This information is nothing new, however, many of us do not
know about the fact that Google deletes your backups after an inactivity period
of two months. A Reddit user posted a thread saying how all of his previous
Android device’s data was deleted after he moved to iOS for about two months.
According to the Google Drive help page, if users don’t
check into their Android accounts in two weeks, the Android backup of their
current devices starts displaying a countdown of the days left till they are
deleted. Google will wipe out the backups after two months and all the app and
settings data is deleted, even if you are a paid user.
Many data storage companies delete user’s data after a fixed
period of time, but they give some sort of notification or warning beforehand.
The Reddit user said that Google gave no such warning and was not provided with
an option to use the Drive storage he pays for as an option for keeping his
backup. In order to check their backups, users need to use the Google Drive
app. Backups are not shown in the desktop version of Drive and Google should at
least start sending reminders in case a user’s device data is close to
expiration.
