WhatsApp s unarguably one of the most popular social messaging apps in the world. People across age groups and time zones use the Facebook owned social messaging app to chat with their family and friends and share their special moments in the form of text messages, videos, photos and Status updates. But many-a-times it so happens those moments stand a chance of getting lost. Sometimes because you are upgrading to a new smartphone and other times owing to a malware attack (we see a lot of them these days).
The end result is that you have to format your old phone, which usually erases all traces of the crazy, happy and memorable moments that you had with your friends and family. It also wipes clean the angry chats that you had with your best friend or your partner that you might want to save for a conversation later.
Google Drive gives you 17GB of space to store your data in its cloud for free. But that that does not include your WhatsApp backup. "WhatsApp backups no longer count towards the Google Drive storage quota," WhatsApp wrote in its FAQ page for Restoring your chat history. Meaning, you don't have to worry about exhausting your Google Drive space.
