How to get back a deleted message in WhatsApp

I suggest starting with the fact that WhatsApp messages are deleted in two ways. The first method (I talked about it in this article) involves direct deletion by the sender himself, who can do this only in the first hour after sending. And the second is to automatically delete all your chats when you reinstall the application, when you move to a new smartphone, or when you change the phone number to which the account is linked.

If the message is deleted by the sender himself, there is usually no way to restore it. Unless you have time to make a backup copy before he decides to delete it. Therefore, if you suspect that the message that was sent to you can be deleted, do the following:

• Launch WhatsApp and open the context menu;
• Go to "Settings" and open the "Chats" section;

Back up before deleting the message so you can restore it

• Here, select the Chat Backup tab;
• Click "Backup" and wait for saving.

Your WhatsApp account may be blocked without your knowledge

Now, if your interlocutor decides to delete one of his messages and you notice this, you will have the opportunity to return it by restoring a backup copy. Since the copy was saved when the deleted message was not yet deleted, when it is restored, it will also be restored. Another thing is that it is usually not possible to predict in advance that the interlocutor will decide to delete something from what he wrote, unless you have some particularly strong premonition.

How to restore a backup copy in WhatsApp

Much easier things are with restoring the entire correspondence, which is deleted when you reinstall the application or change the device. Oddly enough, the technique here is about the same, only you don’t have to predict anything in advance. The main thing is to set up automatic backup in advance by linking Google Drive storage to your WhatsApp account if you have Android, and iCloud if iOS.

• Download WhatsApp and run it on your smartphone;
• Enter your phone number to which the account is linked;

You can only restore a WhatsApp backup if you reinstall the application

• Confirm the restore from the backup and select the one you want;
• Wait until all messages are restored and start chatting.

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It is very important to enable automatic backup in advance so that you can restore all your correspondence if it becomes necessary. By default, backups include text messages, voice messages, photos, but not videos. This is done to save space in the cloud. But if you want, you can enable saving videos if you think they are important to you, or if you have an active Google Drive subscription.

How to find old WhatsApp messages. When might recovery be needed? Restoring outdated versions.

Whatsapp is an application that we all actively use and thanks to which we save significant amounts on calls and SMS. Not surprisingly, the number of people who have downloaded it to their phones has already exceeded one billion. Today we will learn where the messages sent and received by us are stored, how to hide them from the screen, and also how you can view the archive in WhatsApp.

What does it mean to archive data in WhatsApp?

All messages received and sent using this service are exclusively on devices, and are deleted on the company's servers immediately after they reach the addressee. But what to do when there are too many chats on the screen? They can be archived, that is, temporarily hidden from the screen.

It's very easy to archive a WhatsApp chat. You can remove those chats that you do not use very often, as well as some group correspondence. Then, when necessary, you can view the archived chats and return them to the main page of the application again.

You should know that archiving in this case means only temporary hiding of correspondence with a person. In this way, you can neither save your correspondence as a backup copy, nor delete it.

You can read about that in our other article.

How to archive a chat and find the archived messages in WhatsApp?

On different phone models, archiving is carried out with slight differences. Below we will provide ways to archive and then search for archives on iPhone and Android. Keep in mind that when you receive a new message from a hidden contact, the archived chat will reappear on the screen.

Android

Select the chat you want to hide and long press on it to bring up the menu at the top of the screen. The archive icon looks like a white square with a green arrow pointing down inside. Touch it and the correspondence with this contact will be hidden.

To hide all chats at once, go to the WhatsApp menu and select settings. After opening the "Chats" item, tap the "Chat History" line, then "Archive all chats".

To find out what kind of conversations are hidden in your application, scroll to the end of your chat list and, when you see the inscription "Archived chats", tap it.

iPhone

To hide all chats from the WhatsApp screen, go to the app settings and tap the "Chats" line. Select the "Archive all chats" option.

If you want to hide a conversation with a certain person from the screen, select the chat you want to hide and swipe it from right to left with your finger. From the options provided, select the "Archive" option.

You can understand where the WhatsApp archive is on your iPhone by simply scrolling through the list of chats to the end, and then sliding your finger down the screen. When you see the inscription "Archive", click on it.
Several chats can be distinguished:

To find out, you can read our other article.

How to restore messages from the WhatsApp archive?

If you want to extract the chat from the WhatsApp archive again, then the following instruction will be relevant for the iPhone:

• On the page with your correspondence in WhatsApp, tap the "Search" line and enter the name of the contact in it, the correspondence with which you would like to open. Also, you can enter the content of this chat, the application itself will search.
• Swipe parallel to the desired chat and tap Archived.

You can also use another method:

• Enter the "Archive" and, scrolling to the end of the list of messages, drag down the screen with your finger.
• Swipe across the chat you want to restore.
• Click on Archived.

To understand how to open and read the message archive in WhatsApp on Android, follow the instructions below:

• Scroll to the very end of the correspondence page.
• When you see the inscription "Archived chats", tap it.
• Long press the chat you want to restore.
• A menu will appear at the top of the screen, in which the unzip icon looks like a white square with a green arrow pointing up. Touch it and the correspondence will be opened.

Read our other article to find out.

Dear readers, today we will discuss with you how to restore correspondence in WhatsApp and how to recover deleted messages. Where is your chat stored? It all depends, of course, on the type of device you are using. For example, on Android smartphones, correspondence can be copied to a memory card, internal storage, or Google Drive.

Archive with correspondence is stored in several places at once

Naturally, the choice of data storage location is in favor of cloud storage, as the risk of data loss is reduced. In the first two cases, you can be left without your information: sometimes backups on a memory card or phone are damaged.

How to recover deleted messages?

Let's say right away that for all cases a cloud storage system is used, which is set as standard by default. Copies are created daily at a specific time and kept for seven days. That is, if you logged in for the last time before your copy was created, then messages received after this time cannot be restored.

You can use the data recovery system for exactly 7 days

It is also worth considering the fact that if you created a copy, deleted the application and did not restore messages within eight days, they will be deleted. This is true for those who do not use the cloud. In order to restore the correspondence, you need:

1. Delete the WhatsApp application from your device and reinstall it on your smartphone by downloading the program from the official application store (AppStore, Google Play, and so on).
2. When you start the messenger, the utility will prompt you to enter a valid phone number. Here you need to take into account that if you write a different number from the one on which the backup was saved, then there is a possibility that the system will not offer you a backup. The same goes for cloud storage accounts, only here everything is much stricter: using a different Apple ID, for example, you will not be able to restore anything on your iPhone.
3. After entering the number and activating it, the application will offer you a return point indicating the date and its size, which you can restore. Click on the appropriate button and wait for the operation to complete. The more data is stored in the cloud, the longer this process will take. It is recommended to use .
4. After all the data is loaded, you can continue to use the messenger as usual.

If there is no cloud storage type

If you do not use the cloud type of storage for your messages and chats, then you can return the deleted data in a different way. This is relevant for users of devices running the Android operating system. For example, when transferring information to another phone. To do this, just copy the backup file stored in the /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases folder to the same folder on the new device. If the necessary information is not here, then it is likely that the data is stored in the phone itself or on Google Drive. In the first case, you need to check for documents in the same Databases folder only in the internal or main memory of the smartphone. In the second, you need to use the instructions above.

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Frequently asked questions answered

1. Is it possible to read deleted messages or correspondence? You can use the method described above. Otherwise you won't be able to read them. If they were deleted only on your device, you can ask your interlocutor to send you these messages. Please also note that you can restore the correspondence only before the program has created a new copy. You can view this time in the application settings and, if necessary, adjust it to suit your requirements. Please note that if any sectors of the memory where the backup was located are damaged, you will also not be able to return the lost messages.
2. Unable to restore chat and messages. Why? If backup was disabled in the program settings, then you will not be able to return your chats back. iPhone users should pay attention to the version of the device's operating system: correspondence that was saved in the cloud on iOS 8 or 9 cannot be restored to an iPhone running the seventh firmware. On all platforms, make sure that there is free memory for storing information. For example, if there is no space left on Google Drive for at least one WhatsApp photo, then the latest version of your chats will not be loaded there.
3. I don't use OneDrive cloud storage or Google Drive, where are my backups? They are located on a memory card or in the memory of a smartphone. It all depends on the copy settings, which should be viewed in the WhatsApp settings. There you can also find out exactly where the files are located.

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Let's summarize

Today we have learned a lot of new things in terms of using the messenger: how to restore a chat, messages or correspondence in WhatsApp. We also answered the most popular questions regarding the recovery of this data in the program. Summing up, we can briefly describe this process:

1. Uninstall and reinstall the messenger client via the app store.
2. Enter and verify your phone number.
3. Press the appropriate button to return the information.
4. Please wait for the operation to complete.

We hope our advice helped you recover the necessary data

We hope that everything worked out for you and there are no questions left. Share your successes in the comments. How do you copy messages to WhatsApp - iCloud, Google drive, OneDrive or external storage?

If you accidentally delete a WhatsApp conversation, don't worry - you can quickly restore it using an automatically created backup. Copies are created every night and stored in the memory of the mobile device. The amount of available storage space is limited, so old backup files are overwritten with new data.

Returning deleted messages

If you accidentally deleted a chat, then you need to reinstall WhatsApp and, when turned on, press the "Restore" button in response to the offer to return the lost correspondence.

Depending on the WhatsApp settings, the backup file will be restored from the mobile device memory, Google Drive (for Android) or iCloud (for iPhone). You can manually specify the storage location and the frequency of copying in which messages will be sent in the application settings.

This method may not work - there are several reasons for this:

• The memory card or chat history is corrupted.
• The backup is out of date or not stored in memory (on cloud storage).
• When reinstalling WhatsApp, a different number is indicated.

If you encounter one of the listed problems, then you will not be able to return the deleted chat. Messages are not stored on WhatsApp servers, so it's pointless to contact the support service with a request to restore the correspondence. You can ask to forward the necessary messages of the user with whom you deleted the chat in order to return at least some of the information.

iPhone owners have another option to get their lost correspondence back - you can restore the device from a backup created in iTunes. As a result of this action, the chat will take the form that it had at the time the copy was created. All SMS sent and received after this moment will be deleted. But they can be saved if you first create another file with the history of correspondence.

Restoring old conversations

If you want to restore a chat from a backup that was made a long time ago (not the latest), then you will need a file manager to find and rename the desired file. When returning old SMS, new messages will be overwritten, but it is possible to save them if you manually create a backup file (this is described in detail below).

Reinstall the application. If you are notified that your chat history has been found, click Restore.

Manual creation of a back up file

In order not to worry that deleted messages cannot be returned, you can make a backup copy of them. In WhatsApp, this is possible thanks to a special function:

Back up can be saved in the memory of a mobile device, sent by mail or placed on Google Drive cloud storage. To return the dialogs that were saved in memory, you need to uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp.

Du kannst deine WhatsApp Daten auf Google Drive und/oder einem lokalen Backup sichern. Lokale Backups werden automatisch jeden Morgen um 2 Uhr erstellt und werden als eine Datei auf deinem Telefon gesichert.

Google Drive

Du kannst deine Chats und Medien auf Google Drive sichern, damit, falls du dein Android-Telefon wechselst oder ein neues bekommst, deine Chats und Medien übertragbar sind.

Ein Backup auf Google Drive erstellen

1. Öffne WhatsApp.
2. Tippe auf die Menutaste > Einstellungen > Chats > Chat Backup .
3. Hier kannst du auf Sichern tippen, um sofort ein Backup zu erstellen. Du kannst hier auch auf Auf Google Drive sicher tippen, um die Backup-Häufigkeit einzustellen.
4. Wenn du noch kein Google-Konto angelegt hast, tippe auf Konto hinzufügen , wenn du dazu aufgefordert wirst.
5. Tippe auf Sichernüber , um das Netzwerk zu wählen, das du beim Erstellen der Backups verwenden möchtest. Bitte beachte, dass das Sichern über ein Mobilfunknetz zu Kosten für verbrauchte Daten führen kann.

Wichtige Hinweise zu Google Drive

• Das erste vollständige Backup kann eine Weile dauern. Bitte verbinde dein Telefon mit einer Stromquelle.
• Du kannst deine Backup-Häufigkeit, das Google-Konto, auf das du sicherst, und welche Verbindung verwendet werden darf jederzeit hier ändern: Menutaste > Einstellungen > Chats > Chat Backup .
• Jedes Mal, wenn ein Google Drive-Backup auf demselben Google-Konto erstellt wird, wird das vorhergehende Google Drive-Backup überschrieben. Es gibt keine Möglichkeit, ein älteres Google Drive-Backup wiederherzustellen.
• Medien und Nachrichten, die du als Backup sicherst, werden nicht durch WhatsApp "s Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung geschützt.

Ein Backup wiederherstellen oder übertragen

WhatsApp bietet dir an, deine Chats und Medien vom Backup wiederherzustellen, wenn du deine Nummer verifizierst. Tippe einfach auf "Wiederherstellen", wenn es dir angeboten wird. Falls WhatsApp kein Backup findet, könnte es sein, dass:

• Du nicht mit deinem Google-Konto angemeldet bist.
• Du nicht dieselbe Telefonnummer verwendest, mit der das Backup erstellt wurde.
• Deine SD-Karte und/oder dein Chatverlauf defekt sind.
• Keine Backup-Datei auf Google Drive oder lokal auf deinem Telefon existiert.

Hinweis : Die einfachste Möglichkeit, Daten auf ein neues Telefon zu übertragen, ist über Google Drive. Wenn du ein lokales Backup verwenden möchtest, musst du die Dateien mit einem Computer, Dateimanager or SD-Karte auf dein neues Telefon übertragen. Falls deine Dateien nicht im Ordner sdcard/whatsapp/ gespeichert werden, kann es sein, dass sie an einer anderen Stelle oder in einem anderen Ordner auf deinem Telefon liegen, z.B. "internal storgae" oder "main storage".

Um eine ältere lokale Backup-Datei wiederherzustellen

Auf deinem Telefon werden die letzten 7 lokalen Backup-Dateien gespeichert (Google Drive hat immer nur das neueste Backup). Wenn du deine Daten von einem lokalen Backup wiederherstellen möchtest, folge diesen Schritten:

1. Installiere eine Dateimanager-App.
2. Navigiere im Dateimanager zu sdcard/WhatsApp/databases/ . Falls deine Daten nicht auf der SD-Karte gespeichert werden, findest du sie wahrscheinlich auf dem internen Speicher oder in einem anderen Ordner, z.B. "internal storgae" oder "main storage".
3. Benenne die Datei, die du wiederherstellen möchtest, von msgstore-JJJJ-MM-TT. db.crypt12 zu msgstore.db.crypt12 um. Es ist möglich, dass du ältere Backups in einem älteren Format hast, wie crypt9 or crypt10. Ändere nicht die Ziffern im crypt-Teil des Dateinamens.
4. Deinstalliere Whatsapp.
5. Installer Whatsapp.
6. Tippe auf Wiederherstellen , wenn es dir angeboten wird.

Lösungen für Probleme beim Backup or bei der Wiederherstellung

Falls du Probleme dabei haben solltest, ein Google Drive-Backup zu erstellen:

1. Stelle sicher, dass du ein Google-Konto auf deinem Telefon verwendest.
2. Stelle sicher, dass du ausreichend freien Speicherplatz auf deinem Google Drive hast, um ein Backup zu erstellen.
3. Stelle sicher, dass Google Play-Services auf deinem Telefon installiert sind. Hinweis
4. Wenn du versuchst, ein Backup über ein mobiles Netz zu erstellen, stelle sicher, dass du ausreichend Daten für WhatsApp und Google Play-Services hast. Kontaktiere bitte deinen Mobilfunkanbieter, falls du dir nicht sicher bist.
5. Versuche, ein Backup über ein anderes Netzwerk zu erstellen (verwende ein WLAN, falls es mit mobilen Daten nicht funktioniert oder umgekehrt).

Falls du Probleme dabei haben solltest, dein Google Drive-Backup wiederherzustellen:

2. Stelle sicher, dass ausreichend freier Speicherplatz auf deinem Telefon vorhanden ist, um das Backup wiederherzustellen.
3. Prüfe, dass Google Play-Services auf deinem Telefon installiert sind. Hinweis : Google Play-Services sind für Android 2.3.4 or höher verfügbar.
4. Stelle sicher, dass dein Akku vollständig geladen ist oder dein Telefon an ein Ladegerät angeschlossen ist.
5. Überprüfe, dass dein Telefon eine stabile und starke Netzwerkverbindung hat. Falls das Wiederherstellen in einem Mobilfunknetz nicht funktionieren sollte, verwende bitte ein WLAN.

Erfahre, wie du Nachrichten wiederherstellen kannst auf.

Surely, many of you use the popular and convenient Whatsapp messenger, which allows you to communicate with all subscribers in your address book for free, provided that they also have this application installed. But what to do if your chat history is deleted or you accidentally erased an important message? A restore may also be required after resetting the phone to factory settings. The main thing - do not despair, there is a way out, and more about it in today's article.

How to recover messages in Whatsapp

For clarity, let's consider the recovery process in today's popular mobile operating systems such as iOS, Android and Windows phone.

Recovery on Android and Windows phone platforms

It is important to remember that the messenger automatically backs up the entire history of correspondence and places it on the built-in memory card of your phone. Therefore, in order to return all the data from this copy, simply uninstall and reinstall the application. During the installation process, you will be prompted to restore all chats. If this does not happen, then the memory card may be damaged or you are using different phone numbers. You also need to know that recovery is possible only from a backup copy no older than 7 days.

Downloading older message histories is also possible, provided that Whatsapp backup is configured and all messages are saved every 7 days. Also keep in mind that when restoring the old version, all unbacked messages will be deleted.

In order to download the required version of the saved correspondence, delete the messenger, then go using any file manager to the directory: your memory card/Whatsapp/database (there will be several, choose the required date). The copy file is named msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt, where the capital letters are the date of the backup. The required file must be renamed to msgstore.db.crypt, removing the date from its name. Then install the application again, and you will be prompted to restore all the information.

Restore Whatsapp conversations in iOS

Chat information is not stored on Whatsapp servers, so you can only restore it from a backup saved in iCloud. You can always do this operation manually to protect yourself from losing important messages.

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