WhatsApp is the world’s most favourite instant messaging application and the same offers a variety of options and features that make our lives easy and make the platform perfect for each and every individual. WhatsApp has also offered the ability to take backup of our chat to Google Drive and the same was entirely free till now which means the Google Drive storage space was not counted.
But now the WhatsApp backup size will be countable from your Google Drive storage and this will affect you badly because the backup size will take a majority of space from your Google Drive. If you want to make the backup of your WhatsApp conversations without affecting your Google Drive storage too much then this article is meant for you as today I will be guiding you on the way to reduce WhatsApp backup sizes and this article will be beneficial for you to take your conversations with you without affecting your storage space on Google Drive. So without making any further delay let’s get into the article to check out the step by step guide to reduce WhatsApp backup size.
Disable auto media download
This is one of the most important steps as you need to disable the auto media download option and this will make sure that you will download only needed multimedia content like photos and videos and that will save lots of storage by eliminating unwanted media files. When you have less amount of media in your conversation then you have chat backup size will not be larger.
Don’t take videos with you
Videos consume a lot of space when you back up your WhatsApp chat so simply avoid videos in your backup and this will help you to reduce your WhatsApp backup size.
Enable disappearing messages
This particular feature will automatically delete unwanted messages and media automatically and that will make less baggage. You can disable the feature for selected contacts those are very important for you and you can carry all the chats of them in your backup. So this is very helpful to reduce backup size of your WhatsApp chats.
So try to implement these steps in your backup settings and you will be getting reduced size of WhatsApp backups. If you find this article helpful then don’t forget to share this with your friends and family as sharing is caring.
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