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Switched phone and lost whattsap msgs for last 8 months

  • 16-06-2020 04:38PM
    #1
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭


    Last iPhone died on Friday ( possible issue with microprocessor )
    I stuck the sim into my mother’s iPhone to check the whattsap msgs and all the ones I missed Popped up yesterday
    New iPhone arrived today and after putting in the sim all the msgs since mid October last year disappeared.

    Any suggestions how to restore?


Comments

  • #2
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,317 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Is the last iPhone dead dead, could you put the sim back in to it for a period to run the backup to the cloud and then restore on new phone?


  • #3
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭digzy


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Is the last iPhone dead dead, could you put the sim back in to it for a period to run the backup to the cloud and then restore on new phone?

    It’s done. Won’t start!


  • #4
    digzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭digzy


    Mr.S wrote: »
    If you don't have a WhatsApp backup (either full iPhone via iTunes or iCloud backup) you can't restore anything.

    What's probably happened is that auto-backup has failed on you (it's quite buggy on iOS WhatsApp) and the last usable one is from 8 months ago.

    Any chance there's a backup on iTunes if you connected to your laptop or pc?

    What you say makes sense. But I’m baffled how all the latest messages came up when I put my sim into mothers phone yesterday evening


  • #5
    Doodah7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Are you sure that WhatsApp didn't carry out a backup on your mother's phone?? Obviously this would have only copied the recent messages and wiped out earlier ones.


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