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		beagle3 on May 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: De-Googling my phone But backup, at least in the past, did require gapps

captn3m0 on May 4, 2018 | [–]

If you install the drive app, microG + whatsapp backups works. There is an open ticket to natively support this in microG as well.

Also, WhatsApp has long supported compressed file backups (non-cloud) for a while now.

throwaway2048 on May 4, 2018 | [–]

microg is an implementation of most relevant playstore APIs

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