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You can back up your chat history using your Google Account on Android devices, or iCloud on iPhone. To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend backing up your WhatsApp data often. To learn how to back up your chats, read this article.
Tap Chat backup > Back up to your Google Account. Select a backup schedule other than Never or Only when I tap “Back up”. Select the Google Account you’d like to back up your chats to. If you don't have a Google Account connected, tap Add account when prompted and enter your login information.
Your chat history can’t be re-imported because it’s a text file and not a backup file.
While restoring from a backup can recover all of your chat data, the Chat Transfer feature allows you to transfer your full account information including all of your personal messages, photos, videos, documents, etc.
If you're moving from an Android phone to an iPhone, you can transfer your account information, profile photo, individual chats, group chats, communities, WhatsApp Channels updates, chat history, media, and settings.
It's not possible to backup or restore your chat history on linked devices such as WhatsApp on Web, WhatsApp on Mac, or WhatsApp on Windows. To back up or restore your chats, you’ll need to use your phone.
It’s currently not possible to transfer chats from an iPhone to an Android device on WhatsApp Business. Your old device will still have your data unless you wipe it or delete WhatsApp. Transferring chats by cable means transferred data doesn’t go to cloud storage.
By following these steps, you should be able to recover your WhatsApp account. Remember to always back up your chat history and take steps to protect your account if your old phone is lost or stolen.
You can back up your WhatsApp chat history using your Google Account. The cloud storage in your Google Account is provided and managed by Google . If you go over the storage limit, you’ll need to free up space in your Google Account to resume backups.
Your iPhone may automatically create backups of your WhatsApp chats, and these backups aren’t protected by WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. We recommend turning off WhatsApp in your device backup when you set up end-to-end encrypted backup in WhatsApp.
