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My thinking on this news is that we are missing something. I feel they really mean that you will lose any old chats previously backed up on Google Drive but not updated recently (within the last 1 year span) will be deleted by Google. So unless you have done another manual backup recently, you are losing the old ones if you move to a different phone and want to restore from Google Drive.
Many outlets have reported this including Telecom Talk and BGR but I feel they are all basing it on some agency story. I checked whatsapp.com blog and there is no mention of this there. There is no official tweet too so I do not know their source.
WhatsApp to delete all chats not backed up to Google Drive: What you need to know
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WhatsApp will starting deleting all chat histories on Android, which have not been backed up to Google Drive.
By: Tech Desk | Published: November 13, 2018 10:43:50 am
WhatsApp will starting deleting all chat histories on Android, which have not been backed up to Google Drive. In August, WhatsApp and Google Drive had announced a partnership whereby all chats from the messaging account, which were backed to the Drive account would not count against the user’s data storage.
Google Drive will let users backup up their WhatsApp data to the account for free. By default, Google gives around 15GB of free storage to users.
However, the terms and conditions also meant that users needed to manually backup their WhatsApp data on Google Drive before November 12. This was to avoid loss of any WhatsApp data that is already on your Drive. In order, to refresh existing backups, users had to back up before October 30, 2018. This applied even to those relying on automatic backups for their WhatsApp data.
Now that the November 12 deadline is over, users need to make sure that their WhatsApp data has been saved. Anyone who has not done a manual backup, might find that their old chats and data are not saved to their Google Drive account. This could also result in loss of chat histories.
WhatsApp had also warned that any backups which had not been updated in over a year would be automatically removed from the Google Drive storage. This means if you have not backed up the account in the past one year, you are likely to find all the chat histories are gone.
Read more here - WhatsApp to delete all chats not backed up to Google Drive: What you need to know
Many outlets have reported this including Telecom Talk and BGR but I feel they are all basing it on some agency story. I checked whatsapp.com blog and there is no mention of this there. There is no official tweet too so I do not know their source.
WhatsApp to delete all chats not backed up to Google Drive: What you need to know
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WhatsApp will starting deleting all chat histories on Android, which have not been backed up to Google Drive.
By: Tech Desk | Published: November 13, 2018 10:43:50 am
WhatsApp will starting deleting all chat histories on Android, which have not been backed up to Google Drive. In August, WhatsApp and Google Drive had announced a partnership whereby all chats from the messaging account, which were backed to the Drive account would not count against the user’s data storage.
Google Drive will let users backup up their WhatsApp data to the account for free. By default, Google gives around 15GB of free storage to users.
However, the terms and conditions also meant that users needed to manually backup their WhatsApp data on Google Drive before November 12. This was to avoid loss of any WhatsApp data that is already on your Drive. In order, to refresh existing backups, users had to back up before October 30, 2018. This applied even to those relying on automatic backups for their WhatsApp data.
Now that the November 12 deadline is over, users need to make sure that their WhatsApp data has been saved. Anyone who has not done a manual backup, might find that their old chats and data are not saved to their Google Drive account. This could also result in loss of chat histories.
WhatsApp had also warned that any backups which had not been updated in over a year would be automatically removed from the Google Drive storage. This means if you have not backed up the account in the past one year, you are likely to find all the chat histories are gone.
Read more here - WhatsApp to delete all chats not backed up to Google Drive: What you need to know
