WhatsApp automatically makes backups every day at 3 AM and stores them in the WhatsApp folder of your Android phone. This folder is either located in your device's internal memory or external SD card. Depending on your settings, WhatsApp could also make a backup to Google Drive. To restore the most recent backup, you will need to uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp.
If you need to restore older messages, check out "Restoring older (less recent) backups".
During the installation process, you will be prompted to restore your message history. Choose Restore to recover your chats.
If you are not prompted to restore your messages, it could be that:
In any of these cases, there is no way for us to restore the messages for you.
Before attempting to restore messages, please note:
WhatsApp/Databases
folder is most likely located in your device's internal memory.We also recommend:
msgstore.db.crypt8
in your /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases
folder. Save this file as msgstore.db.crypt8.current
so you do not get it confused with other backup files during the restoration process.Note: Your backup files are saved in the /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases
folder. This folder may be located in either your device's internal memory or external memory.
To restore from a local backup, follow these steps:
msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt8
to msgstore.db.crypt8
You will now be able to see your restored messages. If you want to revert the restoration, simply change the backup filename back to what it was, rename msgstore.db.crypt8.current
to msgstore.db.crypt8
, and follow these steps again.
If you are trying to restore messages from Google Drive, please read this article.
Learn how to restore messages on: iPhone | Windows Phone | BlackBerry | Nokia S60 | BlackBerry 10
Cheers,
WhatsApp Support Team