A caveat though is that any WhatsApp backups that haven’t been updated in more than one year will be automatically removed from Google Drive storage. For this reason, if you’re a WhatsApp user, make sure to manually back up their WhatsApp chats before November 12 to avoid the loss of any old backups. One more thing to note is that the media and messages you back up aren’t protected by WhatsApp end-to-end encryption while in Google Drive. From this point on, the encryption shifts to Google, which ought to be secure enough to keep your data safe. Unfortunately, iOS users have nothing much to celebrate at this point in time. WhatsApp for iPhone uses iCloud to store backups, unlike Android users. As such, this new development is not applicable to them. Sorry guys!
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