How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages on android

Have you accidentally deleted an important WhatsApp message and want to recover it immediately? Don’t worry, we are here to help you.

If you have never backed up your chats before, you will not be able to recover accidentally deleted chats. You can use the methods below to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages/chats. But some messages may be lost by uninstalling WhatsApp before restoring and restoring with the most recent backup.

So follow these steps very carefully when it is very important to recover deleted WhatsApp messages only. 

How to turn on chat backup on android phone

1. First, open WhatsApp.
2. Then go to the Settings menu.
3. Now go to the chat option.
4. Tap Chat Backup.

Here you can select daily, weekly, or monthly chat backup as per your convenience or do a manual backup. Next, select the Google account where you want to store the backup.

We will share the method of retrieving deleted WhatsApp chat messages through google drive or iCloud backup. Keep in mind that you can restore chat only if the backup option was previously turned on on WhatsApp.

 

 

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How to Recover/restore deleted WhatsApp messages on an android

1. First, uninstall WhatsApp from your Android smartphone or iPhone.
2. Now reinstall WhatsApp and verify it with your phone number.
3. Once the app is verified, you will get a prompt to restore messages from cloud/drive backup.
4. The backup will be from Google Drive on Android, and iCloud on iOS.
5. Then tap Restore.
6. This will bring back messages that you accidentally deleted.

Note: if you received a message after your most recent cloud backup and it was deleted, there is no way to recover it.

Another way to restore deleted WhatsApp chats is to recover them from local backup on your Android device. If your Google Drive backup has overwritten the deleted messages, follow the steps below. 

Your local backup will store files for the last seven days.

If your data is not stored in the / SDcard / WhatsApp / folder, you can check in the main storage or internal storage folder. First, restore the recent local backup.

• Go to the file manager of your Android phone.

• Now go to “Database” in the WhatsApp folder.

• The database folder contains WhatsApp backup files on your phone which are stored locally.

• Now select the Msgstore.db.crypt12 file.

• Then rename it msgstore_BACKUP.db.crypt12.

• It contains your most recent backup file and you will have to rename it so as to prevent it from being overwritten.

• If it goes wrong, you can change this file to its original name and restore it.

• You will see a group of files in this folder in the format of messtore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12. 

• Which is your old WhatsApp backup, you can take the most recent one and rename it msgstore.db.crypt12.

You can open Google Drive on your smartphone and click on the three vertical lines icon, tap on backup. Delete WhatsApp backup there. Which will force your phone to be restored from local backup.

Uninstall WhatsApp, then reinstall.

Once done, you will be prompted to restore the chat from a local backup, considering that the chat backup is not on the cloud.

Now tap on restore and you will get deleted chat back.

To successfully restore a backup from Google Drive, you will need to use the same phone number and Google account to create the backup from which you created the WhatsApp account before.

 

 

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1. First of all, uninstall WhatsApp.
2. And reinstall the app.
3. Enter your mobile number.
4. Now the app will remind you to restore your WhatsApp chat history.
5. Tap to recover your old messages including deleted ones.

If you accidentally deleted the chat/text messages, there is a chance that the chat can be restored from your cloud. 

If your Google Drive or iCloud backup happened at midnight and you accidentally deleted the morning chat, it would still be in the cloud backup. Which you can easily restore.

1. Dr.Fone – Data Recovery.
2. Recuva for WhatsApp Recovery.
3. Tenorshare UltData for Android.
4. Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery.
5. MyJad Android Data Recovery.
6. Remo Recover for Android.
7. Tenorshare Android Data Recovery.

How to Recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages on Android phone without Backup

Step #1: Download, install any Android Data Recovery software as FoneDog Toolkit, dr phone, Minitool, etc, and connect your Android device.

Step #2: Enable USB debugging on your phone.

Step #3: Select WhatsApp Messages to scan.

Step #4: Now Recover Deleted WhatsApp messages without backup on Android phone.

Above we have given some methods using which you can get back your old chat by accidentally deleting your WhatsApp chat. Simply, you have to turn on the chat backup option to restore any message.

 

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