Switched phone and lost whattsap msgs for last 8 months

digzy · 16-06-2020 05:38PM #1

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?

Tell me how · 16-06-2020 07:13PM

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?

digzy · 16-06-2020 10:35PM

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!

digzy · 16-06-2020 10:36PM

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

Doodah7 · 17-06-2020 10:06AM

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.

Switched phone and lost whattsap msgs for last 8 months

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