WhatsApp Backup Backup and restore iPhone and Android. Backups on computers or smartphones are more important than ever. This also applies to WhatsApp users. With the popular messengers, important text messages, photos, videos and other files are sent every day. Secure your chats whether you use an iPhone or Android. In our guide, we will show you how to create and restore a backup of WhatsApp.
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1 Create and restore WhatsApp backup
2 Create WhatsApp backup with Android
3 Recover WhatsApp Data via Google Drive
4 Create WhatsApp backup with iPhone
5 Recover WhatsApp Data via Google Drive
Create and restore WhatsApp backup
How quickly can it happen that you lose your smartphone and it breaks. Play it safe and create a backup of your WhatsApp Charts . When backing up, the pictures and videos are also backed up. WhatsApp backup is important as we show you how to backup WhatsApp and recover lost chats.
Create WhatsApp backup with Android
If you use WhatsApp on an Android , you have two options:
First option:
With the first option, which is also automatically activated, a backup copy is created every morning at 02:00. The backup is automatically saved on the Android phone used.
Second option:
With the second option, the data is stored online on Google Drive. This option must be activated manually. You can decide how often the backup should be saved to Google Drive . Example once, daily, weekly or monthly. You can determine whether the videos should also be backed up.
To create a WhatsApp backup with your Android, do the following:
- Start WhatsApp
- Tap on the three dots in the top right
- On the opened menu, tap Settings
- Tap on Chats and then on Chat Backup
- Here you can tap on Backup .
The backup is saved on your smartphone .

Below you can make the Google Drive settings :
If you tap on Back up Google Drive, a menu opens with the following setting options:
- Never
- Only when I type save
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
Account
Under Account you can select different account if you have
back up over
You can backup WhatsApp data via WiFi or WiFi and mobile data. It is recommended to back up the data via WLAN. Such a backup can be several MB or even GB in size.
Recover WhatsApp Data via Google Drive
Restoring a backup from Google Drive is very easy. Install WhatsApp.
Start Messenger and if verification is successful, click Restore.
All chats and files will be restored.
Create WhatsApp backup with iPhone
If you use WhatsApp on an iPhone, it is also very important to create regular backups. To make a manual backup of your charts, start WhatsApp:
- Tap Settings > Chats
- Continue on Chat Backup
- To create the manual backup, tap Back up now.
Here you also have the option to create automatic backups. To do this, tap on Atom. backups You have the following choices:
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Out of
Below, if you slide the slider to the right under Include videos , the videos will also be saved
Recover WhatsApp Data via Google Drive
Restore WhatsApp data via iCloud, in order to install the latest backups on your iPhone, you need to delete WhatsApp from your iPhone.
Reinstall WhatsApp from the Appstore.
After verifying your phone number, you will be asked if you want to install backup from iCloud . Just follow the on-screen instructions.