I bought a new phone (OnePlus Nord 2 5G) and to my surprise, the WhatsApp backup restore my images but without dates.
I think the best solution for backing up images is to drop WhatsApp backup (for images only) and use Google Photos backup as I did for my camera images.
I saw a way to disable WhatsApp images backup which involved renaming the images folder but I am not sure what consequences this will have.
Any idea? how do you guys back up your WhatsApp images?