Whether we are near or far, communication via Whatsapp is a constant. Whatsapp developed into such a necessity today that we are almost on the brink of bidding our adieus to the traditional form of a mobile messaging system or SMS. I mean why shall we still hold on to the SMS with faster and better facilities offered by Whatsapp?
Whatsapp was developed by the former Yahoo! employees, Brian Acton, Jan Koum with an urgent need of developing an app that is capable of integrating via phone numbers, where the status updates would show right next to the users, and would otherwise function like the SMS system except that it would be powered by the internet.
Though the initial idea behind Whatsapp was to make it a hit on the Apple Store, it saw a steady rise in the total number of users throughout the world and decided to program it for android too, which soon emerged as a super popular app on Google Playstore.
During its initial days when testing was going on for Whatsapp, the early versions of the app continued to crash time and time again, which also drove one of its founders Jan Koum to ultimately do away with the idea. However, with the constant support and engagement that came from Brian, Whatsapp finally became stable and was launched in November 2009 exclusively for the Apple Store. However, later on, the founders of the app decided it fit too for other Operating systems like Android and Symbian.
Whatsapp is now more than a daily fare. In fact, it won’t be wrong if we say that most of us are quite used to checking or responding to our messages on Whatsapp once every 15 minutes or so.
Whatsapp is truly a fast, effective, interactive, and useful social media app with a bundle of exciting and useful features for all. And it is for these reasons that more and more individuals and companies have joined Whatsapp over the past decade and is still ongoing. Besides, Whatsapp also duly packed in a wide range of effective and foolproof features that kept its user base engaged and occupied with Whatsapp and never looked for any other alternative.
The growing importance of Whatsapp along with a series of useful features and functionalities that the web app added in the past years has made it an indispensable companion for all of us. Whether it is for business communications or personal ones most of us opt for Whatsapp. This leads to the storage of all our valuable information in the form of texts, audio files, videos, documents, and more on our Whatsapp accounts. Therefore, it is downright dismal if we find that we have lost our Whatsapp messages all of a sudden.
If you have lost them recently and are seeking ways to get them all back, then do not worry because we have tried and tested some easy methods that will help you restore your old deleted Whatsapp messages.
Easy Methods to Restore your Chat History
Many of the incidents where most of the Whatsapp users seem to have lost their data are after they have switched their mobile phones. If you are one such user who is planning to switch your mobile device and fear that your Whatsapp data might be deleted, then worry not!
The new version of Whatsapp enables us to write our data or copy it to a new device by restoring it from Google Drive or a local backup. So, if you have already backed your Whatsapp data up as per the prompts of the app, then you’re in luck because you can restore the same easily from your Google Drive backup.
However, first, you need to know how to backup your Whatsapp message to Google Drive, if you don’t know how to do it. Here are some easy steps that you can follow to back your Whatsapp messages effectively on your Google Drive so that you can restore them later on from the same.
Setting automatic backup is unarguably the best thing you can do and to do this you need to:
- First, open Whatsapp on your device.
- Then, you need to tap on the three dots that appear on the top-right corner of your app.
- Next, you need to tap on the Settings option and then on the option that says Chats.
- Now, you need to select the Chat Backup option.
- You will now receive a dialog box that says Backup to Google Drive and here you need to select any option other than Never. You will get 3 other options, Daily, Weekly, and Monthly where you can choose any of them.
- After that, you need to select the Google account that you want to use for your Whatsapp backups.
How to Restore Data from your Google Drive backup?
If you already have your Whatsapp data backed up on your Google Drive, and you are planning to restore the data from the same, then you need to use the same mobile number and the Google account that you have used initially to create the backup.
Easy Steps to Restore your Whatsapp Messages with the Google Drive Backup:
- First, you need to start with uninstalling and reinstalling your WhatsApp account.
- After you have done that you need to open WhatsApp and verify your number.
- Now, you would be prompted to restore your chats and media from Google Drive, and in order to do this, you need to select the RESTORE option.
- After the restoration process is completed, you need to tap on the NEXT option. Here you will get all your chats displayed after you have done the initialization procedure.
- Once your chats are completely restored, WhatsApp will then begin to restore your media files.
- If you want to install WhatsApp from Google Drive without any previous backups, then WhatsApp will automatically restore everything from your local backup files.
How to See Old Deleted Whatsapp Messages
In case you are looking forward to restoring a local backup that isn’t the most recent one, then you’ll have to go through a series of easy steps that will allow you to do so effortlessly:
- You need to start with downloading a file manager app.
- Now, while you are in the file manager app, you need to navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases. Here, if you don’t find your data stored on the SD card, then you need to further check out “internal storage” or the “main storage” instead of the sdcard.
- Next, you need to rename the backup file that you want to restore. The file will initially be named “msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12” and you need to rename it to “msgstore.db.crypt12”. Here, it is also possible that the earlier backup that you or the app might have done was saved on an earlier protocol, like crypt9 or crypt10. So, you need to be aware of the crypt extension and don’t change it as you wish.
- Now, you need to go ahead and uninstall your Whatsapp before you install it back again on your mobile.
- Lastly, you need to tap RESTORE when the app prompts.
If you fail to get any possible results with the help of the above methods, then you can try this final method where you can try restoring with a third-party tool called WhatsRemoved+. You will get a number of third-party tools that will allow you to do so:
- Try visiting Google Play Store, and then search for the WhatsRemoved+ application.
- Next, you need to install it on your android smartphone.
- You need to grant all the required permissions for the app smoothly. After you have done that, you will then be asked to select the app for which you want to save notifications or verify any change.
- You will then get a list, where you need to select WhatsApp and then tap on Next. You will now get an option that says Save Files. You need to click on the same and then follow the on-screen instructions as they are presented.
- After you are done with the setup, the app will start storing all the notifications from WhatsApp, which includes the deleted ones. Whenever one deletes a message, you can simply go to the application, and then click on WhatsApp to read the deleted messages.
