How to Restore WhatsApp Messages from iCloud

WhatsApp is a cross-platform instant messaging app, which allows users to chat with friends, family, and workmates anytime and anywhere. We can send messages, photos, and audio, share location, contacts and videos, and all of these functions listed above bring us much enjoyment to communicate with others.

However, we may clear some important conversations with our friends or workmates by mistake. When we are stuck in this kind of situation, we may want to get back these deleted WhatsApp messages as soon as possible. If you have created backups of WhatsApp messages on iCloud, you can retrieve these WhatsApp messages from your iCloud backup. How to recover WhatsApp messages from iCloud?

In this iMobie guide, we will show you two ways to download WhatsApp messages from iCloud backup with step-by-step tutorial. Let's get started.

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Part 1. Restore WhatsApp Messages from iCloud

• Go to WhatsApp Settings > Chat Setting > Chat Backup to verify that there is an iCloud backup for your WhatsApp chat history.
• Delete and reinstall your WhatsApp from the App Store.
• Verify your Phone number > Follow on the Prompts to restore WhatsApp Chat history.

Note: The iPhone number for backup and restoration must be the same. If you restore WhatsApp messages in this way, you need to uninstall and reinstall your WhatsApp and then recover WhatsApp messages from iCloud backup. More than anything, you may only need a small part messages from your iCloud backup instead of all of them. Part 2 will show you how to recover WhatsApp messages you need from iCloud and you don't have to uninstall your WhatsApp.

Part 2. Restore WhatsApp Messages from iCloud with PhoneRescue

Before starting this tutorial, let's give a brief introduce of PhoneRescue.

PhoneRescue – iOS data recovery is an excellent software to retrieve deleted data on iPhone/iPod/iPad. With it, you can recover your WhatsApp messages on iPhone from iCloud or iTunes backup, or from devices directly. And you can preview and selectively choose to download WhatsApp messages and attachment like photos and videos you need from iCloud instead all of them. Besides WhatsApp messages, it could recover Skype messages and its attachment, text messages and its attachment.

After learning about PhoneRescue, we can use it to retrieve WhatsApp messages from iCloud.

Step 1. Download and install PhoneRescue(choose Download for iOS) > Open it > Select Recover from iCloud > Sign in with your Apple ID.

Step 2. Take some minutes to download the backup that contains the WhatsApp messages you want to recover > Click on Right Arrow to scan the backup.

Step 3. Select WhatsApp and its Attachment > Preview and choose the messages you want to recover > Click on To Computer button to download them to your Mac or PC.

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The Bottom Line

Besides WhatsApp messages, you can use PhoneRescue to recover the lost files like photos, videos, notes, reminder, call history and so on from iDevices, iTunes or iCloud backup. For any question you have, please contact our support team . If this guide is helpful, please share it with your family and friends. Why not download it now?