Tuesday 10 January 2017

Transfer WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to new iPhone

“I have replaced my old iPhone with an new iPhone, now i want to transfer my WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to new iPhone. What can i do to transfer WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to new iPhone?”

When our iPhone are lost, broken or new iPhone are released, we may want to change our old iPhone with a new iPhone. Then our iPhone data will be left on old iPhone, it’s so inconvenient when we want to check old messages from old iPhone, like WhatsApp messages. Now the demands of transferring WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to New iPhone is coming out. Based on this needs, we’ll show you some ways about transferring WhatsApp messages from old iPhone to new iPhone.

Read it and follow below steps and choose the most suitable one according to your needs.

Transfer WhatsApp messages with WhatsApp iCloud Backup

As we know WhatsApp messages couldn’t be stored on our servers, but WhatsApp has iCloud backup feature, we can use this feature to transfer your WhatsApp messages. But please make sure your WhatsApp iCloud has enough storage space and your iPhone is with iOS 6 or later.

Now go to WhatsApp Setting--Chats--Chat Backup, then tap on “Backup Now”. If you want to backup your chats automatically, you can turn on “Auto Backup” feature. And you can choose includes or excludes videos from the backup.

Now we’ll see how to restore your WhatsApp messages from iCloud backup.

Log in WhatsApp with the same ID and password on your new iPhone and make sure iCloud backup exist in your WhatsApp. Go to WhatsApp setting--Chats--Chat backup, and find your latest backup files, tap on “Restore from iCloud”, then confirm with “Restore Chat History”.

Transfer WhatsApp messages with iTunes Backup


Another common way to transfer WhatsApp messages on iPhone is with iTunes backup, it’s easy for most people to do backup and restore iPhone data. But it just won’t allow us to do it selectively.

Now we’ll see how to backup WhatsApp messages on iTunes:

Launching your iTunes, connect your old iPhone with PC. Go to Files--Summary, then click “Backup Now” on the right page, and confirm with “Backup”.

When finish backup, go to Files--Summary, you’ll see the backup files on the left side bar. Now connect your new iPhone with PC, tap on “Restore Backup” on the righ page, and confirm with “Restore”.



Transfer WhatsApp messages with iCloud Backup

When your iCloud has enough storage space, you can also use iCloud to transfer your WhatsApp messages. But it will need us to erase all content and settings when do restoring.

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

2.When finish backup, you can go to Setting--General--Erase all content and settings, when all content and settings are erased, go to set up assistant with a hello screen.

3.Swipe to begin the set up progress, choose the files you need, tap on “Restore Backup”, and confirm with “Restore”.



Tips: when lost your WhatsApp messages without backup, or you want to extract iPhone data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively and don’t want to erase all content and settings. You can come to iRefone for help.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, which can transfer your WhatsApp messages as well as recover them on your iPhone, and not limited to WhatsApp messages. Also it can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively, and it allows you to preview them before restoring. It can be compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod.

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



For related article, you can refer to below link:

Download WhatsApp Messages from iCloud

How to Recover Lost WhatsApp Messages on iPhone

Backup WhatsApp Messages on iPhone

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