6 Methods to Get Back Deleted WhatsApp Messages & Chat

Part 1: 3 Ways to Undelete WhatsApp Messages for iPhone

Method 1: Find Deleted WhatsApp Messages from iPhone

dr.fone – iOS Data Recovery makes it easy to find deleted WhatsApp messages and bring back to you. No matter your WhatsApp chats removed due to unintentional deletion, system crash or virus inflection, this tool is able to recover them under any scenario from your iOS device. So, if you’re one of those who want to get back deleted WhatsApp messages in your iPhone, read on the following tutorials and get the desired results.

Step 1: First of all, you need to install the newest version of iTunes. Now, start downloading the toolbox in your respective computer from its official website. Install and launch it afterwards. With the help of a USB cord, connect your iPhone to the computer. Allow the program to proceed by clicking on ‘Trust’ when prompt ‘Trust this Computer’. On successful connection, choose the ‘Data Recovery’ option. Move to the next step now.

Step 2: In the next window, you receive two options namely’ ‘Deleted Data from the Device’ and ‘Existing Data on the Device’. You can choose the one you prefer and then just hit on ‘Start Scan’. With this, the software will initiate scanning process and start finding deleted chats on WhatsApp. When the scanning will complete, you will get the results displayed on the screen. You can choose WhatsApp option from the left panel and then preview your chats once prior to recovering it.

Step 3: In the last, you need to click on ‘Recover to Computer’ button given at the bottom in green colour. Confirm your action by clicking on ‘Recover to Computer’ and you’re good to go now.

Method 2: Selectively Undelete WhatsApp Messages from iTunes Backup

If you want to get deleted WhatsApp messages back from iTunes backup, you can easily do that too with the help of dr.fone – iOS Data Recovery. This is because the tool offers 3 professional recovery modes. One of them includes retrieving data from iTunes backup. Completely compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems, this method is surely gonna help you. Learn how to get deleted WhatsApp messages back when having iTunes backup.

Method 3: Selectively Undelete WhatsApp Messages from iCloud Backup

As informed above, dr.fone with its iOS Data Recovery offers 3 modes, it can also help you in recovering your WhatsApp messages from an iCloud backup. So, if you have saved your chats in iCloud backup, you can effortlessly get deleted WhatsApp messages back from iCloud using this tool.

Part 2: 3 Ways to Find WhatsApp Messages for Android

Method 1: Get back deleted WhatsApp messages via WhatsApp local backup

When using Android device and WhatsApp messages get deleted without notice, fret not! There is a chance to get deleted WhatsApp messages back and you can do this by recovering through WhatsApp local backup. If you didn’t know, WhatsApp makes backup on regular basis at 2 AM. Therefore, it leaves a possibility to recover your deleted messages. So, let’s see how it can help in recovering chats.

Delete WhatsApp in your phone and then reinstall it. Enter the details now. Ensure to type in the same phone number and verify it. Once verified, it will ask you to restore the messages and proceed. Tap on ‘Restore’ and follow the prompts to get your messages back.

However, there are some drawbacks using this method. These are:

• This can only work if you have enabled daily backup option.
• Another drawback of using this method is that it can recover chats that are 7 days back.
• Moreover, you can’t recover the backup selectively using this method.

Method 2: Directly Recover WhatsApp Messages on Android Phone

The Android users whose WhatsApp messages got deleted unknowingly and if the above method didn’t suit you, don’t get upset, we have a solution for you too. You can use dr.fone – Android Data Recovery which is another invention by the iSkysoft team taking Android users into concern. The advantage of using this over other methods is you don’t need to have a backup. The software can scan the Android data itself and bring it back to you. The best part about this tool is it can support more than 6000 Android devices. Another great thing is this tool can recover your data from phone’s internal memory as well as SD card. Not just WhatsApp messages, it has the ability to support many other Android data types, no matter how they got deleted. Now, without much ado, let’s get to know how this tool works.

How to get deleted WhatsApp messages back using dr.fone – Android Data Recovery

Step 1: Make sure to download dr.fone – Android Data Recovery from the "Free Download" buttons below and install it. Open it afterwards and go to the ‘Data Recovery’ option from the main screen. After this, take your USB cable and start connecting your Android device to the PC. Also, please be sure that you have turned on ‘USB Debugging’ in your device.

Step 2: Now, when you connect your device, the program will read it thoroughly and present your data on the screen. From the list of data types, you can choose the desired one i.e. ‘WhatsApp messages & attachments’. And then click on ‘Next’.

Step 3: On clicking the ‘Next’ button, the program will offer you two different scanning modes to choose from. These are ‘Standard Mode’ and ‘Advanced Mode’. The Standard one is designed to go through a basic scan of the data whereas the latter one will perform an in-depth scan. And therefore Advanced mode will take time for this. So, choose one and proceed to next step.

Step 4: When you choose on scan mode, you WhatsApp messages will start getting scanned according to that. After a couple of minutes, you will be able to see the results in your PC screen. Click on WhatsApp data on the left panel and check your messages. Once you get satisfied with previewing the messages, hit on ‘Recover’ to complete the process. You will get your chats back to you.

Method 3: Get back deleted WhatsApp messages via Google Drive

The third way with the help of which you can get deleted WhatsApp messages back is Google Drive. But again, you should have backup in your Google Drive before to use this method. Make sure you have enabled Google Drive backup and have set the backup frequency using your Gmail address. Follow the steps now.

How to undelete WhatsApp messages through Google Drive

Step 1: Just uninstall the WhatsApp app from your device and make sure to configure the same Google account that you used before. Now, install WhatsApp once again.

Step 2: Please login with the same phone number that you used before from which your chats got deleted. Verify phone number by completing the formalities like submitting OTP.

Step 3: Once done, you will be informed that your backup is found and will be asked to restore it. Just tap on ‘Restore’ followed by ‘Next. At the end, tap ‘Continue’ and you will notice your WhatsApp chats getting restore in your device. In a couple of minutes, you will get those back in your chats section.