How to View and Recover Deleted Messages on WhatsApp

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps for users to send messages, pictures, video calls, and more to communicate with families, friends and workmates. However, people may lose their WhatsApp chat history due to various reasons. If the user deletes the software or clears the chat history by mistake, it may cause the loss of important information in the chat, including contacts, documents, pictures, etc. Thankfully, you still have the chance to retrieve deleted WhatsApp chats.

How to Restore WhatsApp chats from Google Drive

WhatsApp doesn't save your chats on its servers, but creates a database on your Google Drive or your device's internal storage. If WhatsApp has backed up chats to your Google Drive account, you can restore accidentally deleted WhatsApp chats from Google Drive.

If you want to switch to a new device, log in to your Google account first. Users can select to back up their chat history. After logging in and verifying your WhatsApp account, WhatsApp will prompt you to restore chat history from Google Drive. Click "Recover" to complete the process. Then click "Next" to find your chat history.

If you don't find chat history in Google Drive, WhatsApp will pull the same from local storage. But this way is not suitable for new devices.

How to View Deleted Messages on WhatsApp by Reinstalling WhatsApp

Normally, WhatsApp messages, chats, images and more are automatically backed up to iCloud if the icloud auto-backup feature on your phone is turned on. So, when you want to view deleted messages on WhatsApp, you can try to get them back from iCloud backup. This method of recovering data has certain risks and should be operated with caution. If needed, you can read deleted WhatsApp messages on iPhone by following the guide below.

Step 1: Delete WhatsApp from iPhone. Press and hold the WhatsApp icon and tap the X or delete app option to delete the software.

Step 2: Find and reinstall the WhatsApp app in the App Store.

Step 3: Open WhatsApp and log in with the same account. In this step, the program will automatically detect the backup on iCloud. Click Recover Chat History to get back deleted WhatsApp messages.

How to Recover WhatsApp chats from iPhone directly

iPhone Data Recovery app allows you to see and recover deleted WhatsApp messages on both Windows PC and Mac. Support any frequently-used iOS data recovery, including app data, contacts, notes, text messages, photos, etc.

It is worth noting that iPhone Data Recovery not only supports data recovery directly from Apple devices, but also supports data recovery from iCloud and iTunes backups safely and selectively.

Main Features about iPhone Data Recovery:

- Best iOS data recovering and backing up tool to recover and backup iOS data to PC or Mac.

- Three recovery mode to recover iPhone data: Recover from iOS device, recover from iTunes backup, recover from iCloud backup.

- Recover files over 22+ types such as photos, videos, contacts, messages, attachments, call history, notes, documents, whatsApp, Line, Kik, Skype, Webchat etc.

- Fix iOS system and get it back to normal.

- Transfer WhatsApp messages between two iOS devices, back up or restore WhatsApp messages in one-click.

Step 1. Launch iPhone Data Recovery and Select the Mode

Launch iPhone Data Recovery app after downloading and installing it on your computer. Select the mode of "Choose Recover from iOS Device".

Step 2. Connect iPhone to Computer

Connect iPhone to computer with USB cable. Make sure the iPhone is successfully recognized by the computer.

Step 3. Scan iPhone Data

Click the Start Scan button to allow the program to scan and find out all types of iOS files on your iPhone. When the scan is over, all your iPhone data will be listed in categories.

Step 4. View and Recover iPhone WhatsApp Chats

On the left sidebar, click WhatsApp to view WhatsApp messages, including WhatsApp photos, contacts, chatting history, and more. Both deleted data and existing data in the scan results are supported for recovery. Choose the data you want to recover and export then to your computer by clicking “Recover” button.

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