WhatsApp will support backing up of conversations & media to Google Drive

Source: Google Drive Blog: Keep your memories safe with WhatsApp and Google Drive

Whether it’s recounting a story, watching a video, or enjoying photos with family and friends, our memories help us reconnect with what’s really important. And every month, nearly a billion people use WhatsApp to do just that.

Of course: you don’t want your memories stuck on your phone. (What if something happens?!) So starting today, WhatsApp for Android lets you create a private backup of your chat history, voice messages, photos, and videos in Google Drive. And once you do, you can restore everything on a new device with just a couple taps.

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The new backup feature is rolling out over the next few months, so keep an eye on your WhatsApp settings to see if it’s available. In the meantime, please visit our Help Center if you have questions about today’s update. And check out our developer site if you’d like to integrate your app with Google Drive.

I am glad to finally know that WhatsApp realised something could happen to our phones thereby rendering the WhatsApp history deleted or corrupt.
Wish this feature come to Windows phones too, although that wouldn't help the poor Lumia 520 that my dad has gotten sick of, due to instability of WhatsApp on the phone.

oh. Nice.

Google + Facebook = Weird combination.

Fantastic..no more hassles with copying the folders here and there..straight to drive..nice!!

Flash said:
Google + Facebook = Weird combination.

That's why I was expecting Dropbox backup first, but I guess biggies are joining hands to thwart smaller ones.

Reason behind not choosing Dropbox could be DB got compromised twice.. last year and before.

Vyom said:
That's why I was expecting Dropbox backup first, but I guess biggies are joining hands to thwart smaller ones.

swatkats said:
Reason behind not choosing Dropbox could be DB got compromised twice.. last year and before.

If i'm right, FB already has its own cloud storage which it uses for storing FB contents. Why not save it there?

probably because easier API integration..

Vyom said:
That's why I was expecting Dropbox backup first, but I guess biggies are joining hands to thwart smaller ones.

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
probably because easier API integration..

Pretty much this. Every Android user already has a Google Account already(almost) & it'll save people a lot of trouble if they don't have Dropbox.

R

Very good feature to have

K

This news is useless as long as they dont support multiple logins,proper optimised Whatsapp clients on all platforms instead of half baked ones everywhere AND cross platform backups
and people still feel Whatsapp is superior to BBM(We are only forced to use whatsapp because very few use other messengers these days)
BBM may have been late to adapt to cross platform but it is certainly a better experience except for the lack of users these days

kkn13 said:
This news is useless as long as they dont support multiple logins,proper optimised Whatsapp clients on all platforms instead of half baked ones everywhere AND cross platform backups
and people still feel Whatsapp is superior to BBM(We are only forced to use whatsapp because very few use other messengers these days)
BBM may have been late to adapt to cross platform but it is certainly a better experience except for the lack of users these days

One step at a time

kkn13 said:
This news is useless as long as they dont support multiple logins,proper optimised Whatsapp clients on all platforms instead of half baked ones everywhere AND cross platform backups
and people still feel Whatsapp is superior to BBM(We are only forced to use whatsapp because very few use other messengers these days)
BBM may have been late to adapt to cross platform but it is certainly a better experience except for the lack of users these days

THIS!
A cross platform please. Else shutdown and let telegram win.

K

Re: WhatsApp will support backing up of conversations & media to Google Drive

Vyom said:
THIS!
A cross platform please. Else shutdown and let telegram win.

yeah totally forgot to mention telegram too !!
Telegram and BBM are by far the best messengers yet !!
except for no of users sadly

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tkin said:
One step at a time

thats whats being said for years

Ive been using it since the early betas during the symbian days
was promising then and till it went cross platform but it suddenly stagnated and has fairly inconsistent performance and updates of late
hopefully theyll be forced to release a decent update for all platforms now since all 4 major platforms have gotten their major updates this month

Damn it, this settings backup everything, Google drive has limited space.

tkin said:
Damn it, this settings backup everything, Google drive has limited space.

In the screenshots we can see the video has a separate option, I guess further updates might let us leave photos out as well.