WhatsApp starts saving copies of messages in Google Drive
For some reason WhatsApp seems to have stepped on the news acceleratorand changes. Yesterday we heard about your progress on new features that are yet to come to the platform Android , now another of the rumors most awaited by users is confirmed. Thus WhatsApp has begun to allow uploading backup copies directly to the Google Drive storage service A success to ensure that the user's messages and photos are not lost even if he changes his mobile or loses it.
Now it seems that WhatsApp is launching this new feature with dropper A common technique to prevent any type of failure or error from spreading to the entire user community. And not only that, at the moment it is only appearing in the test version that can be downloaded from the WhatsApp web page for the platform Android All of this in a phased and controlled manner. Enough so that several details of this expected function have already transcended.
Once you have installed the beta or trial version and, if you are lucky enough to be one of the users for whom this function has been activated, just access the Chat Settings, within the menuSettings of the application itself.Here it is possible to access a new section called Backup copy, where the user can click on a warning alerting you to grant permissions to WhatsApp to link with the Google Drive serviceDoing so will set this service as the destination for saving the backup files.
But what does all this mean? Very easy. The backup copies are the copies of the messages and photos that the user receives and shares through the chats Some copies that were previously stored in the internal memory of the mobile Thus, when you change your terminal, it is necessary to carry out a process torestore these messages and contents in the new mobile.However, if theterminal was lost or stolen, all contents were lost with it.
In this way, the user links WhatsApp with their Google Drive account to reserve a space in this cloud or storage service where to save your backups. With this, it is only necessary to install WhatsApp in a new terminal and use the regular user account to restore chats All this without having to worry about saving that file outside the terminal. And the fact is that the process continues to be automatic, synchronizing at 04:00 each morningwithout the user having to do anything else.
At the moment it seems that we will have to wait a little longer for WhatsApp to activate this function for all users. In addition, we will also have to wait for an update to be released in Google Play Store so that all users can get hold of this new function.Those who do not want to wait can try their luck downloading, at their own risk, the latest version of WhatsApp from the application's web page.
