How to get whatsapp messages
How to Recover Deleted or Missing WhatsApp Messages
Do you need to recover deleted or missing WhatsApp messages? It's certainly possible, depending on the situation.
Below, you'll learn how to recover deleted WhatsApp messages on your iPhone or Android device. We'll then teach you how to set up an advanced WhatsApp backup plan to ensure you never lose any of your WhatsApp messages again.
Understanding WhatsApp Chat Backups
In order to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages, you must have enabled Chat Backup in the app's settings. To reach this, tap the Settings tab. It's on the bottom bar of the iPhone app; on Android, open the three-dot menu at the top-right and choose Settings.
From there, head to Chats > Chat backup. Here (under Auto Backup on iOS and Back up to Google Drive on Android), the app offers several backup frequencies (along with the option to encrypt your WhatsApp backups):
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Off
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On Android, WhatsApp makes a local backup every night, but this won't help you if you lose your phone. This is why cloud backups are vital.
WhatsApp deletes older backup files as you create new ones. The iPhone app only keeps the latest backup file, while the Android version keeps "up to the last seven days' worth" of backup files. Keep that in mind as you choose the right backup frequency for your needs.
By having daily auto-backups, you'll be able to easily recover WhatsApp messages soon after deleting them. On the other hand, weekly auto-backups will allow you to go further back in time to recover deleted WhatsApp messages, at the expense of losing recent chat messages.
For a more advanced backup plan for Android devices, scroll down to the "An Advanced WhatsApp Backup Strategy for Android" section below.
How to Recover Archived Chats in WhatsApp
Before we look at recovering deleted WhatsApp messages, there's a chance that you might have just archived a missing chat, not deleted it. But what's the difference?
Archiving removes the chat from your list, allowing you to hide conversations that you're done with for now.
You can unarchive a chat at any time to access it again, and archiving doesn't delete anything in the chat. Conversely, deleting a chat erases its contents, so they're no longer accessible to you.
On iPhone, when you archive a chat, you can immediately reverse the archival by shaking your device and choosing Undo to recover the archived chat. But even if you miss this, it's easy to retrieve archived WhatsApp chats later.
To unarchive a WhatsApp chat on iPhone:
- Scroll up in the chat list (swipe from top to bottom) until Archived Chats appears.
- Tap on it, then swipe from right to left on the chat you want to restore.
- Hit the Unarchive button that appears.
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To unarchive a chat on Android:
- Scroll to the bottom of the chat list and tap Archived chats (X).
- Press and hold on the chat you want to recover.
- Tap the unarchive icon at the top-right, which looks like a box with an upward-facing arrow.
How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages
Wondering how to get back deleted WhatsApp messages after backing them up? You can restore your WhatsApp backup by simply uninstalling and reinstalling WhatsApp on your device.
When you reinstall the app, you will be prompted to restore your message history from the backup file. Tap Restore and you'll retrieve everything from the latest backup. Make sure to do it when prompted, as you can't restore the backup file later.
This method of recovering deleted WhatsApp messages works on both Android and iPhone, as long as you have a backup. Keep in mind that you can only recover backed-up messages within your selected auto-backup frequency, however.
For instance, if you've set the app to back up daily, you can recover any deleted chats before the next daily backup occurs.
But if the app has made a new backup since you deleted certain messages, they're lost for good.
How to Recover Deleted Media on WhatsApp
Hopefully, restoring your backup file allowed you to retrieve any deleted media from your chats. If that didn't work, however, read our guide to recovering deleted photos from WhatsApp.
On Android, you can simply open a file explorer app and navigate to /WhatsApp/Media. From there, simply sift through the folders until you find the deleted photos you want to recover.
On iPhone, you should have a backup copy of images saved to your device if you have the Save to Camera Roll option enabled at Settings > Chats in WhatsApp.
Check the above guide for additional methods of media recovery.
How to Recover Older Deleted Chats in WhatsApp
Getting deleted messages back after a new WhatsApp backup has run is slightly more difficult. Your success will depend on your selected auto-backup frequency.
Note that the below strategy only works on Android devices, since the OS lets you access local backup files. If you're using an iPhone, your only other method is to restore an iPhone backup that you made before deleting the WhatsApp chats. There are third-party apps that claim to help you recover WhatsApp chats, but they aren't cheap and offer no guarantees. Whether you use these is up to how much you value the missing messages.
Before we dive into the process, here's an overview of restoring older WhatsApp chats on Android:
- Open a file explorer app on your Android device.
- Navigate to /WhatsApp/Databases.
- Rename msgstore.db.crypt12 to msgstore-latest.db.crypt12.
- Rename msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12.
- Uninstall WhatsApp.
- If Google Drive backups are enabled, open Google Drive, slide out the left menu, tap Backups, and delete the WhatsApp backup file.
- Reinstall WhatsApp.
- When prompted, restore from the backup file.
How to Restore Older Deleted WhatsApp Chats on Android
As mentioned before, WhatsApp on Android retains several days of chat backup files. One is, of course, the latest chat backup. The others, depending on your auto-backup frequency, could be one day or many days old. In addition to the Google Drive cloud backup, WhatsApp stores these backups on your device's local storage.
Open your device's file explorer app (Files by Google is a good option if you don't have one installed), and navigate to /WhatsApp/Databases. Depending on your device, the WhatsApp folder may appear under /sdcard/, /storage/, Internal Memory, or similar.
Within that WhatsApp folder, you'll find the various chat backup files. The latest one is named msgstore.db.crypt12, while the others look like msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.
1.db.crypt12. As you'd expect, YYYY-MM-DD represents the year, month, and date (respectively) that the backup file was created.
To retrieve WhatsApp messages deleted sometime between two backups, simply do the following:
- Rename msgstore.db.crypt12 to msgstore-latest.db.crypt12. This changes the latest backup file, since you're about to give an older backup its name in order to restore it.
- Next, rename the msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 file that you want to restore to msgstore.db.crypt12.
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After this, uninstall WhatsApp. If you've enabled Google Drive cloud backups, open the Google Drive app, slide out the left menu, and select Backups. You'll see a WhatsApp backup file with your phone number in it. Tap the three-dot Menu to the right of this and choose Delete backup to erase it.
Doing this prevents WhatsApp from using the backup file in Google Drive instead of the local file you want to restore.
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Now, reinstall WhatsApp from the Play Store. During the setup process, you'll be prompted to restore from the backup file you've just tweaked—it will show as X days old instead of the most recent backup file. Confirm restoration from this file.
That's all you have to do in order to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages from older backups. Once you've restored those messages, feel free to start using WhatsApp as normal again.
How to Export Retrieved WhatsApp Messages and Return to the Latest Backup
When you walk through the above, you'll lose any messages created since the backup you restored. If you only performed that process to restore a few deleted messages, and don't want to lose recent messages, you can export the retrieved chat messages and then restore WhatsApp to the latest backup.
You'll have to run through the entire process again, but it's not difficult.
To export messages, open the chat containing the messages you want to save. Tap the three-dot Menu button at the top-right, followed by More > Export chat. If the chat has media, you'll see an option to export Without media or to Include media.
Including media will add all recent images as attachments, which obviously increases the size of the export file. You can export up to 10,000 messages with media, or 40,000 messages without media.
After you make your choice, choose an app on your phone to share the text file (and attachments, if applicable) containing your messages. You can email this to yourself, add it to cloud storage, or similar. Repeat this for any other chats with messages you want to save.
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Once you're done exporting, follow the steps in the above section again to access your WhatsApp backups.
When you come to renaming the backup files, reverse the process:
- Rename the existing msgstore.db.crypt12 (which contains the messages you retrieved) to msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12, using today's date. In case there's already a file with today's date, use DD.2 instead.
- Next, rename msgstore-latest.db.crypt12 (the latest backup created when you started) back to msgstore.db.crypt12.
Uninstall WhatsApp, delete your Google Drive backup again if needed, and reinstall the app. After you restore from backup, your latest chats will reappear. The messages you exported won't appear inside WhatsApp, but you can at least see them in the text file whenever you need them.
An Advanced WhatsApp Backup Strategy for Android
Because you can easily view and edit WhatsApp chat backup files on Android, it's easy to manipulate them. Renaming them allows you to keep as many backup files as you want.
All you need to do is rename a backup in the msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 format to something else, such as oct11.db.crypt12 or 2021-June-Backup. Because this file doesn't use WhatsApp's naming convention, it's now protected from WhatsApp overwriting it.
Consider creating your own backup file in this way once every month or so. That way, you won't lose tons of messages if you have to restore from an older backup. For even more safety, you should copy these backup files to cloud storage or your computer so that they're safe in case your phone stops working or you lose it.
Recover WhatsApp Messages to Preserve Memories
As you can see, it's fairly easy to recover deleted WhatsApp messages. However, this is only the case if you've backed up your messages ahead of time. This is why the advanced backup strategy is worth setting up if you're an Android user. iPhone owners don't have as many options.
Now that you know you won't lose any WhatsApp messages in the future, it's a good idea to discover some of WhatsApp's other cool features that aren't immediately visible.
How to recover WhatsApp messages
The more we use WhatsApp in our daily communications, the more chance we are storing crucial information in those chats. It could be something mundane like a doctor’s appointment time or something serious like an agreement to buy a high-value item or proof of a debt from someone. It could even be chats from a now-deceased loved one that you don’t want to lose. Whatever it is, if you accidentally delete any of it, you need to be able to recover those WhatsApp messages.
Read more: How to use WhatsApp — a step-by-step beginner’s guide
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The answer to recovering WhatsApp messages is a bit drastic, but the only effective method nonetheless. You have to uninstall WhatsApp from your phone, reinstall it, then restore all of your messaging history from a backup. Assuming you haven't backed up after deleting the crucial messages, WhatsApp will reload all your messages, including the deleted ones.
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- How to recover deleted messages on Android
- How to recover deleted messages on iPhone
Note: Before proceeding, remember that if you delete a message — and then back up your archive — those deleted messages will then be wiped in that backup. At that point, the messages will be unrecoverable. So if you have deleted a message you need to recover, make sure any automated backups are immediately canceled — and don’t back up anything manually!
How to recover deleted messages on Android
First, delete WhatsApp from your phone, then reinstall it. You will have to do the whole setup again with your phone number and verify the number. You also need to have your two-step authentication number ready if you had that set up with the previous installation.
Once you have verified your number, it will tell you if it has detected a backup on Google Drive. If it has, it will invite you to restore it.
If you tap SKIP, bear in mind that you will not be able to restore from Google Drive without uninstalling and reinstalling again. But you can select SKIP if you intend to restore from a local backup. More on that in the next section.
Your backup will now be downloaded to your phone and restored. How long it takes will depend on the size of your archive and your internet connection speed.
Once the backup has been completed, you’ll be asked to fill in your display name and enter your two-factor authentication code again. Then your messages will appear on the screen.
Restoring from a local backup
If, instead, you have backed up your WhatsApp archive to your device’s local storage, or an SD card, this is how you can restore it.
Use a file manager such as Google Files to access your phone’s internal storage. Find the WhatsApp folder — the location varies from device to device, so you may have to do a bit of hunting. When you find the folder, go to Databases, and you should see a file named like this.
The name of your file will vary slightly.
Change its name so it has the word BACKUP in it, so msgstore_BACKUP.db.crypt14. Find the file in that folder that you want to restore (likely the most recently dated one) and change its name to the previous file. In this case, it would be msgstore.db.crypt14.
Now uninstall WhatsApp, reinstall it, and go through the initial setup again. When it comes time to restore a backup, since there’s no Google Drive backup to detect, it will detect the local storage version instead.
Restoring from an earlier backup
If you have more than one backup stored on local storage or SD card, you can opt to leap-frog over the most recent backup and choose an earlier one instead.
The method here is virtually identical to the previous method, except each file in the Databases section will have a date attached, such as msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt14. Earlier backups may have crypt13 or crypt12 at the end, but you shouldn’t change this number.
All you need to do is select the one you want to restore and remove the date so it is renamed, in this case, msgstore.1.db.crypt14. But before you do that, make sure the file that already has that name has BACKUP added to the name. You obviously can’t have two files with the same name.
Now go through the reinstallation process of WhatsApp, and select Restore.
How to recover deleted messages on iPhone
Since an iPhone doesn’t support SD cards or restoring from local storage, the only way is through an iCloud backup. In many ways, this greatly simplifies the whole process.
It is the same as restoring an Android phone from Google Drive. Uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp on the iPhone. Set up and verify your number again. Select Restore, and it will detect your iCloud backup, where you can then get everything to reset.
Read more: How to find and change your WhatsApp phone number
FAQs
There is no official method from WhatsApp, as Google Drive-based WhatsApp backups are incompatible with iOS devices.
Again though, many paid third-party apps claim to be able to do it. Take these claims with a pinch of salt, though.
You need to have a backup of some description. Because of end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp doesn’t keep copies of your messages on its servers. Plus, from a cost point of view, it’s cheaper to leverage Google Drive or iCloud as backup options. If you haven’t backed up to the cloud, you’ll need to have a backup in your internal storage or SD card. But this only applies to Android devices.
A new function in WhatsApp allows you to read someone else's correspondence
There is not a single more famous, popular and widespread messenger on the market than WhatsApp, and it strives to do literally everything that is generally possible, if only as many people as possible use his branded services, finding such the best and most attractive among all that even exist at all. A communication service like WhatsApp has extremely wide functionality, and all of them are available completely free of charge, that is, you don’t need to pay anything for them, which, in turn, makes this whole offer as attractive and profitable as possible.
The launch of this messenger happened in 2009year, and a lot of time has passed since then.
As you can easily and simply notice, this messenger has very wide functionality, since with its help, at least in the latest most recent versions, you can communicate by text messages, make voice calls, make video calls, chat in group chats , share your location, and at the same time, in addition, perform a whole host of various other actions without experiencing any difficulties and difficulties. All personal data of users, as the administration of this software assures, is reliably protected using end-to-end encryption, that is, absolutely no one can access them, and this must be taken into account by everyone one way or another.
However, in reality, everything is far from being as good as in words. Security experts have found that the feature recently added to this messenger makes it easy and simple to read someone else's correspondence, making it as easy and simple as possible.
In order to read the private messages of another person using WhatsApp, you need to go to https://wa.me/number, substituting the phone number of a user instead of number, but always in international format. In this case, it will be possible to see to whom exactly, when exactly and why this or that person wrote. It will not be possible to read the entire correspondence, but its individual fragments are easily and simply.
This software has a whole host of different features, and all of which it regularly pleases more than 2 billion people, all of whom actively use this messenger, finding it the best and most attractive among all existing on the market. As it turned out, you can read someone else's WhatsApp correspondence, provided that the user has such a function as "Direct Communication" enabled in the messenger settings, and it allows you to start a correspondence with another person. If you turn it off, you can thereby protect yourself from such troubles, which, in turn, everyone must take into account one way or another in order not to encounter such surprises.
Earlier it was reported that the WhatsApp messenger has received a feature that everyone has been dreaming of since 2009.
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How to read someone else's Whatsapp correspondence, WhatsApp messages of another person knowing the number, without a phone
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- 1 Is it possible to read someone else's correspondence in WhatsApp
- 1.1 whether special programs
- 2 work how to read someone else's correspondence
- 2.1 through browser
- 2.2 Posting by mail
Surely at least once in your life you have been strongly tempted to read other people's messages.
Of course, we do not encourage violations of someone else's privacy, but for general development, we will introduce you to the current methods that allow you to read WhatsApp correspondence. Just so you can protect yourself from them, of course.
Is it possible to read someone else's WhatsApp chat
Nothing is impossible! And this applies, among other things, to violations of the privacy of someone else's correspondence. But with WhatsApp, things are not so simple.
Do special programs work
Not so long ago, just three years ago, anyone could download a free utility and get access to another person's correspondence, just by entering his phone number. Now this security hole is securely closed.
WhatsApp developers have added strong encryption, so attackers will not be able to intercept messages. More precisely, they will intercept, but it will not work to decrypt. End-to-end is set as the encryption type - that is, no one except the sender's and recipient's devices will be able to read these messages.
It is believed that the encryption update was related to the Apple incident - the FBI forced the company to hack terrorists' phones. This excited the public, and everyone became more serious about maintaining the secrecy of correspondence.
Therefore, if someone offers you to download a program for money that supposedly allows you to read WhatsApp messages, do not believe it. Since 2017 this is not possible. The same applies to utilities that offer access to the phone via Bluetooth, such as BlueMesCrack. Even if you connect to a person’s phone, you won’t be able to read the messages - you will see character sets that cannot be deciphered by the layman.
How to read someone else's correspondence
From this we conclude that an ordinary user will be able to read someone else's correspondence only if he has the phone of the person of interest in his hands. “Well, it’s so uninteresting,” many will sigh. - with a phone in hand, you can read the correspondence without any tricks.
And they will be wrong! After all, it is unlikely that you have the opportunity to quietly steal a smartphone of a person of interest for an hour or two. We will describe several ways in which an attacker can gain access to all the necessary dialogs in just a minute.
Through a browser
You can connect the victim's account to the browser version of WhatsApp:
- Go to web.whatsapp.com. This is the official website of the app.
- Make sure "Stay signed in" is checked under the QR code. Otherwise, you will be kicked out of the session after the first break in reading.
Take the victim's phone and go to "Settings" - WhatsApp Web. The application will ask for access to the camera - allow it.
The desired item is located in the root settings folder Scan the QR code on the site using the victim's phone. Immediately after that, the smartphone is automatically synchronized with the site. You will have at your disposal full access to correspondence - both archived and current.
Note that this method requires the victim to be connected to the Internet. As soon as she loses the connection, you will lose (temporarily) access to updates of correspondence .
If the victim's phone goes offline, you will get this errorSending by mail
If an interesting correspondence is very long, and there is absolutely no time for reading, you can send it to your mail. To do this:
- Exit the list of chats and swipe the desired one to the left.
- Click More.
- Select Export (iOS) or Send Chat (Android).
Enter your mail and send an email with a .zip attachment - this is the archive with correspondence.
The archive contains a .txt file that can be read by any text editor. Of course, it will not be updated with new messages - you can only read what the interlocutors discussed before the “hacking”.
The chat will display the names of the interlocutors, as they are recorded by your victim In order not to declassify you, you should delete the outgoing letter.
The deletion method is approximately the same for all mail applications:
- Go to the "Sent" folder (not "Outbox" - there are letters that have not yet been sent).
- Swipe your last message to yourself to the left.
- Select "Send to Trash". Make no mistake and do not archive it - in this case, the message will remain in the sender's archives. What if he wants to check them out?
How to protect yourself from espionage
If you do not want to become a victim of such a violation of personal space, we strongly advise you to install password or biometric protection on your smartphone. So, even if an attacker gets your smartphone, you can always be sure of the safety of your data.
To check if someone is following you on your PC, just open WhatsApp Web in the Settings app. If the app does not turn on the camera to search for a barcode, then someone has already connected on behalf of your WhatsApp Web account. In this case, you will see the last connected devices.
