How to Recover Deleted Messages in WhatsApp

If you accidentally deleted or somehow lost your WhatsApp chat history, you can restore it. WhatsApp automatically stores your chats from the last seven days, creating a backup every night at 2am and saving that to your phone itself. It's also possible to set up your phone to back your chats up to the cloud. If you just need to restore deleted chats from your most recent backup and you already had your information backed up to the cloud, uninstalling and reinstalling the app is the easiest way. However, since your device stores seven day's worth of nightly backups, it's also possible to go back to a specific day during the last week, using those backup files.

Method1

Restoring Your Last Backup

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   Check your lost data was backed up. Do not create a new backup now, or it will override the most recent version of your backup file and you'll lose the deleted messages in the backup, too.

   • Open WhatsApp and tap Settings.
   • Tap Chats and Chat backup.
   • Look at the Last backup date and time. If the given backup would include the messages you want to recover, keep going with this method. If not, try the other methods.
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   Uninstall WhatsApp from your phone. You need to remove the entire app first before you can restore deleted messages.
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   Go to your phone’s app market and download WhatsApp again.
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   Launch the app from the home screen.
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   Agree with the terms and conditions. Then enter your mobile phone number.
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   Restore your messages. The next screen will notify you that a message backup is found for your phone. Click on “Restore” and wait for the recovery process to finish.

   • By default, WhatsApp automatically creates a backup of all your message threads every day at 2 o’clock in the morning. The latest backup saved there will be the one that loads up.

Method2

Restoring a Less Recent Backup on Android

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   Open the App Drawer. By default, your phone has local backup files from the past seven days while Google Drive only has the most recent.
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   Tap File Manager.
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   Tap sdcard.
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   Tap WhatsApp.
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   Tap Databases. If your data isn't stored on your SD card, it might be on your phone/internal storage instead.
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   Rename the backup file you want to restore. Change the name from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.

   • Earlier backups might also be on an earlier protocol such as crypt9 or crypt10.
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   Uninstall WhatsApp.
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   Reinstall WhatsApp.
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   Tap Restore.

Method3

Restoring a Less Recent Backup 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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   Tap sdcard.
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   Tap WhatsApp.
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   Tap Databases. If your data isn't stored on your SD card, it might be on your phone/internal storage instead.
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   Rename the backup file you want to restore. Change the name from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.

   • Earlier backups might also be on an earlier protocol such as crypt9 or crypt10.
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   Uninstall WhatsApp.
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   Reinstall WhatsApp.
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    Tap Restore.