WhatsApp backups won’t count against your Google Drive storage from November - By SHYAM PHAD

WhatsApp backups won’t count against your Google Drive storage from November

Good news for folks who rely on google drive to store their whatsapp backup
they’ll soon no longer count against your cloud storage quota, so the space you have on there will be entirely yours to use with other files and documents.

As someone who uses the messaging service almost exclusively and switches phones every few weeks, I’m glad to know I won’t need to give up over 2GB of space on Google Drive (where I’ve got 19GB of space for free) – which is also where I stash my voice recordings for personal notes and interviews.

Android policy noted that the update was announced to some users via email.