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.

Recover deleted WhatsApp messages without backup

“I cleared some of my WhatsApp messages as well as the one i really need, what should i do to recover deleted WhatsApp messages without doing backup?”

When occasionally deleted our WhatsApp photos, we can find them in our Photo folder, only if you turned on “Auto Download Media” button on your WhatsApp. But for WhatsApp message, we couldn’t find them back by this way when deleting them without backup. Now we’ll come to the question about how to recover deleted WhatsApp messages without backup.

Here, we’ll introduce two ways for you to retrieve your deleted WhatsApp message without backup.

Recover deleted WhatsApp message by re-installing WhatsApp

If you lost or deleted your WhatsApp messages without doing any backup, you can recover them by uninstalling your WhatsApp, then re-installing it. After re-installing the WhatsApp on your iPhone, it’ll prompt a notice “Restore Messages”, now tap on it. Then you’ll have your deleted WhatsApp messages back.

Remark: it may couldn’t restore all your WhatsApp message back.

Recover deleted WhatsApp messages with iRefone

If you want to recover your deleted WhatsApp messages selectively, iRefone can help you with it.

iRefone is a professional iOS data recovery software, it can recover your lost or deleted iPhone data in a few seconds, even you didn’t do any backup.like contacts, notes, messages, photos, WhatsApp messages, reminders ect. Also it allows us to preview them before restoring.

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



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



Step 2. When we enter the new interface with many data files that iRefone can recover, tap on “WhatsApp Message” icon, and it’ll be scanned and analyzed by the software.



Step 3. Wait a few seconds for scanning, then you’re preview and choose WhatsApp messages you need, tap on “Recover to PC”.