after which important data will be deleted

Many WhatsApp users need to be careful. If the backup is very large, those affected will only have a few days to delete data elsewhere.

Munich – An important change in WhatsAppOnly recently, WhatsApp introduced a feature reminiscent of Facebook. Many users now receive a notification on their smartphones that they must take action within 30 days. Otherwise, chats and saved data may be lost.

WhatsApp backups now consume Google storage space

like a gate chip.de Reportedly, only Android users are affected by this change. Previously, they could easily back up WhatsApp backups via their Google account, regardless of the size of the backup, as the available Google Drive storage space was not compensated for it.

However, this will soon change. From now on, WhatsApp backup will also use Google Drive storage space, according to the portal. Users who have exceeded their capacity limit as a result of this change will receive a notification. This informs that users have only 30 days to back up their chats and data elsewhere. After this period, unnecessary data will be deleted automatically and in chronological order. Other WhatsApp surprised its users by reorganizing contacts.

This means that WhatsApp backups can still be saved via Google.

Those who have not previously backed up their chat histories to their Google account will not be affected by this change. However, users can still save their WhatsApp chat history to cloud storage. according to notice The following steps are required for WhatsApp:

• Activate Google account on the device
• Google Play service is installed
• Enough storage space on your smartphone
• Enough storage space on your Google account
• More options > Settings > Chats
• Chat Backup > Google Account Backup

Google has one notice It announced that each account has 15 GB of Google Drive cloud storage space. With the so-called “Google One” subscription, the capacity can be expanded to at least 100 GB. For the basic subscription, users pay €1.99 per month to get the corresponding storage space. For the premium version, users pay €9.99 per month and get 2 TB of storage. (BK)