Gradually, WhatsApp is updating its features with news that users have been waiting a long time: dark theme, calls for hosting, traditional sharing menu sharing, up to eight video conferencing … but there is something for you most: WhatsApp compatibility with iPads.
The beauty part has been good for many months, but that's not all. WhatsApp's arrival on tablets will not be like computers (an application that just shows what is being seen on the phone on a Wi-Fi network), if not and will also offer its traditional support for many devices. And that will have a lot of effects on how we manage WhatsApp.
WhatsApp and the "traditional" managers of your conversations
Let's review the current situation. While some messaging services already store their data in the cloud by default (say specifically Telegal quality here), WhatsApp continue to save your messages automatically to the local storage of your iPhone. It's the only limit you should be able to save for those messages.
In addition, WhatsApp does back up all those messages (at least those texts) to iCloud as long as there is sufficient reserve. From what I have seen in my experience as a coach, the most common case of the average user is that they do not see the program and do not spend time managing that maintenance. The result should spend more time cleaning up when the iPhone starts giving warnings that its storage is full.
What will the cloud management of our WhatsApp messages be like if Facebook decides to make that change?
As I mentioned before, there is no management from computers. MacOS and Windows applications are limited to all the storage stored in the WhatsApp iPhone client, nothing else. That will change when support for multiple devices reaches the hands of the iPadOS customer.
The very name of support for many different devices & # 39; s already signifies a change we will make: move from storing all of our WhatsApp messages, photos and video history from local iPhone storage to the cloud to sync everything just fine as other apps already do. The euro million dollar question is: what will that cloud be like?
Unlimited space like Telegram or paid extensions like iCloud
Facebook has to make a choice based on how it wants to appear on WhatsApp. First of all we can see something like Telegal
The setback to choosing this course is that WhatsApp is a real data generating machine. The service is used by over 1.6 billion people worldwide (over twice as many Telegrams users), which translates into billions of messages, photos and videos to be stored automatically on servers. Is there any alternative to this?
We've seen the advent of additional storage subscription model, as it already does on iCloud or Google Drive
We can think of a business model, for example what they do with Dropbox, iCloud or Google Drive. Provide some amount of free cloud storage to store our message history, in that area the monthly or annual payment
Facebook I would find, almost without blue, a great source of income and a great customer base from those 1,600 people who think WhatsApp is very important in their lives. They can also provide unlimited storage of text messages, while pictures, videos, and audios can take over the cloud in that business sense.
This could be the exciting future of WhatsApp, which he would teach everyone keep the storage used by all of their chatbots, or I would encourage them not to pay at least long. In all of this, the arrival of WhatsApp for the iPad will be more important than we think.
When will it come? We don't know for sure, but it should be sooner rather than later. And when it does, somehow, we should continue to monitor everywhere the space our WhatsApp conversations are, be it local or cloud-based in front of us. My advice: be prepared for this change.
