Do you use Often WhatsApp Messenger to Share Pictures,Videos & Text Messages with Your Friends from your Mobile Phone. Did you lose or delete those files accidentally in smartphone’s . Want to Retrieve/ Recover the deleted or lost Whatsapp Messages,Files & Pictures ?

How to Retrieve & Restore WhatsApp Deleted/Lost data & Message

It’s very simple Process to retrieve the Lost data from WhatsApp Messages on your Mobile Phone. You Just need to follow the few steps which are give below so that you can recover all the deleted files from WhatsApp.

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Ways to Recover WhatsApp Deleted/Lost files :

WhatsApp is a famous messaging app which are available for all popular smartphones mobiles Os like Android, iOS,Windows & Blackberry.  Even WhatsApp was introduced to low end Mobile Phones like Nokia Asha , Moto G  etc..

Restore WhatsApp Messages
Restore WhatsApp Messages

There are two ways to retrieve the Lost files from WhatsApp

1. Recover Old WhatsApp Data using  using WhatsApp :

The Old WhatsApp data can be taken using WhatsApp itself. It has a feature of capturing & storing backup of the data (files) from your Phone for every 24 hours and stores it on Memory card. So it’s Very simple to recover and the get back the data/Files that are deleted from WhatsApp accidentally.

Steps to Get back Deleted Data On WhatsApp : 

Follow the steps to get back the lost data on WhatsApp accidentally.

Step #1: Uninstall the WhatsApp Mobile Application

Step #2 : Re-install it.

Step #3 : While the WhatsApp get re-installed . It will prompt ‘Restore message history’

Step #4: Select ‘Restore’ option , Now all the old data will be retrieved from your memory card of mobile

Note : The drawback of the default solution is that you can’t  retrieve data that is deleted more than a week ago using the default method

2. Software to Retrive & Restore  Deleted Files from WhatsApp

Final Method would be the external software for recovering the lost files. The disadvantage of this method is that it can done only in computer , you Can’t do it on your Mobile Phones.‘Recover Messages’ – is a software tool which will get all the lost data from WhatsApp

Steps to Get back Deleted Data On WhatsApp : 

Step #1 : connect Your mobile to PC.

Step #2 : If you Mobile  device is not iOS. Go to ‘/sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt’ and copy the file to PC

Step #2 : If You device is iPhone(iOS) user then ‘net.Whatsapp.Whatsapp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite’ and copy the files to PC

Step #3 : After Copying, go to ‘Recover Messages’ and click the ‘Select SQLLite file’ > Browse and attach the file that has been copied on your computer.

Step #4 : Then, check the Option ‘I agree the terms of use’ and click on ‘Scan’ button.

Step #5 : Based on the  size of the Whatsapp database & speed of your Internet connection it will process

Step #6 : After Scanning is done. You will have an option to get back the recover the lost data.

Important Note : If you restored your deleted data ,then all the chat history messages are lost or deleted 

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25 Responses

  1. I didn’t delete the whole conversation, but manually deleted few messages for a particular friend. But I need to retrieve those deleted message. Plz suggest me options to recover those selected messages for a friend in my whatsapp messanger

  2. I deleted WhatsApp messages from my Nokia Asha 310 model. How to retrieve my old whatsapp Messages from my mobile ? Thank you.

  3. Accidentally delete my all WhatsApp messages. i m trying to get and restore it back. can you Please help me?

  4. I deleted a conversation on Sunday night 03/16 and tried to retrieve it on 3/23. I uninstalled the app and did what your article said but the conversation never come back. What can I do now to get back the Whatsapp messages? I have a Samsung galaxy

    1. I can find the Bottle Neck Situation Over here 😛 Try with the external Software to retrieve the deleted whats app Messages over a week. Please Let us know if you find any solution for it so that we may share to readers with this aritlces

  5. I bought a new phone iPhone 5s,and I removed my sim card from my iPhone 4S into the 5s and put a different SIM card in the 4s and lost my WhatsApp charts and videos.how can I retrieve everything I had on my what’s app. It’s because I changed the phone number on the phone.can I get them back when I use the same number on that 4s. i really need your help for retrieving my WhatsApp Messages

    1. Iam sure the Backup data will be available on the Old Phone’s Memory card. Put your Old Memory card in your new iPhone 5S. Follow the the default solution provided in the article. you will get back the whats App charts and videos for sure. Please revert us in case of any queries.

  6. Accidentally deleted whatsapp photos from my phone. Is it possible to get it back? Ps I did not do a back up for it. Thank you 🙂

  7. In fact, we also can use the 3rd-party software to recover WhatsApp messages, contacts from ios devices. I ever used a free tool to get back deleted WhatsApp messages from my iPhone 5S, its name is Free WhatsApp Recovery

  8. Unfortunately my whatsapp database folder got deleted while formatting the SD card now is there anyway we could restore the whatsapp DATABASE folder back.
    Most of the file recovery tools is only helping in retrieving pictures and documents but not the actual folders.
    Please suggest.

  9. Sir, my android phone was stolen and I have gotten a replacement but don’t know how to get my whats app chat history back. kindly assist please. Thanks.

  10. I deleted my watsapp messges by accdent
    26Agust i dont know how to get them
    I have lots pic and and video. I need them back.
    If you can help
    Thank you

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