I had an android phone in which I totally broke the screen so I couldn't use it. I had an insurance replacement so before I sent the phone to the insurers, I fortunately was able to mount and copy the whole OS to my computer including Whatsapp and all its data.

Is there a way of porting this to a new phone so all Whatsapp and pictures/vidoes are available? To add insult to injury, I had been using the Google Drive backup. But unbeknownst to me, it turns out that if there is no activity on the backup then Google will silently delete it without warning. I found this out when I tried to see if the backup was still there only to find it had been deleted 3 months previously. So just putting the information out there so you don't suffer the same experience as I have. If you're using a backup like Google Drive make sure you access it so it not deemed dormant.

The reason I couldn't access it is because I moved to an Apple iPhone which doesn't use Google Drive. So now I have an Apple phone with new Whatsapp data. I'm going back to Android so if I do so how can I merge the new data with the data from my old phone?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

I want to transfer my data from my android phone to my new iPhone Any suggestions

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your time. This is not an ordinary request; I'll explain.
I need your kind help please regarding helping me transfer my WhatsApp application (complete with its history) from one phone to another. But there's a catch.
All "conventional"/recommended methods have failed. Here's what I tried:

- Backing up my conversation history to Google Drive then attempting to restore on the new phone
- Manually copying multiple "msgstore.db.crypt" files from the old phone to the new one and attempting to back up from all of them
- Deleting all backups on both Google Drive and phone memory and generating brand new ones, then trying all the above methodologies again
- Deleting all WhatsApp media and doing all of the above steps again and again
- Waiting 6 months (!!!) and attempting to backup again, doing all of the above steps
- Making absolutely sure that both WhatsApp versions are the exact same version
- Making absolutely sure that both WhatsApp versions are the latest version

In all attempts, the WhatsApp restore process fails at 24%.
Now on the bright side, when I (am forced to) go back to my old dying phone, it doesn't even go through a backup/restore process because all the data is already there. It just boots up WhatsApp at the state it was before I left it.

So my request is: I would please like help manually "excavating" my WhatsApp data from my old phone's system files to manually "plant" that data in my new phone's system files and all. I tried researching this and doing it myself but I don't know enough about Android's system file structure.
This is super important for me, because I have critical court evidence on there that I must preserve, and I cannot afford to "start fresh". Sadly, my old phone is now dying on me.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you very much.

Hola mi gente espero estén al 100, solo quería saber si alguien a podido transferir sus datos de WhatsApp de android a iphone sin morir en el intento, yo estoy en ese dilema que no se como pasar los datos sin perder los chats. Si alguien lo ha logrado si me ayuda por favor. Gracias de antemano mi gente.

My mom recently got a new phone (Samsung Galaxy S4 to Samsung Galaxy S7), with the exact same number & had to reinstall WhatsApp. I was trying to help her get all her messages & contacts on the new phone but nothing I was doing worked. I backed everything to Google Drive but I can’t figure out how to transfer everything over. The WhatsApp FAQ states a “restore” message should pop up but that never happened. I’m honestly getting very frustrated & idk what to do.

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I am facing quite a difficult problem.. I'm switching up from a Huawei P Smart 2021 to a Samsung Note 10+ and I have not been able to transfer and kind of data to my new phone. My biggest issue is with WhatsApp though. Google services are not available on my Huawei, so for the 3+ years I've had it there was no WhatsApp backup to my Google account. But it is backed up in the internal storage. I tried to manually restore the data using an SD card (I copied everything from the old phone to the sd card and then to the new phone), but the whatsapp on my new phone doesn't detect it/ it doesn't back it up. It only ask for Google drive back up, which I don't have.. I've tried following many tutorials, but nothing works. I really need to transfer my whatsapp data Does anyone have any solutions?

I need to move whatsapp backup from huawei to a different brand phone and cannot find how to do this. Any help here?

i'm really scared to change the number in my old phone since i really don't wanna lose my chats