WhatsApp is looking forward to bringing a simpler way for its more than 700 million users to save their chat history. The popular mobile messaging app could bring Google Drive integration to restore you conversations.
Users chats gets wiped out when they uninstalls WhatsApp, change their devices or performs factory reset. Currently, WhatsApp allows users to backup and restore their chats but is it a long and complicated process as WhatsApp chat files have to be manually backed up to a computer and then copied onto the new device to restore them. It is said that users can also backup images along with chat history but not video files as they can be pretty large in size. Hence, the addition of Google Drive will certainly be a welcome move for more that.
The possibility of a Google Drive integration was revealed in an email WhatsApp sent to a member of their translation group, and according to the email, it asked the group member to translate certain instructions, some of which made reference to backing up their chat history and media to cloud service.
This should make it easier for customers who switch phones more often and want to get access to all their chat history and data from the old device. There is no particular timeline of the launch of this feature but we sure hope that the update will be launched soon.