Android users, Whatsapp is going to delete your chat archive unless you take action and fast.
Messaging apps are one of our primary forms of communication with one another. So it's only natural that some of the biggest moments of our lives were sent over texts.
And it's only natural that you may want to hang onto some of those messages for sentimental reasons.
Well if you're a regular user of WhatsApp and don't want to see your messages erased forever, you better take action and quickly.
The popular chat app wants to encourage Android users to back up their message log to Google Drive, so will soon delete any posts that are unarchived.
Which seems a bit harsh.
But luckily there’s a simple way of making sure Whatsapp doesn’t get rid of all those cherished messages from your loved ones.
Just back it up to Google Drive.
To do this, open up Whatsapp’s setting pages, which you access by tapping the three dots icon in the top right of the screen.
Then select the ‘Chat’ option and open up ‘Chat backup’.
If you have a Google Drive account - which you’ll already own if you started up a Gmail address or signed up for another Google service - you can then select it by opening up ‘account’.
You’ll then be able to select your Google Drive account. Whatsapp will automatically perform backups unless you press the big ‘backup’ button to do it manually.
Apple users are already able to save their messages to iCloud.
