This year 2024 will be the year of changes for users of WhatsApp, one of the most used social networks. And Google announced a change in backup copies (photos, documents, videos, etc.), which will affect the pockets of many people.
The space occupied by WhatsApp backups will be deducted from the 15GB of free storage in your Google account. So there will be a fee to have more space, but there are some alternatives to avoid this cost.
Computer Hoy in a report Since 2018 WhatsApp and Google share messages, videos, photos, documents, stickers, memes, etc. Agreed that files can be saved to Drive. However, this will change as of the middle of this year.
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The simplest solution would be to pay a subscription to Google One, which offers 100GB of space on its cheapest plan of €1.99 per month. Although it is a more practical and free method.
According to the report, the first thing to do is to review your WhatsApp conversations and delete messages, photos and files that you no longer need. From this perspective, photos are important as they usually take up more space. It is also important to determine which ones are considered relevant and especially to delete unnecessary memes and files.
Source: Exame
