WhatsApp could let you back up your chats on its own encrypted cloud storage | Infinium-tech

The ability to back up your WhatsApp chats to the cloud has been around for almost a decade. Android users can back up their chats to Google Drive, while iPhone users can back up their chats to iCloud. But WhatsApp may give you the option to back up your chats to its cloud storage in the future.

According to a report by WABetaInfoWhatsApp is developing a feature that will let users back up their WhatsApp chats on their cloud storage, which will be encrypted.

The image below shows that Android users will have two options for cloud backup of their chats – Google Drive and WhatsApp’s own cloud storage, which offers 2GB of free storage.

WhatsApp users who back up their chats on WhatsApp’s encrypted cloud storage will have the option to secure their backups with a passkey, password, or a 64-digit encryption key. Although enabling encryption to back up WhatsApp data to Google Drive or iCloud is currently optional, WABetaInfo The report states that “if users choose to upload their backups to WhatsApp’s servers, encryption will be mandatory for all stored data.”

moreover, WABetaInfo The claim is that WhatsApp is planning to offer a 50GB cloud storage plan at a price of around $0.99. This is probably a monthly fee, but it can be useful, as 2GB of storage may not be enough for many users.

WhatsApp is still working on its encrypted cloud storage feature, and it’s unclear when it will actually be publicly available to all users. But once its development is nearing completion, you can expect it to be available on the beta channel for beta users.

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