WhatsApp will launch a change for phones that people have been asking for years and years from the company, but which is very difficult to reach us because it is not that easy to implement. Those at WhatsApp will finally implement for Android phones the option to password protect the backups that we save in Google Drive, this functionality has been expected for a very long time, and with difficulty it finally reaches us.
WhatsApp has been testing this implementation for users all over the world since a few weeks ago, and now we see how its integration in phones with the Android operating system is progressing. You can see in the image below that WhatsApp has now added the option to set a password for backups, this must have at least 8 characters to be as secure as possible, and the more complex it is, the more better for us.
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WhatsApp it will not save this password in its servers, nor in those of Facebook, according to the information that has been discovered so far about this function, so you must not forget it. If you forget the password you set for your backup, then WhatsApp will not be able to help you recover it, it will be completely lost, so you will be left without the data from that backup if you decide to change your phone.
WhatsApp implements this functionality because until now there has been nothing similar to allow Android phone users to protect their backups made in Google Drive. Things are still changing for the better for everyone, so that in the near future WhatsApp will no longer force people to save backups in Google Drive that do not offer the same level of protection as happens in the case of iPhone and iCloud phones.
WhatsApp this functionality is in full development, so it remains to be seen when it will be released for all Android phones, all depending on how the testing process will proceed.
