You only have 30 days left to save your conversations on a medium other than Google Drive.
WhatsApp regularly makes drastic decisions for its application. In addition to regularly updating its features, the instant messaging managed by Meta sometimes annoys its users with its rather restrictive choices.
The company’s latest statements about conversations stored in WhatsApp are one of these radical decisions that provoke a reaction. Historically, the application allowed you to store your various discussions on the online servers of the Google Drive solution. This software, which is very practical, allows registered users to store and exchange files and folders that they wish to keep online.
However, WhatsApp is starting to alert its users that conversations saved this way could soon be lost. WhatsApp is now sending several of its users a notification explaining to them that they only have 30 days to migrate their conversations located on Google Drive if they do not want to see them disappear.
This decision is explained by the fact that Google Drive will now only allow 15 GB of free storage space to store WhatsApp chats. If you are not used to or do not want to save your conversations, you will not be affected. Similarly, if the backup of your WhatsApp conversations does not exceed 15 GB, they will not disappear.
For others, the 15 GB offered may not be enough. Multiple conversations filled with heavy files like HD videos or large documents can quickly fill up the space offered by Google Drive. You will therefore have to store your conversations on another platform.
The simplest solution is to keep your WhatsApp conversations on an external hard drive. To do this, go to one of your discussions and select the three small dots at the top right. By selecting the “more” option, you will find the “export discussion” function which allows you to download your data in order to store it on the medium of your choice.
The other option is more expensive, but also easier. You just need to increase the data volume limit of your Google Drive. While WhatsApp’s new offer will give you up to 15 GB to store your conversations, it is always possible to increase this offer up to 100 GB, 200 GB or even 2 TB depending on your needs.