Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages without Backup

As we couldn’t share our daily life on WhatsApp, so many people are using it to contact their clients. Then those WhatsApp messages will be very important, so when you have no backup, how do you recover your deleted WhatsApp messages?

We can easily recover our WhatsApp messages when we have some backups, but what if there is no backup? How to recover them? Here, we’ll focus on show you how to recover deleted WhatsApp messages without backup.

Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages from Local Backup

Since April 2017, the recent WhatsApp update will be done at 2 am every day, including an automatic local backup, and it will be saved on a local storage of the Android phone.

And we can find those conversation from our SD card, please follow below steps and check your deleted WhatsApp messages.

Step 1. Remove the SD card from your Android phone, then insert it to SD card reader. Then go to file path: sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases

Step 2. Then change the name of backup files you need from msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12 to msgstore.db.crypt12. and you don’t need to change the number of the crypt extension.

Step 3. Now uninstall WhatsApp on your Android phone, then reinstall it, and it will prompt a message asking us to restore backups.

Step 4. If you couldn’t find backup files from SD card, you can navigate to “internal storage” or “main storage” folder.

Tips: Please note that recovering WhatsApp messages from SD cards only works for the past 7 days message.

Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages with iRefone

If you’re using an iPhone,and want to recover your deleted WhatsApp messages selectively, iRefone can help you with it.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, it can help us recover more than 16 kinds of files even we have no backups, including contacts, notes, messages, photos, reminders, calendars, call history, WeChat messages, WhatsApp messages ect. Also it can help us extract data from iTunes and iCloud backup selectively when you have one.

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”, and tap on “Start”.



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



Step 3. After scanning, you can preview and choose WhatsApp messages you need, tap on “Recover to PC”, and choose folder path to save them.