Now when you get WhatsApp on your new device, you will be prompted to restore old chats from the iCloud. You also get an option to include or exclude videos in this case. Here too you can pick between manually backing it up or automatically letting it happen weekly or monthly.

Click on ‘Chats' and then click on ‘Chat Backup'. Go to your Apple ID and turn on iCloud if you do not have it on. That way you can pick up exactly where you left off.įor iPhones the process of backing up chats on WhatsApp is just as easy. It is advisable that you backup the chats on your old phone before you start using WhatsApp on the new phone. Now when you load WhatsApp on your new phone it will prompt you to recover your old chats and media from Google Drive. If you choose to do it automatically, WhatsApp will backup your chats weekly or monthly as you have chosen without you having to do anything. The next time you want a backup you will have to do this whole thing again. Here you can pick whether you want to backup your chats manually or automatically (weekly, monthly etc).īacking chats up manually will have WhatsApp creating a backup on Google Drive that very moment. Go to Settings and then click on ‘Chats'. To transfer old chats to your new phone, you need to open WhatsApp on your old phone and tap on the three dots on the top right corner of the screen.

The easiest way to transfer chats is to back them up on Google Cloud or iCloud and then restore them on your new phone. WhatsApp chats have not only important contacts and information at times, but also media attachments that might be important for you to carry over to your new device.

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