Top 4 tools to Extract WhatsApp Messages from iPhone Backup

As WhatApp achieved much popularity due to its friendly functions, most of iPhone user download a WhatsApp on their phone. May be you have lots of business done on Whatsapp and leave many important information on it. What if your WhatsApp crashes and you lose all messages? Don’t worry. This article introduces top 4 tools to extract WhatsApp messages from iPhone backup, provided that you have an avaiable iTunes backup.

iBackup Viewer Free (1 Star)

With the iBackup Viewer, you can easily extract much data including WhatsApp messages from iPhone backup. However, many of files in the scan result are not previewable. Actually, I need to recover lost WhatsApp messages but didn’t get what I want with iBackup Viewer Free.

iPhone Backup Extractor Free (2 Stars)

The iPhone Backup Extractor is a powerful data recovery tool for iPhone. You can save the WhatsApp messages from iPhone backup wherever you want on computer. The exported files will be automatically saved in the form of .xls. However, the free edition can only restore 4 database entries or 2 media files. What a pity!

WhatsApp Pocket Free (3 Stars)

WhatsApp Pocket is specially aimed to recover and extract WhatsApp messages from iPhone backup. All WhatsApp chats history and attachments can be extracted by this tool. But you can only preview the WhatsApp messages unless you buy a pro version. And the software is not so stable when running on my computer. .

Jihosoft Free iTunes Backup Extractor (4 Stars)

Jihosoft Free iTunes Backup Extractor is a powerful and totally free tool to extract data from iTunes backup. It allows you extract WhatsApp messages and attachments from iTunes backup and export them to readable formats for better viewing. Frankly speaking, its user interface is the most friendly and comfortable. The free version allows you to extract data from unlocked iTunes backup. To extract/export WhatsApp messages from encrypted backup, you need upgrade to the Pro Version.

What if you don’t have any available iPhone backup?

If you don’t synced your iPhone with iTunes before, don’t worry, you can rely on the following

two data recovery tools to recover WhatsApp messages from iPhone directly:

Tenorshare WhatsApp Recovery: It is a free tool designed to directly recover WhatsApp messages from iPhone. But you will find many repeated messages in the scan result.Jihosoft Mobile Recovery for iOS: If you are not satisfied with the free WhatsApp recovery, I suggest you try Jihosoft Mobile Recovery for iOS. It is affordable and efficiently help you recover deleted WhatsApp messages and attachments from iPhone. You are allowed to preview the data before recovery.