How To Restore Backup on WhatsApp

This guide will show you all of the ways on how to create and restore a backup on WhatsApp for Android and iPhone devices.

Bradley Flemming

Bradley Flemming

How To Restore Backup on WhatsApp

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Have your WhatsApp chats been accidentally deleted? WhatsApp chats can be deleted by accident or when transferring to a new phone. luckily, there are fixes to the problem and this article will show you how to restore a backup on WhatsApp.

How to restore WhatsApp backup – Android

Restoring and creating WhatsApp backups on Android phones is relatively simple. this article will go over the steps below.

How to create a backup WhatsApp – Google Drive

If you want to restore WhatsApp chats on a new device using a google drive backup you must ensure that you have your chats backed up before they can be restored. To turn on chat backup you will need to do the following.

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Step

How to create a backup WhatsApp – Google Drive

  1. Open WhatsApp.
  2. Tap on the three dots in the top-right corner.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. From the menu choose ‘Chats’, and then ‘Chat Back up’
  5. You can choose the Google account that you want the chats backed up to, or create a local backup.
  6. Press ‘Back up’.
  7. Choose a frequency other than ‘never’
  8. Once a backup has been generated you can delete WhatsApp and install it on a new device.

How to restore a backup WhatsApp – Google Drive

Step

How to restore a backup WhatsApp – Google Drive

  1. Link your Android device to a Google account and enable baking up as shown in the steps above.
  2. Install WhatsApp on your new phone and then verify your phone number
  3. Choose to restore from Google Drive backup
  4. When complete all previous chats will be displayed on your new Android device.

How to create a backup WhatsApp -Local storage

When backing up WhatsApp messages to google drive they aren’t end-to-end encrypted. If you enable encrypted backups of your WhatsApp messages they are saved to your phone’s sd card. To make Whatsapp save backups to your phone’s internal storage then follow these steps.

Step

How to create a backup WhatsApp -Local storage

  1. Open WhatsApp
  2. Select the vertical dots in the top-right corner.
  3. Choose settings.
  4. From the menu choose ‘Chats’, and then ‘Chat Back up’
  5. Select back up to google drive and tap on ‘Never’
  6. Press ‘Back up’ to start the backup process to your internal storage

How to enable encryption

If privacy and security are a concern then encrypted backups can be enabled. Here’s how to do it.

Step

How to enable encryption

  1. Open WhatsApp
  2. Select the vertical dots in the top-right corner.
  3. Choose settings.
  4. From the menu choose ‘Chats’, and then ‘Chat Back up’
  5. Then tap on end-to-end encrypted backup and click ‘Turn on’
  6. Follow the on-screen instructions
  7. Then press ‘Create’ and start the process

How to restore a backup WhatsApp -Local storage

Once you have a backup stored in your phone’s internal storage or SD card you can easily restore it with these steps.

Step

How to restore a backup WhatsApp -Local storage

  1. Launch your file manager app
  2. Find WhatsApp, and choose ‘Databases’
  3. Install WhatsApp and verify your game cache
  4. When prompted to restore, choose to do it from the local backup file

How to restore WhatsApp backup – iPhone

You can also create backups on iOS, although not as easy as doing on an Android counterpart it can be done.

How to restore WhatsApp backup – iCloud

Step

How to restore WhatsApp backup – iCloud

You must ensure that you have an iCloud backup, to begin with. To check for this open WhatsApp > settings > Chats > Chat Backup. You must also be signed in the same Apple ID you used for iCloud.

Additionally, there must be enough free space on your phone and iCloud, which is twice the size of the backup file.

Then you just have to install WhatsApp onto your new iPhone and use your phone number, follow the prompts, and tap restore from iCloud. you will now have access to all your WhatsApp chat history

Final Thoughts

With these steps, you should have all the knowledge on how to create and restore backups on Whatsapp. We have shown multiple methods so you can determine which is the best one for you. Additionally, restoring backups is also a great way to see deleted messages on WhatsApp, so these methods can be used if you need to do so.