How to Backup/Restore WhatsApp Chat Messages and Photos on iPhone

To keep your messaging life in pace you must keep a backup of all your messages and other data including photos. For instance, in the event that you are a WhatsApp user, and you reset your device or uninstall the app, you’ll lose all your data. Of course you can reinstall the app later, yet without a backup, you will need to begin once again starting from scratch.

Making a backup of your WhatsApp chat messages and photos was very much hectic process during the initial versions of the app. Users had to manually copy the app installation files and folders to some safe place on their PC or cloud. Luckily, with time, the folks at WhatsApp have made it more simple and basic.

With the latest version of WhatsApp, you get to make a backup directly from the app. At the same time users can backup their data automatically utilizing a set period of time. So here we’ll be looking at the steps on both the backing up and then the restoration of your messages and photos in WhatsApp.

How to Backup WhatsApp Chat Messages and Photos on iPhone

Making a backup will make a copy of your WhatsApp chat messages. The backup will also include all media shared to your iCloud account, however WhatsApp does not supports sent and received videos in the backups, as of now.

Step #1. To make a   backup  of your WhatsApp data, first of all open the app and tap on the Settings tab at the bottom.

Step #2. While in Chat Settings, tap on Chat Backup and then select the Back Up Now button to instantly backup your chat messages and photos.

Step #3. Alternatively you can turn Auto Backup on and define a schedule for the loop.
Step #4. That’s it you have the backup!

How to Restore WhatsApp Chat Messages and Photos from Backup on iPhone

The backup you made using the steps above will be stored in your iCloud account. To restore that backup, follow these steps.

Step #1. Before you do anything else, double-check that you’re logged in using using the same Apple ID which was used during making the backup.

Step #2. If not already installed, install WhatsApp on your iPhone and launch it.

Step #3. Use your phone number to sign in to WhatsApp and keep in mind that to use the same phone number you were using prior.

Step #4. Upon signing in, you’ll be asked to restore the backup from iCloud.

That was all you needed to know, and before you click some other link, there’s a tip from iGeeksBlog. Since WhatsApp does not saves videos in backups, you can store them locally and sync with iTunes. Alternatively you can also upload them to some cloud storage services.