Moving chats out of WhatsApp can be helpful in different situations. For instance, you can share the entire history of a conversation with a friend, use it as evidence of who-knows-what, or create a backup of chats in case you lose the original chats. This tutorial shows how to export or back up WhatsApp chat history and the difference between the two.
Exporting chats is a manual process that must be done every time you want to transfer one, and it must be done individually. On the contrary, backing up is an automatic process and is done for every chat on your account. WhatsApp will automatically create a backup on Google Drive (Android) or iCloud (iPhone) at the desired frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly). You can even choose to update backups manually.
Secondly, the exported chats can be read on any device. You can open them on Windows, macOS, iPhone, and Android. Once the chat history is exported, it becomes separate from the original chat, and can be viewed by anyone. But when you back up WhatsApp chats, they will connect back to the original WhatsApp account, and no one else can view them.
In a nutshell, exporting chats comes in handy when you want to send the chat history to someone else or want to import it to Telegram, whereas backing up can help you store and retrieve your chat history if you change or lose your phone.
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Tip: a second way to export WhatsApp chat history from an iPhone is “Settings → Chats → Export chat.” Tap on the chat to be exported.
Note: you can only export WhatsApp chat history from mobile the mobile app. The WhatsApp web and desktop apps don’t support this feature. But if you scroll up to the first message in the chat and press Ctrl + A (Windows) or Cmd + A (macOS), the entire chat will be selected.
Use the copy-paste commands to transfer the selected chat to a text editor.
Before we jump to the steps, please keep in mind the following things about WhatsApp backups on Google Drive.
To back up to Google Drive, follow the steps below:
”Before backing WhatsApp chats to iCloud, the iCloud Drive feature must first be enabled in the Settings app.
Note: you only need to perform the first three steps before backing up your chats for the first time.
If you want WhatsApp to automatically create and update the backup in the future, select the desired frequency under the Auto backup option instead of the Off option.
By default, videos aren’t included in the backup to reduce the size of the backup. If you want to include them as well, enable the toggle next to “Include videos.”
A few things to note about WhatsApp backups on iCloud:
Download the chat history in the “txt” format as shown above to export to, your PC.
Open it in Word or a similar editor and click on “File → Save as” and select a destination. Choose PDF from the “Save as” drop-down box. Alternately, open it in Google Docs and go to “File → Download → PDF.”
You can export a chat multiple times. However, exported chats with media will only have up to 10,000 of the latest messages. Without media, you can export up to 40,000 messages.
You can restore chats from a backup while registering the WhatsApp account. Install WhatsApp on a new device and make sure you are logged in to the same Google (Android) and iCloud (iPhone) accounts on the phone that were used for the backup. Register with the same phone number you use for WhatsApp. You will be asked if you want to restore the backup. Tap on “Restore.”
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" How can I export WhatsApp messages from my phone and print part of WhatsApp documents directly?"
- A User from Quora.
WhatsApp is regarded as the most popular instant messaging tool that's commonly used around the world. The application can be downloaded from the App store and used conveniently on smart phones or tablets by associating it with a phone number. You can use it to make a free call, send messages and files to your friends, family or business clients. When you switch to a new phone or just want to print some messages from WhatsApp, it is necessary to download WhatsApp messages.
In this article, we are going to show you how to download WhatsApp messages and export them.
When it comes to WhatsApp export, the dr.fone - WhatsApp Transfer is one of the best data management solutions to save and export WhatsApp chats, photos, videos and various files from one phone to another.
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Step 1 . Launch dr.fone on your computer and connect your iPhone to the computer. Next, please tsp on "WhatsApp Transfer" below.
Step 2 . Select "WhatsApp" on the left side of the page below and then hit the button "Transfer WhatsApp Messages".
Step 3 . Now you can choose to export WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android or iPhone. Here we show you how to export WhatsApp data from iPhone to Android. Connect both of your iPhone and Android phones to the computer with USB cables, and then after they are detected, please move ahead to click on "Transfer".
Step 4 . The program will then export WhatsApp chats, images, videos, files and more from your iPhone to Android.
If you want to export the WhatsApp files on Android, we recommend you our "Recover" feature within the dr.fone. With this method, you can export both existing and deleted WhatsApp messages on Android.
Step 1 .
Open the dr.fone and connect your device to the PC. To start with, please choose the "Data Recovery" option below.
Step 2 . To export WhatsApp data, you can tap on " Recover Phone Data" and continue to click on "Next" button in the interface.
Step 3 . The dr.fone will scan all of WhatsApp messages on your Android phone and show you the following page after the scan process is over. On the screen below, you can download and export WhatsApp messages you need and restore them to PC. After that, you will be able to read and print the WhatsApp messages and documents.
Of course, you can also try the WhatsApp built-in email feature to export WhatsApp messages. This is an appropriate solution if there are not so many WhatsApp messages that need to be exported. Now let's take a look at some tips on how to operate this for both iPhone and Android.
Step 1 . Open the WhatsApp application and select Settings.
Step 2 . Select Email Conversation from the options and choose the WhatsApp conversations you want to download.
Step 3 . You can choose to attach the media files or send the chat history without the media files.
Step 4 . Send the specific WhatsApp chats you want to your email successfully.
Step 1 . Go to WhatsApp < Settings < Chats and Calls < Chats Backup.
Step 2 . To email the history, select Email chat.
Step 3 . Select the conversation you want to download. Choose the "attach the media files" or "send the chat history without the media files" when a pop-up appears.
Step 4 . Send and save the WhatsApp chats to the specified email address.
With an ability to export WhatsApp data successfully and quickly, the dr.fone offers an efficient and time-saving solution that ensures the WhatsApp chats and other types of files are saved without losing any data. What's more, the exported files are readable and printable on your computer.
07/30/2020
Author: Olga Dmitrieva
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In the popular WhatsApp messenger, you can save entire chats and export them to other devices.
How to do this, we tell in the article.
Making a copy of a chat is very easy:
In some countries, it is no longer possible to export WhatsApp chats directly from the application. This happened after the American company Blackberry sued Facebook because it saw violations of its patent rights in the group's applications. Blackberry won the case, which led to the removal of this feature. If you are in Russia, then everything will work for you - nevertheless, we suggest considering alternative methods for exporting chats and other data from WhatsApp. nine0003
Android backup can be obtained using Google Drive.
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It allows you to save important dialogs with the possibility of further restoration. This is done with a backup. The messenger also provides for the export of individual chats to text files. How to save the chat history and restore dialogs - the instructions from the article will tell.
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All this will help to keep the history of the most important dialogues and groups.
This functionality is relevant for owners of Android smartphones. The system for creating local copies with chat history is implemented here. And it works regardless of whether the user wants it or not. The history is saved daily at 2 am, it stores the correspondence for the last seven days. The task is simple - find the files you need and save them. nine0003
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db.crypt12 format, their names indicate the creation date. Each of them stores the history of correspondence for the last seven days. The storage location is the /WhatsApp/Databases folder in the internal memory or on a memory card. To save your chat history, do the following:
To restore the history, rename the file to msgstore.db.crypt12, upload it to the /WhatsApp/Databases folder on your smartphone, reinstall WhatsApp and run the recovery suggested by the messenger.
The previous method requires some fiddling with files and may seem too heavy for inexperienced users.
It is much easier to set up saving to cloud storage - Google Drive for Android smartphones and iCloud Drive for iOS smartphones. The frequency of saving is user-defined:
It is also possible to save the chat history up to the last message manually.
Saving history is configured in the menu "Settings - Chats - Chat Backup". Setting instructions:
Saving history is configured - it will be created at the specified frequency of 2 am. If there is no Internet connection at this point, the save will be delayed until a connection is available. But subsequent messages will not be saved - only those that were sent / received before 2 am, when the last archiving was performed.
Do not trust cloud storage and local copies on your smartphone - store chat history on your computer's hard drive. This is done by exporting chats:
The chat history file is in text format and can be opened with plain Notepad.
