Quick Answer: How to Backup Whatsapp on Android?
Contents How to Backup Your Whatsapp Chats to Google Drive Launch Whatsapp from Your Home Screen or from the App Drawer. Tap the Menu Icon on the Top Right of...
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How to backup your WhatsApp chats to Google Drive
- Launch WhatsApp from your Home screen or from the app drawer.
- Tap the menu icon on the top right of the screen.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Chats.
- Tap Chat backup.
- Tap Google Drive settings to choose the frequency with which you’d like to backup your chats.
- Tap Account.
How do I restore WhatsApp chats?
To restore a less recent local backup
- Download a file manager app.
- In the file manager app, navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases .
- Rename the backup file you want to restore from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12 .
- Uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp.
- Tap RESTORE when prompted.
How do I transfer WhatsApp to my new phone?
- Copy your WhatsApp conversation backup file into this folder.
- Now start WhatsApp on your new phone and verify your phone number. You should now get a notification that a message backup was found. Just tap Restore, and you’re done. After a few seconds, all of your messages should have appeared on your new device.
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