Recently company CEO Jan Koum also announced on his Facebook page that WhatsApp has reached 800 million monthly active users. The company had crossed 700 million active users in January and 100 million in last 4 months with latest version of WhatsApp for Android app which will let you backup your WhatsApp conversations to Google Drive. This feature will be available in the latest update with version number 2.12.45 for Android. This version can be downloaded from the company’s official website as well.

The company is expected to roll out the WhatsApp voice calling feature to iOS and Windows Phone users soon. The company also rolled out end-to-end encryption in November last year.

With the new update, you will need to select the option to take a backup to Google Drive in the chat ‘Settings’ tab. You will naturally have to connect your Gmail account associated with Drive to the WhatsApp account.

In January, Koum also claimed that WhatsApp saw a massive exchange of over 30 billion messages - every single day.

Koum in his Facebook post clarifies that active users are different from registered users.