If December 6 or 7 is the last day you managed to upload a WhatsApp backup to Google’s cloud, this article is what you were looking for, unfortunately confirming the existence of a problem. At least maybe you’ll feel less alone. Indeed, since December 7, the WhatsApp application has had problems making cloud backups on Google Drive. The save download inexorably stops at 99%, preventing it from completing. All attempts to resolve it seem to be unsuccessful and even completely deleting the WhatsApp backup from Google Drive does not prevent the problem from recurring, with the download continuing to hang at 99%. It seems that the problem is particularly prevalent on WhatsApp in the beta version for Android, while few users are reporting cloud backup issues in the standard version of the software. Even the latest updates arriving from December 7 did not resolve the issue. We hope WhatsApp can resolve the issue as soon as possible. A user who loses or changes their smartphone in recent days should forgo all chats and attachments received in recent days.
