Sunday 29 January 2017

Backup WeChat Photos on iPhone

“Anyone knows how to backup WeChat photos on iPhone? Any suggestions will be appreciated.”

Every day we’ll send or receive some photos from our friends through WeChat to share each other’s life, or just transfer photos through WeChat. And there are plenty of beautiful photos that we want to backup. So we may be wondering how to backup WeChat photos on iPhone. Now you’re in correct place, in this page, we’ll show you some ways about backup WeChat photos on iPhone.

Save WeChat photos on iPhone

If there is only several of WeChat photos you need to save on iPhone, you can do it one by one through your WeChat.

Open your WeChat, go to the chat log that there is photos you need to save. Tap on the photo to open it and hold on until the option “Save to Phone” appear, then tap on it and save this photos to your iPhone.

Remark: it can be used when there is only several of WeChat photos you need to save. When there is hundreds or thousands of them, it’s just a little time wasting.

Backup WeChat photos on iPhone with iTunes

When there is hundreds or thousands of WeChat photos you need to backup, you can use iTunes, it’s storage space depends on your computer’s storage space.

Launching your iTunes, connect your iPhone with PC. Go to Files--Summary, click “Backup Now” and confirm with “Backup”.



Remark: it just won’t allow us to backup WeChat photos selectively, so we’ll have to backup the whole folder.

Backup WeChat photos on iPhone with iCloud

We can also choose iCloud to backup your WeChat photos, but the storage space of iCloud is limited, when there are thousands of photos, your iCloud storage may be full. When it’s full, it won’t allow us to do any backup.

Connect your iPhone with Wifi, go to Setting--iCloud, log in it with your Apple ID and password, then turn on your iCloud server, and tap on “Backup” and confirm with “Backup Now”.

Selectively Backup WeChat Photos on iPhone with iRefone

We can also selectively backup WeChat photos on iPhone, but we’ll need come to the help of third-party iOS data backup and recovery software iRefone, which can backup more than 16 kinds of files, like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WeChat messages ect. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup, and it allows us to preview them before restoring.

Now you can download and install the free trial version to have a try.



Step 1. Run iRefone, connect your iPhone with PC. Choose “Recover from iOS Device”, click “Start”.



Step 2. Then we’ll enter the new interface with many data icon and media icon that iRefone can recover, click “WeChat Attachment” icon, and it’ll be scanned by the software.



Step 3. When finish scanning and analyzing, you can preview and choose WeChat photos you need to backup, tap on “Recover to PC”.



For more related article, you can refer to below article:

How to Recover Lost WeChat Photos on iPhone

Recover WeChat Photos on iPad

Recover Deleted WeChat Photos in Chat History on iPhone

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