How to Back up WhatsApp Data on iPhone/Android

You must know about WhatsApp even you haven't used it once. As a cross-platform application used for messaging, nowadays, WhatsApp has owned millions of users from around the world. With high compatibility, WhatsApp can be installed and used on multiple devices with different systems, which includes iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. More importantly, because people only need to connect to Internet for messaging each other, therefore, WhatsApp is entirely free for use. You can simply install WhatsApp on your mobile phone and start chatting with your friends online without paying any fee!

If you rely on WhatsApp to connect to your friends, colleagues, family, etc. mainly, you must want to back up the WhatsApp data on your device like iPhone/Android for saving some important messages. By doing the backup, you don't need to worry about losing the data due to the occurrence of some unexpected events, for example, losing your phone, WhatsApp app errors, and so on. Therefore, if you are not so familiar with WhataApp backup function, this blog is a right place for you to learn it. Let's dive in now!

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Part 1. [Android] WhatsApp Backup to Google Drive

For Android devices, the WhatsApp data can be fully backed up to Google Drive, which is a cloud platform for storing the data online. So when you change a new Android phone and want to get all the WhatsApp data again, you can simply login the Google Drive account and restored the media as well as chatting date you upload and save to Google Drive from WhatsApp before.

Before starting to back up WhatsApp data to Google Drive, you need to prepare these things at first:

* An activated Google account
* Installed Google Play services on Android device, which means that the system of your Android device need to be Android 2.3.4 or higher
* Enough storage on Android device and reliable Wi-Fi condition, because the size of the backup date is large normally

After doing a good preparation and get ready for backing up WhatsApp data to Google Drive, now just follow the guidance below step-by-step, and you can know the way on how to back up WhatsApp date on Android within simple clicks.

STEP 1. Launch WhatsApp application on your Android device firstly. Inside the app, tap Menu >> Settings >> Chats >> Chat backup.

STEP 2. If you are the first to back up WhatsApp data to Google Drive, you are required to choose a backup frequency in Google Drive for saving the WhatsApp backup data instead of selecting Never by default.

STEP 3. After the selection, you also need to select the Google account where you want to save the WhatsApp backup data. Remember the account and you can back up or restore the data again next time.

STEP 4. Due to the reason that the size of the WhatsApp data will be large if you haven't backup once yet. So you can choose to use a Wi-Fi for backup by tapping Back up over option.

Part 2. [iPhone] WhatApp Backup to iCloud

As Android users can back up WhatsApp data to Google Drive, likewise, if you are an iPhone user, you are able to back up WhatsApp data to iCloud for saving the data for accessing at anytime you want. The way to back up on iPhone is similar to Android. At first, do the preparation before starting the process.

Things you need to back up WhatsApp data on iPhone:

* The Apple ID you use for accessing iCloud
* The system of your iOS version need to be iOS 7 or higher
* Turn on iCloud Drive if you are using iOS 8 or later; turn on Documents & Data if you are using iOS 7
* Enough storage on iPhone as well as iCloud, and reliable Wi-Fi condition, because the size of the backup date is large normally

When you prepare all these required elements for backing WhatsApp data on iPhone, you can begin to take the step one-by-one to save the data to iCloud on iPhone.

Open WhatsApp app on your iPhone, then navigate the page in WhatsApp to Settings >> Chats >> Chat Backup >> Back Up Now. You can also enable Auto Backup, so that you don't need to manually follow the same process to back up WhatsApp data on iPhone again and again, saving much of your time.

[Tips] 2 Ways to Transfer WhatsApp Chats from Android to iPhone

Although backing up WhatsApp data on iPhone and Android seems easy, also, restoring them is not a big problem, too. However, in most cases, the cross-system data restore is not available, which means that iPhone can only restore data from iCloud to a new iPhone, and Android can restore data from Google Drive to Android only. But here, you can surprisingly get 2 ways to transfer WhatsApp backup chats from Android to iPhone. Want to know how? Keep on reading!

Way 1. Use E-mail Chat to Transfer WhatsApp Chats from Android to iPhone

STEP 1. Use your Android device to launch WhatsApp software, then go to Settings Menus >> Chats Settings Menus >> Chat History.

STEP 2. When you see the Export chat option after clicking on Chat History, select it and a pop up is available for you to select a place where you want to transfer the WhatsApp chats data to.
STEP 3. Click e-mail as your selection and enter your e-mail address. Then switch the device to iPhone and login with your e-mail account, you can review the WhatsApp chats on iPhone directly.

Restore WhatsApp Chats Using E-mail Chat

Way 2. Transfer WhatsApp Chats from Android to iPhone

STEP 1. If you have backed up the WhatsApp data on your Android device to Google Drive, directly uninstall the software. But you must make sure that you have saved the backup data to Google Drive.

STEP 2. Please pick up your iPhone to install WhatsApp software. After the installment, open the software and set up the account using the same phone number. When you almost finish your set up, WhatsApp would notify you whether you want to restore the backup from your Google Drive. Allow it to do so and you can restore the WhatsApp chats from Android to iPhone.

Backup WhatsApp Chat to iPhone from Google Drive

Have you got all these tricks to back up and restore WhatsApp chat from Android to iPhone? Save all the valuable chatting data with your chatmates by backing up the data regularly! In this way, you won't lose any important messages anymore!