A new feature of WhatsApp that lets you back up all your content from the messaging app to Google Drive has been in testing for many months now. It worked for some people on certain versions of WhatsApp back in April, for example, but not everyone got this ability enabled. Now it turns out that those who did may have either used beta versions of the messenger, or were simply lucky to be randomly selected to test this feature.
That's because WhatsApp content backup to Google Drive only (finally) became official today. What's even stranger is that this has happened through an announcement by Google, not WhatsApp - and not Facebook, the owner of the messenger.
