[humanpuff69]

Wait... Google Play Store is only ONE of the many Google services.

Google Play Store and Google Drive are obviously different Google services.

Disabling Google Play Store will not stop you accessing your Google Drive.




This is not true, at least for me. I always take manual backups of my Whatsapp data to local SD card, and never have any issue about it.

it is not the case anymore now most app use firebase that REQUIRE google service and since around 80% of apps use firebase most of them will lost some firebase functionality . if it just the cloud messaging part it is as simple as not getting a push notification but if it is a realtime database or the cloud firestore it can be fatal because the apps need access to database and it cannot happen without the google service . google is smart making the developer use firebase for free (not totally free ) to get developer to put firebase in their app making android much more need of the google play service and making android toward closed source because the google thing is closed source