Meanwhile WhatsApp likely still coaxes people into enabling cloud backup, e.g. to Google Drive

- which completely bypasses end-to-end encryption by putting plaintext chat history into the hands of Google et al.

(Not a WhatsApp user myself anymore, don't know, sorry, if someone can confirm this in the comments would be nice.

But it had been nagging to enable cloud backup long after they have been advertising "encryption" already.)