How to Recover & Restore Deleted Whatsapp Messages and Chat?

Whatsapp is the most widely used messaging app across the world. Brought by Facebook in 2013, Whatsapp has effortlessly paved its way to becoming the world’s no.1 messaging app used by billions of people daily.

Whatsapp is used by people of every class and aids in making communication easier even within the longest distances. It has some amazing features which make it an easy to use- app for people of all ages.

From the governments to the IT sector, every company or group communicates Whatsapp is popular amongst all.

Therefore, many of us end up saving even the most important documents and several memorable images/videos on the app itself.

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How to Recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages?

Method 1:

So, here are simple methods by which you can recover your lost data on WhatsApp. As mentioned earlier, Whatsapp has some distinctive features inbuilt which make recovering the lost data an easier task.

Whatsapp backs up all the messages and chats history every day at 2:00 AM automatically by itself.

It also gives you the option to backup your data manually. You can choose the backup option daily, weekly, or monthly to your Google Drive. If you want you can also include videos as well.

The automatic backup created every day by WhatsApp involves a backup of all chats including documents, images, or videos.

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You can restore the backed-up data by reinstalling WhatsApp. It is the most standardized method to restore Whatsapp data.

Step 1:

Reinstall WhatsApp on your mobile.

Step 2:

After installing, add your phone number (the previously used one).

Step 3:

Select the ‘restore chat history’ option and Click on ‘restore’.

This kind of restoration is possible only when you go to settings and click on ‘chat back up’.  You can also choose ‘chat back up’ to create back up immediately or click on ‘back up to Google drive.

You can choose the frequency of the backup and then WhatsApp will back up data to Google drive without fail.

Method 2:

You can restore and read WhatsApp messages and chat from a local file via the file manager or main storage.

Step 1:

Go to file manager and open the card.

Step 2:

Go to WhatsApp and then to the database of the same. You can see that most of the chats are restored there or in the main storage.

Step 3:

Select from the list, the chat you want to back up without changing the number of crypts extensions.

Step 4:

Uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp and then click on it when prompted. Done! You have your WhatsApp data restored!

I hope this article on how to recover and restore your deleted WhatsApp messages and chat history through Google Drive was helpful to you. Let us know if you’ve tried any of these restoration methods.

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