Backup WhatsApp on Google Drive and your chats are safe, but many users of the messaging up do not know this simple procedure.
How to backup WhatsApp on Google Drive is a must-know procedure to every WhatsApp user, including you if you do not want to lose all the essential chat messages.
Backup WhatsApp on Google Drive Benefits
Your vital chats and data can be easily retrieved later onto the same or another phone.
Another key reason why you need to back up is that, if the data on your phone takes up a lot of space, your phone becomes slow and this delayed the functions you intend to perform with your phone.
Backing up WhatsApp on Google Drive gives you an opportunity to format or reset the phone to factory settings.
Set up Google Drive Whatsapp backups
Open the WhatsApp application and look for the setting option.
In that settings, section, look for and click on Chats
Click on Chat backup > Back up to Google Drive, thus your Gmail.
Select a backup frequency other than Never.
Select the Google account you’d like to back up your chat history to.
Tap Back up over to choose the network you want to use for backups.
Wait patiently for the backup to complete.
Before formatting or resetting the phone to factory settings, make sure you know your email and password be able to restore the chats from google drive.
Now never lose your chats, always Backup WhatsApp before anything happens.
This advice is important because very often we ignore or cancel the request by the app to back up our data.
A Whatsapp backup today, even if it delays your next chat, will save that precious information and memories on your phone that you do not want to lose.
We have friends who have wished they backed up their Whatsapp, contacts, and others on their google drive.
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