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WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat applications for today's society. Even WhatsApp is also the top chat application globally.
This WhatsApp chat application has many features. Starting from personal chats, groups, to video calls. Apart from that, WhatsApp also allows its users to back up chat history and restore/restore chat history.
Then how to restore WhatsApp chats? Check out the discussion below.
How to restore WhatsApp chats
For those of you who have problems with losing chat history on WA or want to restore WA chat on another cellphone, you can use this feature. This feature allows you to restore your chat history in a certain period.
Previously you had to make sure that your chat backup settings were activated. This is of course a condition for you if you want to restore / restore chat.
Back up WA chat history
Reported by us from the official WhatsApp page, here's how to back up message history on WA.
1. Open the WhatsApp app > 'More Options' > 'Settings' > 'Chat' > 'Chat Backup'
2. Select the Google account to use to back up chats. Alternatively, you can also backup local on the device.
3. Select 'BACKUP'
4. Done, message history has been backed up.
After you make sure you have backed up chats, then you can restore chats on WhatsApp. There are several ways to restore chats on WhatsApp, see the steps below.
Restore from Google Drive backup
WhatsApp provides an automatic backup feature on your Google Drive account. You can activate the feature and recover chat history from Google Drive. How to restore WhatsApp chats via Google Drive, including:
1. Make sure your device is linked to the Google account where the backup is stored.
2. Install and open WhatsApp
3. Then, verify your phone number
4. After the recovery process is complete, select 'CONTINUE'
5. Chats that have been backed up will appear
6. WhatsApp will resume recovery of other media files
7. Done.
Besides the Google Drive way, there is another way for iPhone users. You can use iCloud to restore chats on WA.
Restore from iCloud backup
For those of you iPhone users, you can use iCloud to restore or restore chat history that you have previously backed up, here are the steps:
1. Make sure you have an iCloud backup in the WA app, 'Settings' > 'Chat' > 'Chat Backup'
2. Uninstall the WhatsApp application
3. Reinstall WA and log back in
4. Later a restore command will appear or restore chat
5. Click 'Next'
6. WhatsApp will immediately restore the backup file from iCloud that you have backed up
7. Done.
Then there is another way to use your HP memory, as below.
Restoring from local backup
If you want to use this method, you need to transfer the file to your cellphone using a computer, file explorer, or SD card. Here are the steps to restore it:
1. Open the File Manager application on your cellphone
2. Open internal storage or SD card, 'WhatsApp' > 'Database'
3. Copy the latest backup file to the Database folder
4. Install and open WA, verify the phone number
5. Click 'Restore', and make sure to restore chats and media from local backup
6. Done.
Restoring from an old (not newest) local backup
The way to restore the old version of the WA chat file is as follows:
1. Open the File Manager application on your cellphone
2. Open internal storage or SD card, 'WhatsApp' > 'Database'
3. Rename the backup file you want to restore, from the file named 'msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12' using 'msgstore.db.crypt12'
4. It is possible that the old backup file still uses an older version of the protocol, such as crypt9 or crypt10. Remember, don't change the crypt extension number.
5. Uninstall and reinstall the WA application on your cellphone
6. Open WA and login as usual
7. Select 'Restore' when prompted
8. Done
Well, that's how to restore chats on WhatsApp starting from using Google Drive, iCloud, to local backups. You can try these methods one by one to recover chat history.
The thing that needs to be confirmed beforehand is that you have to back up or backup your chat history first. Good luck.