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WhatsApp is one of the most-used applications when it comes to communicating with friends, family, office colleagues, and more. The messaging application is also widely used to convey formal messages to your clients, boss, and more. So, it is important of utter importance that you keep all the chats, photos, videos, and more backed up just in case of an emergency. Thankfully, WhatsApp allows you to easily back up all your messages, photos, documents, and more on cloud storage. One can easily backup WhatsApp chats on Google Drive and iCloud storage. In this article, we are going to tell you how to backup your WhatsApp chat on Android and iPhone by following some simple steps. So, without wasting your time, lets begin.

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WhatsApp allows you to backup all your chats, messages, videos, documents, and more on Android devices. All you need to do is have some free storage on your Google Drive and the rest of the things will be taken care by the application itself. Heres what you need to do to backup WhatsApp chats on your Android smartphone:

With this, you will be able to back up your data on your Android smartphone with ease.

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WhatsApp also allows you to backup your WhatsApp messages to cloud storage. However, in this case, it will be stored in iCloud and not on Google Drive. Heres how you can do it:

Moreover, you can also enable automatic updates by simply clicking on the Auto Backup and then login into your iCloud account. You also have an option to upload videos or not from this menu.

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If you dont want to backup all your chats or messages on Google Drive, WhatsApp gives you an option to Export particular chats from the application. Heres how you can do it:

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You can also export WhatsApp chat from your iPhone. Heres how you can do it:

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If you are thinking that WhatsApp backup will eat up your Google Drive cloud storage, then you need not worry. This is because WhatsApp has clearly mentioned that the WhatsApp chat backup does not take any space on Google Drive. However, it is important to note that media and messages you back up on Google Drive are not protected by WhatsApps end-to-end encryption.

Well, there is no direct way to see all the data that is backed up on Google Drive from WhatsApp. This is primarily because the data is end-to-end encrypted, meaning that you will not be able to read it on your PC or using any other third-party application. The only way to access the WhatsApp backup is by restoring the same on your WhatsApp account. That said, you can see how much space WhatsApp backup has taken on your Google Drive. Heres how:

With this, you will be able to see all the storage WhatsApp has taken on Google Drive.

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No, you cant transfer the WhatsApp backup from iCloud to Google Drive directly. This is because the WhatsApp backup is stored with different encryptions on iCloud and Google Drive, which makes it quite impossible to transfer between two cloud storage services.

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As per WhatsApp, if you havent updated your WhatsApp backup data in more than one year then all the backups will be automatically removed from Google Drive. Moreover, every time you create a Google Drive backup using the same Google account, the previous backup with be overwritten and there is no way to restore an older Drive backup.

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