How to Recover the Chat History of WhatsApp from Smartphone

WhatsApp also called WhatsApp Messenger, is a cross-platform mobile application that supports Android phones, iPhone phones, WhatsApp Messenger, Windows Phone phones, Blackberry phones, and Symbian phones. You can send messages, pictures, and information such as audio files and videos. You can directly use the information in your phone address book to let WhatsApp automatically connect you with your contacts. Those who have installed WhatsApp will automatically appear in the "Archive" list , like a friend list.While enjoying the convenience of communication brought by WhatsApp, you may also face the accidental loss of chat history. When cleaning data, some important chat records may be deleted by mistake, or data may be lost due to equipment damage, water ingress, etc. Today I will teach you a way to restore the chat history of Whatsapp.

If the individual information or pictures in the chat history are deleted, you can ask the chat object to send it to you again. However, if a large number of chat records have been cleaned up and there is no backup, you need to use the help of third-party data recovery software.

If you are an Android smartphone user, be it Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC, or others, you can use Android Data Recovery to directly scan lost data, including but not limited to Whatsapp Chat History, WeChat records, photos, videos, contacts, etc. Even if you can't view the data on your Android phone at all, you can still try this Android Data Recovery to deeply scan the hidden data.

About Android data recovery software:

- Android Data Recovery: Safely recover deleted data from Android phone and tablet.

- Broken Android Data Extraction: Professionally fix and extract files from broken/froze Android phone.

- Android Data Backup & Restore: Selectively and flexible backup and restore Android Data.

- Preview and selectively restore Android phone before recovery.

- Suitable for accident deletion, factory reset, white screen, black screen and more.

Follow the detailed steps to view how to recover the Chat History of Whatsapp from an Android phone.

Steps to Undelete WhatsApp Messages for Android

Step 1. Choose recovery mode

Download, install the Android recovery software on your computer, finish the setup process and launch it, choose the feature of "Android Data Recovery" on homepage, you will see the below interface.

Step 2. Enable usb debugging

Connect your Android phone to the computer and turn on usb debugging on Android phone, if you have opened it before, you can skip this step.

• 1. For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"
• 2. For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
• 3. For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"

Step 3. Choose data type

You will see many data type on new windows, just only tick "WhatsApp" and "WhatsApp Attachments", then click "Next".

Step 4. Install FoneGo

The software will prompt you to install FoneGo on your Android, follow the instruction to install it. After that, you will get some request to access Android photos, videos and more, click "Allow/Authorize/Grant" to allow the software control your phone.

Step 5. Restore you need

The software will take some time the scan your Android storage for deleted and existing data, you will see all WhatsApp and attachments, you can preview each WhatsApp messages in detail on the scan result, you can switch "Only display the deleted item(s)" to view erased Whatsapp chats, mark all Whatsapp chat history you want and click "Recover" button to get them back.

If you are using an iPhone, you can use iPhone Data Recovery program to find lost data. iPhone Data Recovery is an excellent and professional iOS file recovery tool that can fully meet your demands. This excellent software offers three recovery modes to choose from: Scan and Recovery Directly from iPhone Device, Extract from iTunes Backup, and Restore from iCloud Backup. All three modes are previewable to selectively recover the data you need. It is designed to help iOS users to recover different file types, including contacts, photos, calendars, messages, call logs, safari bookmarks, videos, voice memos, WeChat data, WhatsApp data, etc. You can choose to restore specific files or export all data. In addition to recovering data, it also allows you to freely transfer iPhone data to your computer.

When a file is deleted on the iPhone, only its entry in the file system is deleted. Systems are not immediately wiped clean, but they can be overwritten with new data. Therefore, if you don't have any backups, you need to deeply scan your device with iPhone Data Recovery ASAP to get back your deleted data before it gets overwritten.

Steps to Undelete WhatsApp Messages for iPhone

Step 1. Choose recovery mode

Download, install the iOS data recovery software on your computer and launch it, there are several features on the interface, you can choose the feature of "iPhone Data Recovery", the software will go to default mode "Recover from iOS Device". Link your iPhone to the computer, unlock your iPhone and press "Trust" on iPhone screen, the software will detect your iPhone and show some iPhone info on the screen, tap "Start Scan" button to scan iPhone storage.

Step 2. View and recover WhatsApp

Wait for some time, the software will finish the scanning process, all data type will display on left panel, including photos, videos, contacts, text messages, audios, whatsapp, voicemail, voice memos, call logs, wechat, qq, viber, line and more, tap "WhatsApp" and "WhatsApp Attachments" and preview related WhatsApp chat history on the right, switch "Only display the deleted item(s)" to preview deleted WhatsApp chats, mark all WhatsApp chat history you want and click "Recover" button to get WhatsApp chats back.

Notes: If you want to extract iTunes or iCloud backup, you can switch to "Recover from iTunes Backup" or "Recover from iCloud Backup", it can help you to access iTunes or iCloud backup and selectively restore data you want.

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