Your WhatsApp chat backups on Android are currently free. However, it will soon start to take away from your Google storage.
  • Magiccupcake@startrek.websiteEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    But it’s text, an entire persons message history can be stored very cheaply.

    A million words is only 2MB.

    Most people are expexted to text less than 10 millions words in a lifetime.

    An entire persons lifetime message history is only 20MB, that’s trivial to store.

    If they want to charge to save media, thats fine, but text backups should be free

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Does it have an option to back up only text, without images and other media?

      I don’t use WhatsApp, but my Signal backup is several gigs because of images and videos.

      • zeroxxx@lemmy.my.idEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        In WhatsApp it is possible to back up only text and images, without video. Not modular enough though

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve just checked. In the UK at least, you can choose to exclude videos from the backup, but not images.

    • zeroxxx@lemmy.my.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      WhatsApp bundles them together, that is the problem. Google does not know how to differentiate it.