WhatsApp
has been one of the top apps for chatting and sharing content such as pictures,
songs and videos by a majority of the world. It has lots of competition from
others but WhatsApp
has been doing good lately by constantly bringing in features that make a
whole lot of sense to its power users. Recent ones have been the voice
call activation, the highly welcome material design UI update. A
recent update 2.12.45 to be precise brings in a very handy feature that
lets you back up your WhatsApp chat and data onto the cloud through Google
Drive!
Most
of us have moved so much to WhatsApp for conversations be it personal, official
teams, old school folks and many crazy groups! So crazy that you can catch
people chatting away in between a movie or a bath as well, as crazy as it
sounds. And we would love to store up the conversations for the sake of
memories. Until now we would either copy the conversations and data into
another storage or email it to ourselves. While one could do it, there is
still the hassle of manually backing up and restoring again when getting back
to WhatsApp on a new phone or after a reset.
Now
with this feature coming up, it is so seamless as on Android phones we login via our Google
Account and most of the phones comes pre-loaded with Google Apps. So this will
save your from the hassle of moving your chat backup and data to a new phone.
Lets dive in to the steps as to how you can do it:
What’s
included – The Google Drive WhatsApp backup
includes your conversations encrypted backup file and the entire media
directory except WhatsApp video. The media backup includes your audio,
images, and voice notes.
Backing up WhatsApp to Google
Drive –
2. Head over to Settings > Chat
settings > Chat backup.
3. Under Google Drive settings,
choose the desired ‘Backup frequency’.
4. Then choose the Google account
where you want the backup to be stored. You can also choose to backup either
over Wi-Fi or over Wi-Fi and cellular.
5. WhatsApp daily backup occurs
at 4:00AM but you can manually initiate the backup using the ‘Back up now‘
option.
6. Now just wait for the backup to prepare
and upload to GDrive in background.
The
backup however can’t be accessed from Google Drive as the app data is hidden.
You can check the backup in your Drive by going to Settings > Manage Apps.
From there you can disconnect the WhatsApp app from drive and delete hidden app
data too.
Restoring WhatsApp Data from Google
Drive –
It’s a
magic to restore WhatsApp backup from GDrive as one doesn’t needs to
do anything. Your device just needs to be connected to the Google account that
you linked to your WhatsApp earlier. After installing WhatsApp, it’ll look for
local and Google Drive backups and give the Restore option. Note:
If you skip restore then you won’t be able to restore either of the backup
later.
On
selecting Restore, WhatsApp will instantly restore all your
messages whereas the media files from GDrive gets downloaded and
restored in background, such that you can access WhatsApp while restore
happens. One can view the restore status either from notifications panel or
Chat backup menu.
Hope you find this article
useful!
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