By now, you should have created a complete backup of all your conversations, photos and videos WhatsApp to turn to in the event of a disaster. Remember, if not, you will dump all your WhatsApp information If you accidentally delete the app, change your mobile phone or have to send it for repair. However, it is possible even if that is enough.
Fortunately, there are alternatives for create backup copies of received files with the messaging app, and you know it access them from any device, WhatsApp installed or not. To do this, just use the platform cloud storage as Google Photos, where automatically saved photos, videos and GIFs are automatically saved.
Store your WhatsApp photos and videos in the cloud for Google Photos
For its day, we have already selected Google Photos as one of the best tools for backing up our Android devices, as it provides the opportunity to store photos and videos in high quality unlimited and totally free. And that's why photography is also a great choice keep files accessible by WhatsApp to create a backup, and luckily free up mobile space by avoiding the need to have original files in the phone memory.
That said, the process of Automatically upload WhatsApp photos, videos and GIFs to Google Photos It's easy, and you just need to follow a few simple steps:
1. Activate the visibility of multimedia files in WhatsApp
First, we must turn to WhatsApp app. Once inside, our work will be enable multimedia files visibility, which makes files of this nature – images, videos and GIFs – continue to appear in the phone gallery once you've downloaded them.
To do this, once inside the app, touch Three-point menu on the right and entering "Settings". From there, you must go "Conversations", and activate the option "Visibility of multimedia files".
2. Check that WhatsApp files appear in Google Photos
If you followed the steps carefully in the previous section, Your photos, videos and GIFs downloaded from WhatsApp should appear in the gallery. And of course, also on Google Photos. To view it, open the app – if you're not installed, now is the time – and go to the section "Albums" and check that the folders appear in the horizontal carousel at the top of the screen "WhatsApp photos" and "WhatsApp videos", If so, you can continue. If not, be sure download some photos or videos from WhatsApp, otherwise the folders will be empty and will not be displayed in Google Photos.
3. Enable Google Photos Backup
Once these folders are already available in your gallery and Google Photos, it's time to save files to the cloud – even if they appear in Google Photos, they are stored in your mobile phone memory. To do this, the first thing you must do activate Google Photos backup from the app settings.
After that you should install WhatsApp folders and video images in a set of albums whose photos will be copied to Google Photos in the cloud. You can do it by accessing each album individually as well activate the top switch, or from Google Photos settings, in the "Create backup and sync" section, in the "Backup device" folders.
4. (Optional) Enable automatic downloads of files to WhatsApp to create automatic copies
We can stop here: now, All photos and videos downloaded from WhatsApp will be stored safely in the cloud, and will be available whether we turn it off in the phone memory or in the messaging app conversations. However, we can go too far create auto backup of all multimedia files received by WhatsApp.
To do so, just enable automatic downloads of WhatsApp files If you are disabled. In this way, Photos and videos found will be stored in their respective folders After you find out, Google Photos will automatically back up.
You remember, unless you have a Google One subscription, you have to use the high quality mode of Google Photos to enjoy total unlimited storage. If you use "original" mode for photos and videos, you may WhatsApp files end up using all your location.
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