Bad news for Android users: Transferring WhatsApp to a new phone costs money

Transferring WhatsApp to a new Android phone will not be as easy as before. Because Google wants to pay for this service for Androids!

If you buy a new Android phone, it will be very easy to set up WhatsApp on your new device. Just login and agree to transfer your cloud backup to your new device. Chats, multimedia content and everything starts downloading.

Until now, using chat backups in WhatsApp was completely free. But this free feature is only valid until December this year. Google announced today in a statement that transferring WhatsApp to a new phone through cloud backups will no longer be free.

If you don’t pay for Google One service or other cloud solutions provided by Google, you will get 15 GB of free cloud storage. But this 15 GB will be for Gmail, Google Photos and all other Google cloud services. Now you have to add the support version of your chats to this space. This is bad news for users who use WhatsApp to transfer data to their friends and colleagues. Because their backups will be very large.

What should be done if the volume of WhatsApp backups is large?

If the volume of your backups is large and you want to still include the free transfer of WhatsApp, you need to reduce the volume of your backup by deleting the extra files. Otherwise, you will have to pay to upgrade your account to 15 GB of storage space. This is very simple, but time consuming.

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How to backup all WhatsApp information on Android and iPhone

You should go through the chats one by one and delete the multimedia content you don’t need. Google provides you with 100 GB of space for $2 per month. This means that if you want to increase the storage space available to you, you have to pay about 100 thousand tomans per month.