What you need to know Google is now encouraging Google Drive users to use its new Google Drive for Desktop app. The app replaces the current Backup and Sync app for regular people, as well as the previous Drive client for businesses. Backup and Sync will stop working in October. As announced earlier in the year, Google is officially rolling out the new Google Drive for Desktop app. This new app will replace the more consumer-focused Backup and Sync and the Google Drive File Stream for businesses. The File Stream app has already been supplanted by Google Drive for Desktop, but the Backup and Sync app still exists separately. That is set to change.