How to Recover Deleted Messages in WhatsApp

If you accidentally delete or accidentally lose your WhatsApp chat history, you can still recover it. Every day, at 2 a.m., WhatsApp automatically archives chats for seven days, creating backups and saving them to your own phone. You can also set up your phone to back up your chats in the cloud. If you just need to restore chats from the last backup and this information has been backed up to the cloud, then uninstalling and reinstalling the app is the easiest way. However, since the storage device backs up every night for up to seven days, you can go to a specific date last week and use these backed up files.

Table of Contents

Restore last backup

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Check if lost data is backed up. At this point, do not create a new backup because when you do, the most recent backup will be overwritten and lose the messages you want to restore.

Open WhatsApp and tap Settings .
Tap Chats then Chat backup .
Look at the date of the Last backup . If the above backup contains messages that you want to restore, continue with this method. If not, you can switch to another method.

Restore older backup on Android

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Open the application tray. By default, the phone stores internal backup files for the last seven days, and Google Drive only stores the most recent backup.

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Click File Manager .

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Press sdcard (sd card).

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Tap WhatsApp .

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Click Databases . If not stored in SD card, it is possible that your data is stored in internal/phone storage.

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Rename the backup file you want to restore. Rename from msgstore-Year-Month-Day.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.

Older backups may also be in older protocols, such as crypt9 or crypt10.

Restore older backups on iOS

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Download File Manager from the App Store.

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Install on your phone.

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Open File Manager.

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Press sdcard .

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Tap WhatsApp .

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Click Databases . If not stored on SD card, it’s likely that the data is stored in your phone/internal storage.

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Rename the backup file to restore. Change from msgstore-Year-Month-Day.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.

Older backups may also be in older protocols, such as crypt9 or crypt10.

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Uninstall WhatsApp.

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Reinstall WhatsApp.

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Click Restore .

Advice

The ability to completely restore chat history is a unique feature of Blackberry 10.
It may take a while to complete the first backup. Therefore, you should plug in the charger so that the phone does not power off during this backup process.
Don’t create a backup when you accidentally delete a message. When you do, the old backup (containing the chat that you want to restore) will be replaced.

Steps

Restore last backup

Restore older backup on Android

Restore older backups on iOS

Advice

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