To restore your WhatsApp backup, you need to uninstall and reinstall the app, then verify your phone number; during setup, WhatsApp will detect your cloud backup (Google Drive for Android, iCloud for iPhone) and prompt you to tap "Restore", bringing back your chats and media from the last backup date. Ensure you use the same phone number and account (Google/iCloud) that created the backup for a successful recovery.
To restore your chat history from your Google Account backup:
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Once it's backed up, you can restore your chat history on your new phone. Alternatively, you can transfer your chat history. Note: The option to transfer the WhatsApp account is available at the “registration” phase. If you'd like to transfer only your chats, you can do so from the Settings tab.
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Restore files with File History
To restore deleted content, or to restore a file or folder to a previous state: Open File Explorer and navigate to the folder that used to contain the file or folder. Right-click on the folder name, and then select Restore previous versions.
Your Google Account only stores one backup per WhatsApp phone number. Each new backup overwrites the old one, so there's no way to restore a previous Google Account backup.
Note: When you delete a chat, it can't be undone. WhatsApp is unable to recover deleted chats for you. You can only recover deleted chats if your latest backup occurred prior to deleting a chat. Please be aware that you'll lose any chats that occurred after the latest backup.
Set up automatic backups
Tap your profile picture. Tap Chats > Chat backup. Tap Auto backup and choose your backup frequency.
Uninstall WhatsApp from your device. Reinstall WhatsApp from the Google Play Store. During the setup process, WhatsApp will prompt you to restore your chat history from the backup.
So, if you switch to a new phone but your backup hasn't run for the past 20 hours, you're going to lose all those messages sent/received in the interim when you switch to the new phone. There is a way to avoid this problem and that's to force WhatsApp to perform a backup immediately before you switch to a new device.
To transfer data from an Android device to a new Android device:
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To find your WhatsApp backup in Google Drive, open the Google Drive app, ensure you're logged into the correct Google account, tap the three-line menu (or profile icon), select Backups, and you'll see your WhatsApp backup listed, where you can manage or delete it. WhatsApp backups are hidden in the "Backups" section, not the main file list, and are tied to the phone number and Google Account used for creation.
You can back up your chat history using your Google Account on Android devices, or iCloud on iPhone. To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend backing up your WhatsApp data often. To learn how to back up your chats, read this article.
Next, go to WhatsApp > Databases. (Note: If your data isn't stored in the /SD card/WhatsApp/ folder, you might see "internal storage" or "main storage" folders.) When it comes to backing up your WhatsApp on Android, it's always a handy option to make a cloud backup.
For Google Drive™'s native restore options, use the version history feature by right-clicking on the file and selecting “Manage versions” to restore an older version of a file. For third-party tools, follow the software's specific procedures to select and restore the backups.