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With over 200 million active users, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in India. When you switch phones and install WhatsApp on a new phone, you may not want to start a new WhatsApp instance. All of us want to switch our WhatsApp chat histories to the new phone. You may never want to lose sensitive WhatsApp conversations that contain vital information.
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How to backup and restore WhatsApp chats on your Android smartphone Either you are using WhatsApp for all official purposes, or just using the app to stay connected with your friend and loved ones. Perhaps you never want to lose important WhatsApp chats that may hold crucial information.
If you want your chat history to remain intact even after uninstall or reinstall the application due to some plausible reason, or you are switching from an old smartphone to a new one. The ideal way to do this is to have backups of your chats and media for all future reference. At Tech guru our motto is to help people with the latest guide to give them ease of tech-device uses. Hence we are presenting step by step guide to backup and restore WhatsApp chat and the way of doing it on smartphones. Let’s first know How ToBackup Your WhatsApp Chats on an Android device: Open the Whatsappapplication, on the top right side you will see three vertical dots. Click on it In the drop menu box, an option "setting" will be visible. Tap on Settings Then click on “Chats” At the very bottom, you will find the “Chat Backup” option just above the “Chat History” option. Tap on Chat backup and it will show you an option of Google Drive Setting. Afterward, select the “Backup on Google Drive” option. Further, you will receive the option of backing up both chat as well as videos shared via the app. In case you want a complete backup of your media too, just tap on “include videos”.
In the next screen you will be asked for the backup frequency which is “never, only when I tap ‘back up’, daily, weekly, monthly Choose the option as per your need Next, you need to add your Gmail address on which you want the backup to be stored. Finally, tap on the Backup button, and all your chats will be stored on your Gmail account. How to restore your WhatsApp chats on an Android smartphone: Either you uninstall WhatsApp on your present phone after taking the backup, or you are just switching to a new phone, this guide will help in understanding how to restore your old WhatsApp chat on your current or new Android smartphone.
Once you install WhatsApp on your existing or a new phone, just log in to the WhatsApp account by inserting your previously registered phone number with the app. After you do that, you will be prompt by Whatsapp giving you an option to restore previous chats. If you want to restore follow below. On the prompt section from Whatsapp tap on to find and restore the backup from your Google Drive. After which you need to “give permission” to allow WhatsApp to check for existing backup Select the account on which you have previously taken the backup of your conversations at Whatsapp Once you select the account just tap on Restore Once you are done will all the above steps, you chat will easily get restored and you will be able to access all your previous conversation on the WhatsApp.