One can lose their WhatsApp chats due to many reasons. This can happen when a user changes his device or accidentally deletes his chat. This can lead to the loss of important information shared on the chat, including contacts, maps, documents, etc., and any unsaved media. But thankfully there is a way to retrieve deleted WhatsApp chats using chat history saved on your Google Drive or device.
WhatsApp does not store your chats on its servers, but instead creates a database on your Google Drive or your device’s internal storage. It can be used to get back any chat history that has been accidentally deleted or lost due to any other reason.
Follow these steps to restore your chat history:
Restore WhatsApp Chats from Google Drive
First of all, make sure that WhatsApp is backing up the chat history to your Google Drive account. If you’re switching to a new device, log in to your Google Account first. Users can choose to back up their chat history daily, weekly or monthly.
To restore your WhatsApp chat history, install WhatsApp and verify your phone number. Once the sign in and verification is complete, WhatsApp will prompt you to restore your chat history from Google Drive. Click ‘Restore’ to complete the process. Once done, tap on ‘Next’ to find your old chats.
If you don’t have your chat history in Google Drive, WhatsApp will pull it from local storage. However, this will not happen on any new device.
restore whatsapp chat history from local backup
Go to the file manager, or download it if you don’t have one. Look for the WhatsApp folder, which is usually in your internal storage. After going to the folder, tap on Databases. Here you will find a date-wise backup of your chat history organized. Make sure it has the chat history of the date you want.
If you have saved your WhatsApp data in SD card, then copy the latest entry in the database folder and paste it in the folder of the same name in your internal storage.
Now uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp and log in using your phone number. Let WhatsApp restore your chat history by tapping on the ‘Restore’ button.
To restore a chat back up from a later date, select the desired one from the database folder and rename it from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12. Be careful to extract only the date and leave the rest unchanged. Do not change the crypt extension. Uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp, log in, and then restore your chat back-up.
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