No more free lunch for WhatsApp Android users as backups will be deducted from storage limit

If you are an Android user, every night (or week or month, depending on your choice), without fail, WhatsApp backups your chats and media to Google Drive. It’s a hassle-free process, made more convenient by the fact that the backups don’t count towards your free Google Drive storage space, which is 15GB for everyone. Those days are about to be over.Google and WhatsApp have announced that WhatsApp backups will soon start impacting your free cloud storage quota. This means you cannot continue to be as mindless as you have been about backups because if you run out of storage, the backups will stop. To continue storing your chats and media on the cloud, you’ll have to delete some stuff from your Google Drive. You may also consider deleting items from WhatsApp so they take up as little space as possible.To avoid sounding like a spoil-sport, Google points out that this is how backups have always been handled on other platforms (Apple’s iOS) which offer three times less free storage space (5GB) than Google. Keep in mind that 15GB of free storage is shared across Google Drive, Google Photos, and Gmail.WhatsApp Beta users will be the first to experience this change
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