One of the most annoying events for WhatsApp users is having to retrieve messages or entire conversations that have been deleted from the phone. This often happens because at that time they were not considered important, or certain messages are simply deleted by mistake. In any case, although there are ways to recover them, this is not always possible. However, there is a way to make ourselves safe from any problem and avoid having to waste time and effort looking for who knows what recovery technique or program that can help us.

The secret to being able to recover messages effortlessly is to activate the automatic saving of conversations . This way, every time you create a new chat, a save copy is created. Thus, not only is it possible to retrieve old messages at any time, but it is also possible to delete conversations from your mobile phone to free up memory space. The saving of the chats takes place in the “cloud”, nothing more than a virtual memory on the Internet that stores our data. Let’s see in detail how to do it on both Android phones and iPhones.

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Save WhatsApp conversations automatically on Andorid

For those who use WhatsApp on an Android device, the application has introduced a feature since October 2015 that automatically sends conversations to Google Drive , Google’s cloud storage service. This feature is available since the update to version 2.12.303, but many users don’t know where to find it or haven’t activated it yet. Let’s see how to use it.

The creation of a backup copy to be sent to Google Drive takes place automatically, but it is possible to customize its operation.

To turn on autosave dev i :

1. Open WhatsApp tap the menu icon in the format of “three dots”.
2. Find the Settings  option .
3. Press the Chat and Calls button .
4. Click on Backup to Google Drive .
5. At this point, just select the desired frequency with which you want to save WhatsApp conversations automatically (daily, weekly, monthly).

We recommend that you leave the ” backup ” option set to ” WiFi only ” because this way you do not risk consuming the daily amount of data available on your data connection. The inclusion of videos in the backup and you can select this option with the dedicated button you find in the screen.

Automatically save WhatsApp conversations on iPhone

To enable automatic backup creation on iPhone, proceed as follows:

1. Open WhatsApp and go to Settings .
2. Click on Chat .
3. Click Chat Backup .
4. Then select Auto Backup and choose how often you want it to be created (daily, weekly, monthly).

How to restore chats from a backup

To restore the conversations stored on Google Drive with an Android mobile phone , you must re-install WhatsApp, shortly after the application will search for a file available in the internal memory of the device and then automatically resort to the virtual repository. The time required to complete (which varies depending on the size of the backup file and the speed of the Internet connection) and WhatsApp will open a window where you are asked if you want to restore the backup copy created previously. The same procedure also applies to restoring a chat saved in iCloud with an Apple iPhone device . In any case, this little foresight can avoid many problems. As if to say: prevention is better than cure.