The instant messaging application WhatsApp is responsible for hundreds of messages passing through our mobile and media files throughout the week. These files are automatically stored both in our terminal and in the servers of WhatsApp, allowing us to transfer them to any other device when we need to use another mobile or tablet to communicate with our contacts.And, precisely on this occasion, we are going to explain step by step how to make a backup of WhatsApp on Android and on an iPhone In this way we will know all the steps that we have to follow when we have thought of change mobile keeping WhatsApp data
The instructions below are divided into two sections: a section for the operating system Android and another section for the operating system iOS Depending on the operating system that our terminal has, we must follow one or the other tutorial to make a backup copy of our data from WhatsApp
How to backup WhatsApp on Android
- First of all we must open the application of WhatsApp in our terminal with operating system Android .
- Once inside the application, we have to enter the section «Options«.
- Within this section we must click on the option “Settings” to, later, enter the section “ Chat history«.
- Then click on the option "Save chat history" and automatically the application will give us the possibility of making a backup copy of our conversations. Of course, it is important that we remember that conversation backup copies are only available for seven days, since after that time they are automatically deleted from the servers WhatsApp
- In this way our conversations will have been stored in encrypted form on the servers of WhatsApp , so the next time we open the WhatsApp application from a different mobile (keeping the same number) we will have the possibility to recover those conversations at the exact point where we left them.
- What about the media files? To back up your photos, videos, and sound files that we have shared or received by WhatsApp we must, first of all, connect our mobile Android to the computer via the USB
- Once we have connected the mobile to the computer, the next thing we will have to do is access the root directory of the mobile To do this, simply that we open the folder “My team” on the computer and double-click on the icon of our mobile.
- Within the mobile file directory we must look for a folder with the name "WhatsApp", within which we will find some folders with the name "WhatsApp Images", "WhatsApp Videos" and other similar names.These folders are the ones that contain all the multimedia files that we have shared or received in the application of WhatsApp
- Once we have located these folders, we simply have to copy the files stored in them to later paste them into a folder on our computer. When we want to recover those files on our new mobile, all we have to do is connect it to the computer, look for the WhatsApp folders (after having installed the application on the mobile) and paste inside the files that we have previously recovered from the previous terminal.
How to Backup WhatsApp on iOS (iPhone)
- First of all we access the application of WhatsApp from our iPhone .
- Once inside, if we look at the bottom of the screen we will see different sections. In this case, the section that interests us is “Settings“, so we click on it.
- Next we will be shown a new screen corresponding to the configuration options of WhatsApp. We must look for an option with the name “Chat settings” and click on it.
- Once we have clicked on that option, we must then click on an option with the name “Copia de chats«.
- Now we will see a screen corresponding to the backup copies of WhatsApp Click on the option “ Make a copy now» and automatically the iPhone will begin to make the backup copy of all the files associated with our WhatsApp (only conversations and photographs , while the videos will not be stored in the copy).The copies that we make from this section will be associated with our iCloud account, so it is important that in the event that we are going to change our mobile we keep the same iCloud account to make sure we can recover the backup later.
