How to Recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages

Nowadays most popular messaging apps is WhatsApp. We All are Aware of Messaging app Called Whatsapp, We Use it daily and no doubt We Love it, But have you been in a situation when you accidentally delete an important message on Whatsapp and you don’t know what to do next? Well, Touch screen devices are great to use but many times it frustrates you when you tap on the wrong option and things happen which you don’t wish to do. Many of you might not know that there are ways to recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages.

Today in this article I will share two Methods to Recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages on your Android or iPhone.

(1) Manually Recover
(2) Recover by Web Application

Manually Recover

Most people know that Whatsapp creates a backup of all the data each day at a specific time (system time) which is stored in the SD card of your android smartphone. Follow these simple steps to recover deleted Whatsapp messages.

(1) First of all to open the Whatsapp database folder on SD card, you will require file explorer for this task. the path is sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases.

(2) In the Database folder you will see your all chat files which are with names is like msgstore-2014-01-04.1.db.crypt. You may notices the file names have dates as well. but there is a File which is msgstore.db.crypt, we need to rename it. you can add any word before msgstore.db.crypt.

(3) After renaming that file, From the other Files just select the file which shows the appropriate date before you accidentally deleted your Whatsapp messages, and then rename that file to msgstore.db.crypt. This Renaming process can also be done on your PC by Connecting your device.

(4) Now the Final step, Goto Setting > Applications > manage applications > Whatsapp and Click on Clear Data. Now open Whatsapp, Choose Restore when it prompts. That's it, the chat file saved as msgstore.db.crypt will be restored as your message in Whatsapp.

Advantage: In case if you have deleted any image/audio or Video from your Whatsapp chat, then don't worry, it's not deleted forever until you delete it. To view that image or Video all you have to do is with the help of your preferred file manager, go to "sdcard/WhatsApp/Media" Where you will find folders with names "Whatsapp Audio, Whatsapp images, Whatsapp video" Open them up to find the file you are looking for.

Recover by Web Application

In this method, we use a web application called Recover Messages which is specially designed to recover Deleted Whatsapp Messages. This is a free online service that will help you to read the content of the Whatsapp database file and shows you sent and received messages.
Simply Go to Recover message Site, Click on Select SQlite file to Upload the Database file, Select the Database file from SD card, Check the box which says I accept the terms of use, and click on Scan.

Just wait for a few seconds while it takes a little bit of time to show your Messages. With this Simple Method, you can View your deleted Whatsapp messages within less than a minute.

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About Shahabuddin Vansiwala

Welcome to Trick Wala, I am Shahabuddin Vansiwala founder of this blog. I am a Software Engineer and sometimes love to write a blog.