Here’s how to delete WhatsApp backup – open the Google Drive app, then app the menu bar and select Backups. From the list of backups available, tap the three vertical dots next to the WhatsApp backup and tap Delete. Next, confirm your action, and that’s how you delete a WhatsApp backup.
Have you ever wanted to start anew with WhatsApp and get rid of your old backups? Or you have damaged files after the WhatsApp backup got stuck?
I get it. Sometimes you want to start fresh but don’t want to manually delete every chat. The best solution is to delete your backups and reinstall WhatsApp.
Read on to learn how to delete WhatsApp backup from Google Drive as well as iCloud. You’ll also learn how to turn off WhatsApp backups for Google Drive and iCloud.
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WhatsApp is a messaging app that allows you to send texts, make voice and video calls, and send media files (images, videos, documents, and sounds). It is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world, thanks to it being free, easily accessible, and feature-packed.
One of WhatsApp’s main selling points is its end-to-end encryption, which means that no one, not even WhatsApp, can read your messages.
While this is the case, WhatsApp does offer cloud backups for its chats, which are saved to Google Drive or iCloud, depending on your phone.
End-to-end encryption is not available for cloud backups.
You can delete your WhatsApp backups from Google Drive or iCloud for further security, or start fresh with WhatsApp.
Google Drive is Google’s cloud storage service. It allows you to back up, restore, store, and sync data across devices. WhatsApp also allows you to perform automatic cloud backups that are stored in Google Drive.
Here’s how to delete those backups:
Click the three horizontal dots next to your WhatsApp backup.Need more? Here’s a video showing you how to delete your WhatsApp backup from Google Drive:
Here’s a video demonstrating how to disconnect WhatsApp from Google Drive:
Deleting WhatsApp backup from Google Drive is only a part of the process.
It’s important that you turn off WhatsApp automatic backups too, so you don’t have to go back and delete them all over again.
Here’s how to do it:
Change the option to Never, and WhatsApp will no longer backup to Google Drive.If after you’ve deleted your WhatsApp Backup from Google Drive, you forgot how to set it up again, don’t fret!
Here’s a detailed guide on how to back up WhatsApp to Google Drive.
Similar to Google Drive, iCloud is Apple’s cloud storage service. You can use it to store, backup, restore, and sync data across Apple devices. iCloud is where an iPhone’s WhatsApp automatic backups are stored.
Here’s how to delete your WhatsApp backup from iCloud:
From the list of available apps, tap WhatsApp Messenger to access its backup on iCloud.Here’s a video showing you how to delete your WhatsApp backup from iCloud:
Scroll until you see WhatsApp and then toggle it off. This will turn off WhatsApp for iCloud. This means you cannot manually back up WhatsApp to iCloud.Another way to stop WhatsApp backups to iCloud is to turn off WhatsApp automatic backups to iCloud. Turning off WhatsApp for iCloud stops you from making automatic or manual backups. However, if you want to keep manual backups available but stop the automatic backups, then you can do so in WhatsApp’s settings.
Here’s how it’s done:
Tap the auto backup option to adjust the frequency of WhatsApp automatic backups.Here’s a video showing you how to turn off WhatsApp Backup for iCloud:
You can delete WhatsApp backup. If you have an iPhone, you will need to delete your WhatsApp backup from iCloud. However, if you have an Android, you will need to delete your local WhatsApp backup, as well as the backup stored on Google Drive, to delete all the backups.
WhatsApp backup is stored in different places for iPhones and Androids.
For iPhone, the backup is stored on iCloud. However, Android devices have WhatsApp backups in two places. The cloud backup is stored in Google Drive, while the local backup is stored on the phone in the /WhatsApp/Databases folder.
If you delete a WhatsApp backup, you will not be able to use it to restore your WhatsApp chat history on a new device. You also cannot use it to restore your chats on your current device if you uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp, since no backups would be available.
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Whether you’re using Google Drive or iCloud, it’s important to know how to deal with your WhatsApp backup.
That’s why I wrote this tutorial because while the process is simple, not many people know how to delete their WhatsApp backups if they need to. Your backup can be used by hackers to steal your personal information or even impersonate you if it’s restored on a different device.
You can delete the backup from both platforms or only from one. In the latter case, you can use the other platform to eventually restore the backup if you need it. For example, you can learn how to transfer WhatsApp backup from Google Drive to iCloud here.
After you’ve deleted your WhatsApp backup, it’s important to stop WhatsApp backups as well, so you don’t have to go back and delete them again.
I hope this tutorial helped you take care of your WhatsApp backup issues. Be sure to let me know in the comments how the process went for you.
Also don’t forget to share this tutorial with your family, friends, and followers, so they can know how to delete WhatsApp backups too.
WhatsAppgenerally, it automatically backs up chats to the cloud (i.e. online), so as to allow you to recover conversations in the event of reinstalling the app or replacing the phone.
However, if you need to delete the most recent backup made by the app, you can proceed with the instructions below.
On smartphones Android, you can delete the WhatsApp backup present on Google Drive using the app of the same name already pre-installed on your smartphone. You can recognize its icon on the home screen as it has a triangle with green, yellow and blue sides. If you don't find the Google Drive, you can download it for free from the Play Store, by pressing the button Install and waiting for the completion of the operation.
When you're ready to proceed, launch the Google Drive and wait for it to be logged in with the same Google account configured on your smartphone. Once this is done, click on the icon ☰ located at the top left and choose the item Backup from the screen that is shown to you.
Now, among the items you see, locate the one named Backup WhatsApp [phone number] and tap on its icon ⋮, which you find alongside. At this point, press the button Delete backup, in the pane that appears, to delete the backup.
This operation is essential in case you want to delete a backup already uploaded to the Google Drive cloud. In addition, you can also proceed to delete the backup present locally, in the smartphone memory, following the suggestions that I will indicate in the next lines.
First, you need an app to browse the folders in the phone memory. For this, you can use the default app (named for example File Management), if present, or download the free app Google files from the Play Store, by pressing the button Install and waiting for the download and installation to complete.
In my example, I'll tell you how to proceed with the app Google files to delete the local WhatsApp backup.
Launch the app in question and, on the main screen, tap on the tab Shop by Department, which you find in the area below.
Once this is done, scroll through the various items that are presented to you and select the one named Internal Memory. Then access the folders WhatsApp > Databases to view all the files related to the backups generated by the app WhatsApp.
The last backup made by WhatsApp is simply named msgstore.db.crypt12, while older ones also have the date in their name. To delete a backup, press the ▼ icon, which you will find next to it, and choose the option Delete twice in a row. Easier than that?
If you own a iPhone, you can delete the backups that WhatsApp saves on iCloud (Apple's cloud storage service) by proceeding directly from the iOS settings panel.
To do this, launch the app Settings, through his icon with l'ingranaggio that you find on the home screen, and select the items [your name]> iCloud> Manage space> WhatsApp Messenger from the screen that opens.
At this point, all you have to do is press on the wording Delete dati, in the screen that is shown to you, and then confirm the backup deletion operation using the button Delete.
If you want to act from PC, in order to delete the WhatsApp backups saved on Google Drive o iCloud Drive, proceed as I am about to show you.
Please note: if you were wondering, even if you use the WhatsApp client for PC, no chat backup file is saved on your computer, as all the data is still managed by the app on the smartphone. The PC client is just a "repeater" of what happens in the smartphone app.
delete WhatsApp backups from Google Drive via PC, you need to go to the Google cloud storage website and log in with the same account used on the smartphone on which WhatsApp is installed.
Once this is done, in the left sidebar, select the item Backup copies, to view all backups stored on Google Drive. Then locate the backup file related to WhatsApp, called Backup WhatsApp [phone number], click with the right mouse button on it and, through the box that is shown to you, select the option Delete backup.
At this point, confirm the operation by pressing the key Delete in the screen you see, and that's it.
WhatsApp backups saved on iCloud can be deleted directly from iCloud Drive, via the desktop client for MacOS and for Windows.
In case you are in possession of a Mac, iCloud Drive it is already pre-installed on the system. To start it, you have to click on theicon with bitten apple located at the top left and select, from the menu that is shown to you, the item System preference. At this point, in the panel you see, choose the item iCloud.
For WindowsInstead, you have to download and install the official iCloud Drive client by taking the appropriate one .exe file from Apple's official website, installing it and then logging in with your iCloud account. I told you in detail about how to download and install iCloud Drive in this guide of mine.
Once the iCloud Drive client is open, regardless of the operating system you are using, click the button Manage, which you find at the bottom right, and choose the item WhatsApp Messenger give riquadro che visualizzi.
Then, to delete the WhatsApp backup, press the button Delete documents and data and then confirm the operation by pressing the key Delete.
Now that you have deleted the WhatsApp backup from the cloud space associated with your smartphone, you may need to disable this feature, so as not to keep the content of your conversations and, therefore, not restore them in case of reinstalling the app or formatting of the mobile device.
To do this, launch the WhatsApp on your phone and, if you use Android, press the ⋮ icon located at the top right and select the item Settings from the menu that opens. If, on the other hand, you use a iPhone, fai tap sull 'icon with l'ingranaggio (Settings) located at the bottom right.
At this point, select the items Chat> Chat backup and, if you use Android, set the option Backup to Google Drive su Mai.
If, on the other hand, you have a iPhone, set the option Automatic backup su disable.
This way you have disabled the automatic backup of WhatsApp. To learn more, see my guide on how to disable WhatsApp backup.
Many messenger users clean up their correspondence quite thoughtlessly, simply deleting, at first glance, unnecessary. But a predictable situation occurs: it turns out that something important has been deleted, and now it cannot be returned.
Moreover, such cases occur all the time, giving users a lot of inconvenience. And whatsapp backup is provided just for such cases.
It allows you to restore your message history, contacts and other information of your account that was changed earlier. Moreover, in this way you can not only recover deleted messages, but also completely restore your account.
This is very useful in many cases. For example, if you do not have access to the device with which you used the application earlier. At the same time, the correspondence stored there is very important for you.
Also, thanks to this, you can restore previously deleted contacts. We talked about this in more detail in this article.
Of course, you don't have to make a WhatsApp backup yourself: by default, it is created automatically. And it works like this: the application copies all the data every day (at 03:00 at night).
They are stored either in your phone's memory or on an SD memory card. It depends on which way you choose to store the data. In this way, all data and messages can be restored. Of course, those who were in the application before 3 am.
You can set up WhatsApp backup to Google Drive. You can find instructions on the WhatsApp website.
Let's say right away that it will be easiest to view the WhatsApp backup on phones with the Android operating system, because the key that is required for decryption is stored there as a regular file. You can find it on your device in the data/data/com.whatsapp/files folder. It is generated for the first time when the user makes a copy of the data in the cloud, so if you actively use this messenger, you definitely have the key.
Also, logically, you will need the database itself. It is stored in the msgstore.db.crypt12 file. And finally, you need special software. We will consider three options of varying complexity that will allow you to effectively decrypt a database with your correspondence and other important data.
The application server contains duplicates of your files for some time, but the system will certainly delete them. Depending on the settings (you can change them), the dialog will be sent to Google Drive or to the bowels of the phone memory. From there, no one bothers to erase everything superfluous. Here's what you should know about the location of the archive:
If a chat is accidentally deleted, the loss can be unzipped. This is done in settings mode.
Similar operations are available to both application owners and users working through the web version.
The phone saves a local copy of the chats in the WhatsApp root folder, Databases subfolder. If there is no SD card in the smartphone, the root folder is located at: Device menu - Explorer - Internal memory - WhatsApp. If a memory card is connected to the gadget, then the information should be sought in the device menu - explorer - sdcard - WhatsApp.
Auto-save uses iCloud. This is a cloud service where you can place all the necessary information.
All your chats can be moved to iCloud if the following technical requirements are met:
Whatsapp Iphone backup is stored in the cloud.
On Android, backups can be stored in the phone's memory.
The information is stored in Google Drive. "Android" creates backup copies of correspondence daily in automatic mode. If there is no “Google Drive”, then everything is placed in the phone’s memory on an external drive (SD card).
Backups on this phone model happen to OneDrive or SD card. As an option, correspondence with loved ones can be copied to your home computer, and from there to Google Drive.
The simplest solution is to send materials to your own e-mail box.
Virtual storage is created on a Google or iCloud account, depending on the gadget platform. The reserve is located in the cloud application management settings. You need to go to Google Drive (for Android) or iCloud Drive (for iPhone) - Menu - Settings - Application Management - WhatsApp.
Saving data will allow you to restore chats in case of replacing the phone or reinstalling the program. WhatsApp offers to set the frequency of saving: automatically daily, weekly, monthly, manually when you press the "Back Up" button or never copy, as well as whether to use Wi-Fi or mobile Internet connection. It is important to remember that the copy is not end-to-end encrypted.
To create a reserve in whatsapp you need:
The application will start copying the message history, displaying a loading bar on the screen. At the end of saving, the inscription “Last backup” will appear, the download time locally and in virtual, the amount of downloaded data.
Video backup is a separate issue. To do this, in the settings menu, select the green checkmark "Download video".
Android messages are copied to your smartphone or Google Drive cloud. Saving to the cloud requires creating and / or connecting a Google account to WhatsApp. Creating a reserve on the gadget requires a certain amount of free internal memory. The frequency of savings is set in the "Backup of chats" item. Under the "Back Up" button there is a sub-item "Google Drive Settings", where you can configure the frequency of automatic backup information, select an account and a network.
iPhone offers to save information on the gadget or in iCloud Drive. To put data in the cloud, you need to connect virtual storage to WhatsApp.
To do this, select iCloud in the device settings and enable iCloud Drive inside it. Open the messenger and click "Copy" in the chat options.
You cannot view reserved conversations manually. Google Drive prevents the user from doing anything other than deleting data.
Google Drive is a cloud storage where archives of your conversations are sent. Evil tongues say that the cloud is practically not protected from unauthorized intrusions. Therefore, we will tell you how to delete a WhatsApp backup from this resource. Steps you should take:
Can also be operated from a PC. See what the interface would look like in this case.
If you are unable to back up to Google Drive, please try the following:
If you are unable to restore a Google Drive backup, please try the following:
Note: Google Play Services is only available for Android 2.3.4 and above. Errors sometimes occur when creating a backup. This may be due to both a lack of mobile Internet traffic or an interruption in the Wi-Fi signal, or a lack of phone memory, or virtual storage is not connected to the messenger.
If, when restoring the history of correspondence, it is impossible to find the saved information due to the freezing of the messenger search engine, restarting the smartphone, connecting to Wi-Fi or reinstalling the application can help.
When archiving and transferring messages to an account, the error "Failed to create a backup copy" occasionally occurs.
This happens when the mobile Internet does not have enough traffic. In this case, you should connect to a Wi-Fi network and download data using it. Or this error is issued when there is not enough memory on the device. It helps to clear the cache of the smartphone or delete unnecessary files to free up space.
whatsapp backup stuck ” can obviously annoy users especially when it happens all of a sudden. Are you reading this article expecting a solution to this problem? If so, the good news is that you've hit the nail on the head! We will explain how to solve this problem without much confusion. So, keep reading and find out how to do it.
Part 1: Use an alternative method if your WhatsApp backup is stuckPart 2: Other solutions to try if WhatsApp backup is stuckPart 3: Methods you can use to restore a stuck WhatsApp backup on Android
Deleting an unnecessary archive is very simple - this technique works on both iPhones and Androids.
Go to the messenger directory through the explorer and find a file called Backups - that's what we have to destroy.
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Move up one position and send the backup folder to trash. This is where your suffering ends. However, do not forget about iPhone smartphones. It has its own atmosphere - information can be copied to the iCloud cloud service. Act like this:
Can't delete WhatsApp backup from Google Drive? Perhaps your phone did not copy it there. Check for the presence of the Backups file in the messenger folder. This is done through the conductor. When you find the file you are looking for, send it to the trash.
Many iPhone owners save their correspondence in iCloud. To get rid of the file, proceed as follows:
Whatsapp Stealth Mode: How to enable or disable the mode
Apple offers a storage management tool for iCloud, similar to the local storage check tool on your iPhone and iPad. Using it, you can see how much space is taken up by backups in general and individual applications in particular.
Open the Settings app on your device and then tap your profile at the top of the menu.
Select the "iCloud" option.
Click the Manage Storage button.
From the iCloud Storage list, select Backup.
You'll see all the iPhones and iPads associated with your iCloud account and how much storage they use. Click on a device to see a further breakdown.
You will now see the details of the last backup time and a list of apps that have backups in iCloud and how much space they use.
If you find programs that take up too much space, you can click on the switch next to the application to remove and disable backup for it.
To confirm, click on "Disable and Remove" in the pop-up menu.
Do this for a couple of applications and see if you can get back a significant amount of memory.
We recommend that you turn on backup for important applications such as WhatsApp, Messages and so on. But for media programs or podcasts, it would be better to disable this feature, especially if you're running out of free space.
You can disable and delete the entire iCloud backup for a device by swiping down the page and clicking Delete Backup.
In the pop-up window → "Turn off and delete" to confirm.
If you just want to disable iCloud backup without monitoring storage.
After clicking on a profile in Settings → iCloud.
Swipe down → iCloud Backup.
Here, simply click on the switch next to the "iCloud Backup" option.
In the pop-up window → OK.
Your current backup will be deleted from iCloud and iCloud backup will be disabled for the device.
If you want to turn this feature back on, return to this screen and click the toggle next to iCloud Backup.
On Android devices:
These steps will stop saving data to Google Drive. But if you want to start the process again, follow the same steps, choosing the period you want, for example, every day or week.
On iPhone, copying is performed in iCloud, there are 3 ways to stop the synchronization process.
When using WhatsApp:
Data will no longer be automatically transferred to the Cloud from now on. But you can resume syncing at any time.
When using iPhone settings:
In Google Drive:
There are several ways to erase the copied data. The simplest is the file manager. To remove all correspondence on Android, you will need:
iPhone owners can save correspondence in iCloud. To delete an archive, the user must:
The archive saving function is user-friendly, allowing you to copy important correspondence, it opens access to it when the necessary information is lost. But smartphone owners who are concerned about the privacy of data can erase them at any time, no matter where they are stored.
How to Delete WhatsApp Android Backup from Google Drive:
This may take up to 3 minutes. Attention! The archive is stored as long as the smartphone is constantly used. If you forget about it for a few weeks, then next to the name of the copy, the date until which the correspondence will be relevant will be affixed. After it expires, all information will be deleted.
Sometimes all messages contained in the messenger suddenly disappear regardless of the user's desire. This can happen in the following situations:
All correspondence is permanently archived. On smartphones, messages are automatically copied according to a user-defined schedule.
The easiest way to restore backups is to delete WhatsApp and download again. When checking the number, the system will offer to restore archives from Google Drive or transfer a local file.
Backup is an indispensable feature for users who want to save the data contained in WhatsApp for a long time. If information is lost, the smartphone owner will be able to restore the correspondence on their own.
If there are obstacles when copying data, pay attention to the following facts:
strong and stable signal. For example, change mobile Internet to Wi-Fi.
If the traffic package on your tariff is not enough, the connection may be interrupted and copying will not be completed.
When there is not enough space, the system may refuse to transfer data.
Free up enough space.
The messages that were backed up are in the cloud storage and in the phone memory. To delete such messages permanently, you need to delete not only all correspondence in the messenger, but also both backup copies of messages. To delete copies from the cloud storage, you need to log into your Google or iCloud account and delete the file with the WhatsApp archive in the settings. Next, go to the file messenger of the smartphone and delete the contents of the Databases folder in WhatsApp.
After completing all these steps, the user will not be able to restore his messages after reinstalling the messenger. However, all messages that have been deleted will remain with the interlocutor.
If you wish, you can agree with him and ask him to send the archive of correspondence.
Correspondence made by the user is stored only on the phones of him and his interlocutors. Thus, deleting correspondence from the phone and cloud storage means complete destruction without the possibility of recovery. To delete a backup copy of messages from the cloud storage, you must:
After that, you need to delete the local backup copies of messages on the phone and clear all chats in the messenger.
Good morning cards, video jokes, audio jokes, funny pictures - waste space.
In any case, personal photos are more valuable than replicated pictures from the Internet.
There are people who are very fond of “reposting” all sorts of videos, photos, audio and texts. These are the adepts of the “send to others” curse that alone can send you several gigabytes of meaningless data in a couple of months.
There are also groups on WhatsApp that are created just to “chat”. For one evening of lively chatter, more than one hundred megabytes of traffic can run up, which will settle in the smartphone's memory.
Clearing the history of chat groups and transfer users is performed in a couple of taps on the screen, and several gigabytes of memory are freed. Selecting photos and videos for deletion from your library will take longer.
There is usually not much valuable information in chat groups, they can be cleaned completely.
And correspondence and photos with a person who regularly sends video jokes can be saved by deleting only the video from memory.
If you want to free up device memory and delete all files stored in WatsApp at once, use the delete chats function. Remember that everything else will be deleted along with the video and pictures. For iPhone users, the deletion process looks like this:
Important!
It may take a few seconds if there are many chats. Changes are not always displayed immediately. Restart the program for normal operation.
For Android users, the first two steps are the same.
Log in, open the control panel. Then you need to select "chats", then "chat history". When you click "delete everything", a window will pop up asking you to delete all files from the phone. If you check the box, then all sent and received media files will disappear from memory, if not, they will be saved in the smartphone, but not in the application. You will have to manually delete them from your smartphone.
To prevent future difficulties, remove the autosave option in advance. This is easier than deleting a backup (such cleanings will have to be done regularly). How to disable this mode? You will have to act through the application settings. Algorithm:
Want to give up Google Drive? And there is nothing difficult in this. See how opting out of persistent copying looks like in the cloud.
To summarize. You can clean up the history of correspondence both on cloud services and on the CD-card of your own phone. If you don't like the functionality, don't use it. But remember that every night the old dialogues disappear from the memory of the mobile device.
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Delete WhatsApp backup is very easy to do. However, you should be aware that this application makes copies both on Google Drive and on your terminal's internal memory. Therefore, in this article, we will explain how to remove it in both cases.
Before deleting WhatsApp backup in Google Drive , it is important to turn off automatic creation. To do this, go to Chats , in the application settings.
Open chat settings
Click Chat backup, to continue.
Backup settings
Click on Backup to Google Drive .
Google Drive backup options
From the list of options that appear on the screen, select Never . At this time, WhatsApp will stop using Google Drive for backups.
Disable copy to Disk
Once the correct settings have been applied in this case, it's time to open Google Drive. Enter the main menu and press Backup .
View all Google Drive backups
Find a copy of WhatsApp. To see more options, click on the three vertical dots.
Backup options
Use the Delete Backup button to delete the backup.
Delete copy of WhatsApp in Google Drive
After confirmation, the copy of your conversations and multimedia files will disappear. You should be aware that it is not possible to retrieve this information later. So make sure you don't delete anything important.
In addition, WhatsApp makes a local copy of all content associated with your profile. To remove it, what you need is a file explorer such as ES File Explorer, or any other integrated system if you have one, as in this case.
