What the hell is this in my Google Photos app?
The Photos backup is different as they'll be treated like any regular photos and take from your Google Drive storage
WhatsApp's own backup feature is a different dedicated partnership with Google
More on reddit.comGoogle Photos demands full access to personal photos to use the app, rather than just the photos you choose to share. Once granted access it then automatically begins taking your entire personal photo library and associated data and backing it up onto Googleโs servers for them to scrape data from.
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I see all these WhatsApp options unchecked. Just looked through my friends' phones as well and they all had the same thing. I always thought WhatsApp had its own chat and photo backup system that I've always used. First time seeing this in Photos app, also because it's the first time I'm meddling in Photos app settings. What is the difference between backing WhatsApp from here and from WhatsApp directly? Are they two different things? Do I need to enable all these in order for WhatsApp to save everything? Have I been doing it all wrong for the past 10 years?