Google to offer free limited plan for WhatsApp backups soon: All you need to know

WhatsApp latest update: The US-based tech giant Google is planning to offer a free limited plan in the future for WhatsApp backups. This is a very good advantage for Android users since Apple doesn’t offer an unlimited plan to store backups on iCloud.

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"Google will offer a limited plan for WhatsApp backups! WhatsApp backups will count against your Google Drive storage quota again, but Google is planning to offer a free limited plan in the future," WABeta Info, a website that tracks WhatsApp wrote on Twitter.

WABeta Info report has also revealed that both Google and WhatsApp are planning to introduce changes for backups (“Google Drive backup changing”), notifications about when Google Drive is almost full, when the limit is reached, and information about when the changes take effect.

"This is not so surprising: Google stopped offering unlimited storage for Google Photos the last yea., Google will still offer a certain quota to store WhatsApp backups for free, but it will be a limited plan, and information about the new storage plan is unknown right now." WABeta Info reported. Google is planning to stop offering the unlimited plan to store our WhatsApp backup.

In related news, WhatsApp is planning to release host of new features that are aimed at improving the users’ experience this year. The messaging application is now working on a new feature that allows group admins on WhatsApp to delete messages for other members of the group as well.

Recently, WhatsApp also rolled out another useful feature for the web/desktop client -- the ability to pause and resume voice recordings. According to the report, there is a new pause button (in the previous version, there was a stop icon) that allows you to pause the voice note. In this situation, you can listen to the voice note before sending it, you can delete the voice note or you can resume the recording.