Have you ever deleted photos, videos, etc. from a WhatsApp chat group to free up space, but it deleted the entire WhatsApp conversation history? And we often receive requests for help from WhatsApp users about restoring WhatsApp chat messages they accidentally deleted. In this article, we will provide some effective ways to restore deleted WhatsApp messages from iPhone.
If we have backed up your WhatsApp before, we need to check the backup date, make sure that the deleted WhatsApp messages has exist in the backup, please read the solution 1. If you don’t find any backup, please read the solution 2.
Solution 1. Restore deleted WhatsApp messages from a backup
About iCloud backup: many iPhone users report that they have two WhatsApp iCloud backups on their iPhone. One is the entire iCloud backup for the iPhone device, and the other is the WhatsApp iCloud backup in the WhatsApp settings, and they don’t know which one to choose to restore. But the fact is, if you turn on WhatsApp iCloud backup in WhatsApp settings, iPhone iCloud backup will not contains your WhatsApp iCloud data. You need to delete WhatApp application and reinstall WhatsApp application, and then restore from WhatsApp iCloud backup.
Tips: Please extract and backup your new WhatsApp data before deleting WhatsApp application, Otherwise, when you restore the old WhatsApp data, you will lose the new WhatsApp data that is not backed up. At this time, you cannot back up to iCloud, it will overwrite the old iCloud backup. Here we recommend using WhatsApp Pocket - which is a third-party application to backup, extract all WhatsApp data on the iPhone device before restoring.
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Connect your iPhone with a computer, and then run WhatsApp Pocket to scan the iPhone device, select WhatsApp chat messages, contacts, media files, call history and more to save.
Solution 2. Restore deleted WhatsApp messages from WhatsApp database
When you don’t have any backup, you still can restore deleted WhatsApp message in WhatsApp database with WhatsApp Pocket, it can scan deleted WhatsApp messages from the iPhone device. Connect your iPhone with a PC or Mac, and run WhatsApp Pocket.
After scanning and reading WhatsApp data, there will be a Chat Hex Data button in the result view. If you still remember any keywords about the deleted WhatsApp messages, it will help you find and search deleted messages in the hex view.
It looks a bit messy, but it doesn't affect what we want to find. (Click Chat Hex Data -> Click Edit With New Window ->” control + F” add keyword to search each info. )
1. Create a new blank file with TextEdit
2. Press “control + F” to search deleted information by key words. You can search a few simple character or part of name in Hex preview, it will match more results.
3. When you find the right information, choose to copy the whole block of information content, and then paste it into the new document file
4. Press “ control + G” to find next block about this key words, or “ control +F” to search new key words.
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