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WhatsApp tips: How to backup your WhatsApp chats on Google Drive

WhatsApp tips and tricks: If you have to switch to a new phone or uninstall WhatsApp, you can take a backup of your WhatsApp chats in order to avoid losing it. Here is how you can backup WhatsApp chats.

By: HT TECH
| Updated on: Aug 22 2022, 11:40 IST
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WhatsApp tips and tricks: Know steps to backup WhatsApp chats here. (Pixabay)
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WhatsApp tips and tricks: Know steps to backup WhatsApp chats here. (Pixabay)

WhatsApp tips and tricks: WhatsApp, a social networking application is popularly used to chat and communicate with your friends, family and loved ones. Apart from chatting you can share images, videos, files, voice notes, stickers, GIFs, among others with them. From important conversations to normal chit-chat, you can use WhatsApp for both. But what if you lose your important conversations? The danger is very much real. It can happen when you switch to a new phone or uninstall the application from your phone without taking WhatsApp Chat backup. In order to save your conversations you need to take a backup of your WhatsApp chat. You can also take a backup of media files shared and received on the messaging app.

It can be known that your WhatsApp chats are automatically backed up and saved daily to your phone's memory. Depending on your settings, you can also periodically backup your WhatsApp chats to Google Drive. If you uninstall WhatsApp from your phone, but don't want to lose any of your messages, be sure to manually backup your chats before uninstalling. Don't know how to do it? Here is how to backup WhatsApp chats.

How to backup WhatsApp chats

1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.

2. Tap More options.

3. Click on Settings.

4. Tap on Chats and then click on Chat backup.

5. Finally you need to click on BACK UP.

How to backup WhatsApp chats to Google Drive

Before we tell you the process to take a backup on Google Drive, you need to know that in order to use Google Drive backup, you must have a Google account activated on your device, Google Play services installed on your device, enough free space on your device to create the backup, and a strong and stable internet connection. Now check out the steps you need to follow for taking the backup.

How to backup WhatsApp chats to Google Drive

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Step 1:

Open WhatsApp.

Step 2:

Tap More options > Settings > Chats > Chat backup > Back up to Google Drive.

Step 3:

Select a backup frequency other than Never.

Step 4:

Select the Google account you would like to back up your chat history to.

Step 5:

If you don't have a Google account connected, tap Add account when prompted and enter your login credentials.

Step 6:

Tap Back up over to choose the network you want to use for backups.

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First Published Date: 17 Apr, 11:42 IST
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