It seems very likely that Google and WhatsApp will introduce an upper limit of 2000GB of free storage, and after that, it will start counting against your available storage on Google Drive.
It doesn’t look like all of your WhatsApp backups will count against your available storage.
Before this agreement, WhatsApp backups did count against your Google Drive storage quota.įollowing the above trend of Google starting to limit the data storage options offered to users, WhatsApp may be next. This is how users were able to enjoy backing up their WhatsApp data without ever getting a low storage notification. In 2018 WhatsApp negotiated a deal with Google that allowed unlimited backup storage. You may want to read: Best Google Drive applications for Chrome Is a New WhatsApp Storage Limit Looming? If this wasn’t restrictive enough, there are reports that Google will also be introducing a storage limit for WhatsApp backup to Google Drive.
This storage is shared between Google Drive, Google Photos, and Gmail. The first change came with scaling down the available storage size to 15GB. Google started limiting the storage options for Google Account users earlier this year. This is an opt-in feature, and users will have to enable it from within their WhatsApp settings to start using it. This is a major bonus in protecting users’ privacy and data. Once this privacy feature is enabled, it means that WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, and Apple can't read your backups. This feature was very lacking and in high demand. Last week, WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption to backups. It seems a storage limitation of backups is in the future.Īs we get some good news about WhatsApp, it’s not long before the bad news follows. It seems there is more bad news for the Facebook-owned messaging app. At the moment, WhatsApp backups won’t count against your Google Drive storage.
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