Top 5 ways to recover WhatsApp messages from iPhone

Are you like to hang out with friends on WhatsApp? If you give a "yes", you may have faced with the situation of WhatsApp messages recovery. Let's check out the top 5 ways for how to get back lost or deleted WhatsApp messages for free.(On iPhone)

Top 5: uninstall, and reinstall to restore WhatsApp

This is the basic way to restore WhatsApp data. You can find the uninstall option in WhatsApp setting or you can directly delete it on home screen of iPhone.When you reinstall WhatsApp on your iPhone, a messages windows will pop out to ask you whether resotre the data, you just need to tap "restore".The WhatsApp will help you restore the chat backup.

Top 4: Restore from manual backup files

You may manually backup your WhatsApp chat messages regularly. When you lost WhatsApp chat history, you can restore from manubackup file. You can choose the bakcup file when you enable restore feature in WhatsApp setting.

Top 3:Try to rename the backup files

A trick about WhatsApp backup we need to know- the auto backup maken by WhatsApp just will keep last seven days chat history. Over 7 days, those old backup file will be overwritten by the new. So, when you want to keep those backup files to restore in someday, you can rename the backup file with a file management app. for example, you can choose the backup file you want to keep for a long time, and change the name from "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt" to "msgstore.db.crypt".

Top 2:Recover from iTunes or iCloud

There is no doubt that, iTunes and iCloud is the best helper for iOS device, we can use them to recover WhatsApp messages from iPhone. Just go to iTunes to restore backup when you lost WhatsApp chat history. Or you can go to WhatsApp Settings > Chat Settings > Chat Backup, here are the backup files made by iCloud.

Top 1:Recover WhatsApp chat messages with recovery tool

The top 5- top 4 ways are the default ways provided by WhatsApp officially. Indeed, we can use other the 3rd-party useful tools to get back WhatsApp messages from iPhone for free. The most important is that backup recovery from default ways will overwrite the present state of WhatsApp, it means you can get back old messages, but at the same time you may lose the new. And the specific messages in backup file are invisible, thus you have no choice! A good WhatsApp recovery software can solve these problems, you can use it extract and recover WhatsApp messages from iPhone to computer. If you are interetd, you can know more here: http://www.any-data-recovery.com/topics/whatsapp/extract-iphone-whatsapp-messages-for-free.html


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How to extract WhatsApp messages from iPhone for Free

WhatsApp has been used as the common communicated tool in our daily life than SMS in the mobile phone. Aftter long-time using, there must be many chat messages or other data in your WhatsApp. In this case, you will feel that the WhatsApp run slower and slower, besides, when you want to see the older chat history with your friends, you need to press" load more" everytime. That's very annoying, right? The best way to make the WhatsApp run faster is cleaning the data in the WhatsApp.
However, many chat history messages are very meaningful or interesting for us, and we don't would like to delete the data. In fact, we can backup or extract WhatsApp messages to computer for FREE.

Way 1: Save your WhatsApp chat messages with E-mail

Officially， Whatsapp provides a mail features for users to save chat messages. you just need to open the chat windows with your friends, then go to "info" in the "..." key. In the info screen, scroll down and tap email chat history.

However, you should pay attention that, your chat history may be cut off by the Windows Mail message size restriction.And this way just work when you have backup for your WhatsApp chat messages. BTW, even you have saved the messages to compueter via E-mail, the files of WhatsApp data can't be read easily in computer.

Way 2: Extract WhatsApp messages for Free with Free WhatsApp Recovery

Indeed, an useful the 3rd-party software can help us recover and extract WhatsApp messages from iPhone for free.

Free WhatsApp Recovery-No matter whether you have iPhone backup or not, you can free extract and even recover the detailed chat history.And Free WhatsApp Recovery can help you recover deleted, lost WhatsApp messages, contacts from iPhone 5S/5C/4S/4 and provides WhatsApp tips.

How to extract WhatsApp messages with tool

Mode 1: without iTunes backup:

Step 1: Launch Free WhatsApp Recovery and connect your iOS devices to computer. Then the software will detect your devices automatically.

Step 2:After detecting, you can preview the lost messages, contacts in the software.

Step 3: Choose the one you want to recover and save them as a excel or txt files.

Mode 2:with iTunes backup: 

Step 1:After Launching Free WhatsApp Recovery and connecting your iOS devices to computer, select the iTunes backup file to restore.

Step 2:After the software extract your iTunes backup, you can preview the backup in the software.

Step 3: Choose the one you want to recover and save them as a excel or txt files.