WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging services on Ios platform. Keeping a

safe backup of message history is important. Now just imagine, you have had an

important chat with a friend around evening and later that night, you plan to do a

full reset on your phone. Well, you will lose that chat you had in the evening with

your friend.

With this quick tutorial we demonstrate 2 approaches to backing-up WhatsApp

messages off the iPhone.

Solution 1: Backup and Restore WhatsApp Messages via iCloud backup

Solution 2: Backup WhatsApp Messages to Computer via SynciOS Data

Recovery

Solution 3: Email WhatsApp conversations

Solution 1: Backup and Restore WhatsApp

Messages via iCloud backup

You can save your WhatsApp conversations and media to your iCloud storage using

iCloud backup. You can use this backup method in case you wish to transfer

WhatsApp conversions to another iOS device or restore your device to factory

setting. The iCloud backup process may take a while to complete, depending on your

Internet connection and backup file size.

You can make a manual backup of your chats at any time by taking a trip

into WhatsApp Settings > Chat Settings > Chat Backup and tapping Back Up Now.

How To Backup And Restore WhatsApp Messages On iPhone

This will show you the Backup size currently stored in your iCloud account, displaying

the backup details, including Messages quantities, Photos quantities.

You can also enable automatic, scheduled backups by tapping Auto Backup and then

choosing your backup frequency. You can set up how often to automatically backup

WhatsApp chats by tapping "Auto Backup" from the same screen.

NOTE: Video clips are excluded from iCloud backup, in order to free up space in the

backup. (For the typical user, a single iPhone or iPad backup should fit easily into the

free 5GB iCloud allocation. )

Restore WhatsApp messages via iCloud

If you previously backed up WhatsApp chats via the iCloud option above, you are

able to restore the messages back to the iPhone. To do so:

1. Once you install WhatsApp anew, enter your phone number and tap "Done"

2. From the next screen, tap "Restore chat history"

NOTE: the above option will only appear if you previously backed up the WhatsApp

chats via iCloud. Otherwise the button will be greyed out. WhatsApp backup is not

100% reliable. In at least one occasion we were returned the following screen

despite having previously backed up WhatsApp messages.

3. Stand-by until the WhatsApp messages are restored back to the iPhone.

The WhatsApp chat history is now restored to your iPhone.

Solution 2: Backup WhatsApp Messages to

Computer via SynciOS Data Recovery

SynciOS Data Recovery for Windows or SynciOS Data Recovery for Mac is a perfect

solution which allows to save messages and attached media offline to the PC (photos,

audio, videos are included) and in different file formats. You can view photos on your

PC and transfer them to any other portable devices. As the whatsApp conversations,

you can view the files as good-looking as they are on the iPhone.

1. Download and install SynciOS Data Recovery to your computer by clicking below

download button according to your computer system.

2. Run SynciOS Data Recovery and connect your iPhone to it with USB cord. The

program starts analyzing your iPhone information.

3. Once it’s done, click "Start Scan" button, the program will start scanning all the

data in your iPhone, the scan process will take a while depending the data of your

iPhone.

4. Once the scan is completed, all the recoverable data will be listed on the left

column of the interface, the category will be automatically checked. Select

"WhatsApp" from the the pane. You will see a list of WhatsApp conversations on the

iPhone in the interface.

5. Tick the checkbox next to WhatsApp thread on the left, this will select all

conversations at once, then press Recover button on the bottom right corner. You

can also select individual messages within each conversation by tick the checkbox

when viewing the whatsapp conversations, then click recover button.

6. You will get the prompt providing to recover solutions, simply choose "Recover to

Computer", pick a backup location, Pick a location on the PC where to backup the

messages, for example the PC’s Desktop and click Recover.

For now, the program supports backup WhatsApp messages in web page(html files).

This allows for full interactivity when displaying the WhatsApp conversations on the

PC.

7. The WhatsApp messages are backed-up at the PC location of your choice in html

files . Photos will be stored in a separate folder. Double click on the file to open the

message on the PC

8. You can now read through and interact with each WhatsApp conversation that

you backed up off the iPhone directly from your computer.

Solution 3: Email WhatsApp conversations

Sending WhatsApp messages via email is easy but not ideal as this will only generate

a TXT file containing plain conversation text which doesn’t include images or other

attachments. You can, however, send conversation images via email as individual

attachments separate from the TXT file. To send WhatsApp conversations via email:

1. Open WhatsApp and navigate to the conversation or group you wish to email in

the chat list. Swiping right on the conversations, tap “more”, then choose Email

conversation, Choose whether to attach media or not (i.e. attached photos or

videos)

An email will be sent containing the chat history saved into an attached TXT

document. If you chose to include media, all the most recent photos/videos from the

conversation(s) will also be included as individual attachments. You are only able to

send WhatsApp chats via email but not restore them back to the iPhone using this

method.

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