How to Backup WhatsApp Messages on iPhone

We know that you use WhatsApp on a daily basis and that you will have many open and active conversations, some of them important, either for personal reasons or for work. The fundamental thing to keep them safe is to have a backup copy, so that if something happened you could rescue them. Backups of WhatsApp on iPhone are stored in iCloud. Therefore, it is possible to recover all chats and files when changing mobile phones, or in the case of that something unfortunately happens to the data, either during a system installation or by theft.

To make a backup of WhatsApp on iPhone it is necessary to follow the following steps. First, enter the WhatsApp app and access the Settings section. You'll find it at the bottom next to Chats. Once inside, click on Chats and go to Backup. From here you can make the copy and decide how often you want to do it. Keep in mind that your messages and files won't be protected with WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption while they're in iCloud.

If you don't want to make a manual backup, you can schedule WhatsApp to do it for you. To do this, enter Automatic copy and choose if you want the system to do it on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. You can also select to include the videos in the copy. Of course, it is important that to avoid scares with the subject of excessive data consumption, connect your device to a WiFi network or deactivate mobile data for iCloud. You can do it within Settings, Data, iCloud Drive, off.

You already know that iCloud is a free storage service only up to 5 GB. After that figure, which is quite easy, it is necessary pay 1 euro per month to have 50 GB, 3 euros per month to have 200 GB or 10 euros to enjoy 2 TB.