If you regularly use WhatsApp user, you will most likely have many active conversations, contacts, images, videos and reminders stored in the application. How would you feel if your data were lost? To ward off this threat, you will need to regularly back up your information contained on WhatsApp. Fortunately, the process isn't difficult and this guide shows you how.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Android
Step 1. After starting the WhatsApp application, press the 'Menu' button on your device
This will allow you to access the program settings.
Step 2. Find and select 'Chat Settings'
Step 3. Locate and select the 'Conversation Backup' item
WhatsApp will create a new backup of all your conversations.
Method 2 of 2: iPhone
Step 1. Use iCloud
Backing up to iPhone is very simple, as the iOS operating system allows you to use iCloud as a storage medium. WhatsApp will be backed up regularly, but images and videos will not be included as they would take up a large amount of space. Also you can manually backup your conversations.
Step 2. Access the WhatsApp 'Settings' menu, then select the 'Chat Settings' item
Step 3. Locate the 'Chat Backup' entry
You will find two options related to this item, relative to that of automatic backup it is recommended that the relative switch is on position '1'. This way WhatsApp will back up regularly. The second option is 'Back up now' and allows you to manually back up your data at any time.
Inside the iPhone, the backups created by WhatsApp and iCloud will not be manageable. If you want to manually manage the files related to the WhatsApp backup, you can use third-party applications, such as 'WhatsApp manager', 'Tenorshare Free WhatsApp Recovery'
Advice
- WhatsApp backup is a simple file. When you switch phones, copy this file to the memory of the new device, then use it to perform the WhatsApp recovery procedure.
- WhatsApp automatically creates a backup file every day at 4:00 a.m.
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'Email Conversation' option. Did you know that WhatsApp allows users to email their conversations?
- Access the conversation you want to forward via email.
- Select the contact name or group title in the navigation bar.
- Scroll down the list, then select the item 'Send conversation via e-mail'.
- Choose whether to attach a file by selecting the 'Attach media file' item or whether to send the e-mail without attachments by selecting the 'Without media file' item. Finally send the e-mail by pressing the 'Send' button.
