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Captain Zero

(6,714 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 09:02 AM Jun 2022

Riddle me this: Google Drive is trying to back up my WhatsApp?

I was getting some notices on my Android that a backup was failing.
So I double tapped it after several of these and discovered it was
Google Drive trying to back up my encrypted WhatsApp. And telling me I needed to do
something to do that backup.

I delete my WhatsApp convos almost daily for the reasons one uses WhatsApp.
Why would I want to back them up to Google Drive?
Why would Google Drive be attempting that automatically?
I don't remember enabling something like that.

I thought Google Drive was Google World and WhatsApp was Microsoft World.
Seems like that should be the twain that never meets.
Any thoughts?


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Riddle me this: Google Drive is trying to back up my WhatsApp? (Original Post) Captain Zero Jun 2022 OP
WhatsApp is owned by Meta (facebook) nt ramblin_dave Jun 2022 #1
Oh right. My bad on assigning them to MS. Thanks. Captain Zero Jun 2022 #2
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