WhatsApp backups on Android will soon start counting Google Account cloud storage limit

Do you use WhatsApp on an Android smartphone? If yes, then pay attention! A big feature that you get on WhatsApp is going to end. The WhatsApp chats and media files that you backup will now be counted in the cloud storage limit of your Google account. This means that the 15GB cloud storage that Google gives free to each of its users will now also include the backup of WhatsApp chats and media. After this, if users need cloud storage, they will have to buy storage by paying money.

Google made this change Announcement The company has said that WhatsApp chat and media backup on Android will count towards the cloud storage limit of the user’s Google account from December 2023. Keep in mind that till now Google used to offer free storage to Android smartphone users to backup WhatsApp chats. This storage was extra from the 15 GB storage available with the Google account.

The new change will harm those users whose cloud storage limit has reached close to 15 GB and they have to create a large backup of WhatsApp chats and media files. This change is starting from December 2023 for WhatsApp beta users. This change will be implemented for all Android users in the first half of 2024.

Google says that the free storage it provides to Android users is much more than the free storage provided by Apple in iCloud. In the future, if Android users want to make a backup of WhatsApp chats and the storage on the cloud is exhausted, then the users will have to free up the storage first. The good thing is that Google offers a special tool to its users to delete large size files at once. Those Google users who have a subscription to Google Workspace will not be affected by this decision.