How to Restore WhatsApp Chats on iPhone from iCloud Backup

WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp for short) is a cross-platform instant messaging software that supports iOS, Android, Windows and other operating systems. Messaging, voice calling, video chat and other communication functions can be realized immediately without adding friends. This application uses the information in your phone address book to automatically connect you to your contacts. Contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger installed will automatically appear under Favorites, similar to a list of friends.

From the WhatsApp's Settings, there's a chat backup option to help you back up your WhatsApp data to iCloud Drive, which you can back up on your old iPhone data and then restore them on your new iPhone. It's important to note that backing up your data to an iCloud drive using this method requires you to turn on the iCloud Drive option on your old and new iphones first.

Now, let’s check the steps of how to restore WhatsApp Chat on iPhone from iCloud backup.

Make sure your iPhone is successfully connected to the Wi-Fi network.

For older iphones, go to Settings and tap your name.

Find iCloud and open iCloud Drive.

Open WhatsApp and tap Settings > Tap Chats > Select Chat Backup.

Click the "Backup Now" option.

Make sure the backup is performed last.

Connect your new iPhone to a Wi-Fi network.

Go to iCloud in Settings and turn on the iCloud Drive option.

Download and install WhatsApp on your new iPhone.

On new iPhone, log into the account with the same phone number you used on your old iPhone.

When you see the app ask you to restore your chat history from iCloud, click the Restore Chat History option.

Once that's done, you'll be able to view WhatsApp messages on your new iPhone.

How to Recover iCloud Backup without overwritting iPhone Data

If you've backed up your iPhone's WhatsApp Data to iCloud and you want to restore them, but don't want to overwrite the data in the original phone, you can use iPhone Data Recovery to extract the backup to your computer. iPhone Data Recovery supports recovery of entire backups or specific files. For many people, it is often only necessary to restore some data, not the entire iPhone backup, so you can preview and select the data you want to extract from the backup.

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Step 1. Choose recovery mode

Download, install the iPhone data recovery program on computer and finish the setup process, then launch it, there are four features display on main windows, choose "iPhone Data Recovery", the software will go to default recovery mode "Recover from iOS Device", switch to "Recover from iCloud Backup", then enter your Apple ID and password to login iCloud account on the interface.

Step 2. Extract iCloud backup

After logging successfully, you can tap "iCloud Backup" option and click "Next", then the software will list all iCloud backp files, you can see backup date, name, size and more, choose one backup contain the data you want and click "Download" to get it to PC, then click "Scan" button to extract it. If you want to extract the newest iCloud backup, you can directly tick data type contacts, photos, videos and others to extract after logging successfully.

Step 3. Restore data

The software will take some time to extract iCloud backup, after that, you can see files type on left sidebar, including photos, videos, contacts, text messages, notes, call logs, voicemail, voice memos, documents, whatsApp, kik, line, viber, wechat, qq and more, you can tap "WhatsApp" and "WhasApp Attachments" to review whatsApp chat history on scan result, choose all whatsApp messages you want and click "Recover" button to restore data.

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