WhatsApp has now become our primary medium to communicate with our near and near ones and the platform also helps businesses to connect with their customers as well. The instant messaging application is feature rich as well and the same offers a variety of features to offer an amazing chatting experience on the board. It will also enable you to delete messages as well but sometimes we accidentally delete an important message and if you are someone who faces this kind of situation, then we have a perfect solution for you. In this article, we will guide you the way to recover deleted WhatsApp messages on Android. So without making any further delay let’s get into the article to check out the guide.
How to recover deleted WhatsApp messages
The procedure is pretty simple and you can able to follow two methods to recover your deleted WhatsApp messages on your Android smartphone or tablet. Follow the step by step guide below.
From Google Drive
Before getting into this method, you need to ensure that you are using the same phone number and Google account which you used to create the backup of your WhatsApp chats. If the number and account are the same then let’s move on.
- First of all, you need to uninstall WhatsApp from your Android device and then, reinstall the instant messaging application.
- After that, open WhatsApp on your phone or tablet and enter your registered WhatsApp number to sign in, verify your number with the OTP that you received on the number.
- Then you will get a prompt to restore your chat backup from Google Drive, just tap on Restore to initiate the recovery of your WhatsApp chats.
- Once the initialization process is complete, tap on Next to find all your chats. The instant messaging application will continue to download your media files including photos, videos, documents, and more on your Android device in the background.
If this method didn’t work for you then you need to follow the second method to recover your deleted WhatsApp message on your Android device.
From local backup
If you didn’t save your chat history on Google Drive then WhatsApp will automatically bring the same from your local backup file which is actually saved on your device itself. You can recover your deleted WhatsApp message using this method as well and you can follow the steps below.
- You need to open the File Manager app on your device and if you don’t have such kind of application then you need to download a file manager app from the Google Play Store.
- Open a file manager application and navigate to the /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases or Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Backups.
- You will get a list of backup files, copy the most recent backup file and paste the same in the Databases folder which will be available in the internal storage of your existing or new device.
- Now you need to uninstall WhatsApp and install it again on your Android device then log in using your registered phone number.
- When prompted, tap the Restore option to recover your deleted WhatsApp messages.
Note: Your phone’s internal storage will automatically save the last seven days’ WhatsApp history in local backup files and the same is created every day at 2.00 am and saved as a file.
So this is how you can recover deleted WhatsApp messages on your Android device. If you find any issues then do let us know in the comments section below and we will be happy to help you.
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