WhatsApp is already laying the groundwork for a big leap forward in the way it works with our chats. More precisely, in a way that allows us to process their backup copies. Because although we can now save backup copies locally, these copies are “fake”. WhatsApp uses them, yes, but we can’t do anything with them. The real ones are passing through the cloud, and that’s about to change.

We’ve been seeing changes in handling this kind of thing for a long time, paving the way for backup copies. Like the possibility of exporting and importing our backup in Google Drive. Now WhatsApp is getting ready so that we can do it cloudless if we want. If that’s how we feel, we can do everything locally.

Soon we will have backup copies that will not be for internal use

Information about future changes falls back into the hands of WABetaInfo, which is a real mine when it comes to browsing the code for the alpha and beta versions of the app. that’s where we were shown WhatsApp local backup will change soon and forever. No more copies for internal use, now we can do something with them.

Specifically, WhatsApp will let us Moving our WhatsApp backup from one mobile phone to another. Even if we leave the phone to file to another device like computer or external hard drive. We can take it to the storage area we want, and we can import it again in the future if we wish.

With this future option, multiple possibilities open up. Among them, Save a regular copy of WhatsApp and clear chats so they don’t occupy gigabytes and gigabytes of our internal storage. Maybe a copy every month or every year to lose weight. And we can always go to the copy the moment we want to recover all kinds of information.

Not only that, WhatsApp will allow us to save our data even if we do not have a suitable Internet connection. It will be enough to save the copy on our phone to send it to another place later. We still don’t know if this copy will be multiplatform and it will allow us to move it from iOS to Android (and vice versa) whenever we want, but we undoubtedly love this functional local backup option.

via | WABetaInfo