hey this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and we all have whatsapp right but have you ever
wondered what happens to all of your data if you ever uninstalled or deleted whatsapp
well if so then luckily this video is for you because i'll talk to you
about the differences of uninstalling and deleting whatsapp and of course we
will walk you through what happens when you both uninstall and delete whatsapp
have you ever wondered what happens when you uninstall or delete whatsapp because i know at
some point every single one of us would have to have uninstalled whatsapp whether if that's to
get rid of those annoying notifications and you've just had too much or there's a problem with your
whatsapp so you've decided to uninstall it or delete it from your phone your contacts will
actually still be able to see you on whatsapp and they will be able to send you video calls
and group calls and group chats but of course they won't get through and if they won't get through
that is the same when someone tries to send you a normal message as well that message will send but
of course you will never see it because you would have already uninstalled whatsapp but once you
download whatsapp again and you log back in then all those calls and notifications that you'd been
sent you are then able to see and this is because uninstalling whatsapp is not deleting whatsapp
they're two very different things so let's go through and tell you the difference between both
when you go and uninstall whatsapp on your android or your ios device this just means that you are
removing it from the phone people can still send you video calls and normal calls and messages and
pictures and all of the normal stuff but because you don't have whatsapp on your phone anymore
you of course will not get these notifications and if you don't know how to uninstall whatsapp
then let's tell you how to do that because on iphone it's really simple all you need to do is
hold down on the app hit the x and hit delete and then that app has gone forever until you download
it again but on android it is a little different so go and grab your phone and open your settings
and then when inside the settings find the section that says apps and this might be named differently
depending on the android device that you've got you'll then scroll until you see whatsapp and then
just click on it you'll see the uninstall option select that hit ok and there we go
whatsapp is then deleted from your phone but let's talk about what happens when you decide to delete
your whatsapp account because when you delete your whatsapp account that means all your data
has gone it is gone forever this means that nobody on whatsapp can send you notifications anymore so
they can't send you messages you won't get any calls through anything that is sent to
that number on whatsapp it's not possible to do so because that account has now been deleted your
entire profile goes blank like it never existed so your profile photo that disappears and the contact
if they have you in their chat log can still send you a message they can still do that but
it will not deliver so what will happen is instead of getting those two ticks
it will only be one tick and that of course is because your whatsapp account no longer exists
and if you decided that you wanted to get whatsapp back again you'd have to register for a brand new
account with your phone number but when you go to do that it doesn't mean that you'll get any of
those messages that have been sent to you because that was sent to an old account and not the new
account that you would have just registered but if you want to know how to delete a whatsapp account
then let's show you how to do it and it's really quite simple you'll need to pick up your phone and
open up whatsapp then within the app go and find the settings and select the account settings that
you'll see there you then need to have a look towards the bottom where you will see delete
account and this is what you need to do to carry on you might then be asked to enter your
phone number just to confirm the account is to be deleted and that you're 100 sure that that's what
you want to do and once you've done that there it is that is your whatsapp account deleted forever
and when you do delete your whatsapp account it also deletes all of your cloud storage
you might still be sat there thinking well what happens if i uninstall whatsapp what happens
to all of my calls my messages my pictures everything that i had and luckily for you
the answer to that is fairly simple and i can give you that answer and the answer is well not
much because nothing really happens to any of your messages when you uninstall the app your
friends can still send you messages you just won't receive them because you can't get the
notification from an app you don't have and of course whatsapp has local and cloud-based backups
so you can just re-get all of your messages once you install the app again and of course
that takes time though depending on how many messages you had and remember
you might actually end up losing some of your media files when you try and get some of those
cloud backups it might be worth knowing as well that backups only get stored automatically on
android and if you have an iphone and you haven't backed up that data manually then you might end
up losing everything that you had even on an android you have to change the settings
to make sure it backs up to daily backups and you can do that by going into settings
selecting chat and selecting chat backup where you can select to do those daily backups
everyone loves a group chat don't they on whatsapp and the reason why is because you
can speak to more than one of your friends in a group at a time and actually there's hundreds of
thousands of groups made on whatsapp every single day and i'm sure you're curious to what happens
if you delete your whatsapp account when you're in some of these groups and the simple answer to this
is that if you delete your whatsapp account and you are in some group chat to work or family or
friends then you get removed from that group chat automatically when your account has been deleted
and if someone thinks you've left the chat and tries to add you back in they won't be
able to because your account no longer exists when you uninstall the app though rather than
delete it you still stay in that group chat people still send messages the whole group continues
without you it doesn't say you've left it just means you don't get those notifications to your
phone because once again you don't have whatsapp on your phone to get them but if you have some
really important group chats if you're in a really important family group chat and you want to delete
the app it might be worth uninstalling rather than deleting because you lose access to all of
those messages once that has been deleted and if you uninstall it and you're on an iphone remember
to make sure you back up your whatsapp chats manually or you might just lose everything
the answer to this really depends on what you do so if you just install the app then whatsapp
realizes that you've just uninstalled it and not deleted it so that all your contacts can still
see you this just means that your whatsapp account really stays exactly the same people
are still able to see your profile picture send you messages it's just that you don't
really receive them because you don't have the app on your phone and when you then go back to
reinstall the app your contacts will just see you back there so they can see your profile picture
their messages will get delivered so you'll now see two ticks and of course if you have it on
they will see your last scene and your online status if though however you decided to delete
the account then the answer is no your contacts won't be able to see you because you do not exist
on whatsapp so they can't send you messages you won't be able to send them messages
and then if you decided to install whatsapp again after registering you would have to add them as
a contact and start an entire new thread you might be wondering if there's a way to find out
if someone has actually uninstalled whatsapp and unfortunately whatsapp doesn't have an official
way to tell you so whatsapp won't send you a notification if one of your contacts decides
they want to uninstall the app and if you're looking for an official way then you're not
going to get one because whatsapp like i said doesn't have one but you can use your mind and
just do a little bit of digging and see whether someone has uninstalled their account if someone
you know is really active on whatsapp and after 24 to 48 hours their messages then don't send then
that could be an indication that they don't have whatsapp anymore so they might have uninstalled
or deleted it you'll also notice that their profile picture now doesn't exist so it is just
not there anymore so that's another indication that the account has actually been deleted and of
course if you had this contact in a group chat and they've left and you're not able to re-add them
then that's another sure way to pretty much tell that someone has deleted their whatsapp account
mobile trans is a piece of software that you might have heard of before because what it can do really
quickly and really easily is help you back up your data and it can take just minutes to do you
can also use this for saving whatsapp chats and its media and with mobile trans it can be done to
transfer data between devices so let me show you how to use mobile trans to transfer data to your
computer for step one you'll need to download and install mobile trans first and you can do
this from the official website which is in the description below once installed you'll need to
open it up and select the whatsapp message option at this point you will be asked to connect to the
device to the computer and you can do this with a usb cable or the help of an otg cable and for step
four once it is connected all you need to do now is press start and mobile trans will do the rest
and you just sit back relax and wait and if you're looking to uninstall whatsapp then the good news
is that mobile trans works with both ios and android devices to backup your data before
getting rid of the app hopefully this video helped you understand the difference between uninstalling
and deleting whatsapp and what happens to all of your messages and group chats and all the stuff
within whatsapp and then with mobile trans the software can give you a really good way to backup
all of that data to your computer if you wanted to delete the app and mobile trans is one of the only
ways you can save your chats and media locally to your computer which makes it extra safe if
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