How To Recover Deleted Whatsapp Texts, Photos, Videos

Whatsapp is messaging application that is available for Android, iOS and windows mobile platforms to stay in touch with almost all of your friends without paying much anything to your service provider.

One of the biggest privileges that we need from any messaging and emailing service is whether it could let you recover any of your deleted messages. And the fact that Whatsapp lets you recover deleted messages, images and videos that have been shared does make it a pretty solid app.

This is true that most of Whatsapp users are not aware of this fact that this messaging service takes backup of all the shares stuff every 24 hours and it keeps the backup files intact for last 7 days. And hence this helps you to use those backup files to restore things.

So below are the two ways to recovery lost Whatsapp data

Method 1: The first method is very simple and pretty straightforward way to restore deleted Whatsapp stuff. All you need to do is uninstall the app and install it back. This would actually use all the backup files and restore whatever it can.

Method 2: This app stores its backup files by the name, msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt. Below are the locations where you can find these backup files for respective OS:
Android: /sdcard/Whatsapp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt iOS: net.whatsapp.WhatsApp/Documents/ChatStorage.sqlite
Assuming that you have the backup file now, first thing that you need to do is launch a web service, Recover Messages which would actually get you going in this whole journey to recover stuff.

 

 

Click on the Select SQLite File, choose the backup file, click on I Accept (only after reading terms) and then on Scan button. It would take some time, depending on backup file size and your internet speed, and would list all the contents.

Now, click on the appropriate tab to recover the lost data.