You calmly send WhatsApp messages, you realize that you need information from one of them… and suddenly you realize you deleted it by accident. This can happen, I have observed it myself in certain situations with loved ones.
When you delete WhatsApp messages you do it forever, and this is precisely an advantage in favor of our privacy. Power reread these deleted messages It’s almost impossible…unless a certain situation arises where you’re willing to make sacrifices.
Backups can be your salvation
When you delete a WhatsApp message from a group or individual chat, the notification of that deleted message is visible to everyone and its contents disappear. But backups can save you– If you made one before deleting the message, you can use it to recover it.
There are two WhatsApp backups you can consider: the backup that WhatsApp makes independently in iCloud and the full iOS backup that includes all your WhatsApp content.
The most convenient solution comes if you have the first independent backup of WhatsApp. You can check if you have done it and its date by following these steps:
- On your iPhone, open WhatsApp.
- Go to “Preferences”.
- Click on “Discussions”.
- Click on ‘Save’:
If you look closely, in the upper area of the panel you will see it indicates whether the copy was made and the date it was made. If this date and time is before the message was deleted, you’re in luck: you can recover this backup to find it.
But of course, you can read about the sacrifice you’ll have to make in the message itself in the screenshot above: “You will be able to restore your chat history and media files once you reinstall WhatsApp.” That is to say, you need to completely remove WhatsApp from your iPhone and reinstall it again. And yes, you will lose all the messages and content you received since the last backup you made.
If the message is so important that you are willing to make this sacrifice (you can always save these messages elsewhere before uninstalling WhatsApp), delete WhatsApp from your iPhone and reinstall it from the App Store. The application itself will offer you to recover messages from this backup.
The ultimate sacrifice: do it if the message is too important to miss.
If you have not completed WhatsApp backup or it has a date later than when you deleted the message, you have the hope of resorting to iOS 17 backup. But here the sacrifice cannot be greater, because you will need to completely restore the iPhone to be able to restore data from this copy.
Not only do you lose WhatsApp messages after copying: you lose all data from all iPhone apps after this copy. So this is something I only recommend doing if the message is very, very important.
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