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Backups that do not

eat up

all your storage space and encrypted.

These are the two great novelties of WhatsApp with which the social network owned by Mark Zuckerberg

hopes to improve the user experience

.

On the one hand, WhatsApp works on a new function to allow its users to control the size of their backup copies in the cloud, which

makes it possible to exclude certain types of files such

as images or videos to save space.

In the latest beta of WhatsApp for Android mobiles, version 2.21.21.7, a menu entitled '

Manage the size of the backup

' has appeared, as reported by the specialized portal WABetaInfo.

In this section of the menu,

WhatsApp

includes a list with different types of data that the user can decide to include or not in their backup copies: chat, user settings, images, audios, videos, documents and other formats.

Under each section, the application provides an estimate of the weight of each type of file, and allows you to uncheck it to save space in the

final backup

.

Although the function is still under development and is not in operation, WABetaInfo has pointed out that WhatsApp backups on

Android

, which until now were stored in Google Drive in an unlimited way, could have a limit of 2,000MB per user , about 2GB.

WhatsApp with encrypted backups

The WhatsApp messaging application has launched its

end-to-end encrypted

cloud backup function

, which from this Thursday will be able to use its mobile users with iOS and Android operating systems.

WhatsApp had end-to-end encryption on its messages

for five years

.

It is an encryption system that generates keys that are only stored on the device and that prevents any third party from accessing the content, even the provider itself.

Now, the company has announced in a statement sent to Europa Press that from this Thursday users around the world will be able to access end-to-end encryption also for cloud backups on

Google Drive and Apple's iCloud.

The application, owned by Facebook, had already announced this function in September through its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and now it has finalized

its arrival in its version for Android and iOS mobiles

.

WhatsApp

users

will be able to protect their backup with end-to-end encryption

using a password of their own choosing or a 64-digit encryption key that only the user will know.

Using this encryption technique, not even WhatsApp or the

backup provider

(Google Drive or iCloud) will be able to read the backups or have access to the key to unlock them.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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