WhatsApp to soon makes it easier to manage your chat backup size

WhatsApp may be more popular than Telegram, but it is not as rich as its competitors. Slowly but surely, Facebook’s messaging service has been adding new features to the platform, with hidden chat backups, multi-device support, voice messaging, and more in the build. Recently, WABetaInfo has now discovered another new feature developed for WhatsApp for Android – how to control backup size.

The full chat backup size of surviving WhatsApp users can easily fit into a few GBs. An obvious way to reduce this is by not saving media files with chat history, which may not be acceptable to everyone.

The forthcoming “Manage backup size” option will give users granular controls over their WhatsApp chat backups and allow them to archive important file types such as photos, documents, videos, and audio. WhatsApp will also provide an exact database of your chat database based on your backup options.

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There could be another reason why WhatsApp works on this feature. WhatsApp backups in Google Drive currently do not count against your account share.

However, WABetaInfo believes this could change in the future, Google only offers up to 2GB of free space per user for WhatsApp chat backups. This means that large backups can be partially dependent compared to your Google Account storage portion.

Google has been having trouble providing free storage recently. It killed the free Google photo storage program earlier this year despite its popularity and usage. With WhatsApp being used by more than 2 billion users worldwide, we would not be surprised if Google did the same for WhatsApp chat backups.