hey this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and welcome back to another video and today we're
going to talk about one of these topics that crops up for people every single day and of
course that is talking about whatsapp backup and a lot of people want to know how you can do that
on ios 15 and sometimes things change and you never know where to find the right options so
today's video is all about how you can back up your whatsapp in ios 15 but before we get into all
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when ios 15 was released a couple of weeks ago a lot of people upgraded to it and a lot
of people faced an issue where they couldn't actually find their whatsapp chat history or
backups anymore and if you think you're alone with that problem then you're not because i faced it
loads of other people have faced it all around the world so it is not just you but
if you can't retrieve those backups of your whatsapp then unfortunately
they are going to be lost forever the first method in today's video is to show
you how you can make sure you keep those whatsapp chats backed up by using icloud
icloud is one of the built-in features on iphone and you can backup several kinds of
information from your device to icloud if you have an account which this means you can backup
data from apps including whatsapp on icloud and usually the backup process runs automatically in
the background but first you actually need to be able to enable that for it to work so let me show
you these really easy methods and steps on how you can do it firstly you need to launch the settings
from your iphone's home screen and then at the top you will see your apple id so tap on that
now tap icloud to access the different settings for syncing your icloud account to your device
then just enable icloud by tapping on the toggle besides the icloud drive and also ensure that you
have also enabled the icloud backup and finally keep scrolling down to locate the whatsapp setting
under icloud and tap the toggle button beside it to make sure that this is then enabled and
that is that that is how simple it is to make sure your whatsapp chats are backed up via icloud but
there is sometimes a problem with icloud and one of them being that you only get
five gigs of free space that apple give you so if you need more space you're gonna have to buy
it and you can't selectively then choose the chats that you wanna backup or even restore so
sometimes icloud is not the best option but method 2 might be the better option for you
if you've ever used whatsapp before in your life then you probably know that whatsapp itself allows
you to make sure you can backup your chat directly within the app and then you can restore them
once you get a new phone if it's an iphone and take all of those chats over with you and there's
a couple of ways that you can do it you can either have this be done automatically every single day
or weekly or monthly it's up to you or you can actually do it manually yourself so let me show
you exactly what you need to do to get that to work make sure you open up whatsapp first of
all and then go into the settings menu at the bottom right of the whatsapp screen then tap
on chat on the settings page and then finally you can just tap chat backup on the next page and then
once that opens you'll see how to backup your whatsapp data you can do this manually and tap
backup now and you can also tap on auto backup to decide how frequently whatsapp backs up your data
like i said it could be daily weekly or monthly and at times this is a bit annoying because
whatsapp will take forever to make sure that that backup is happening so the best thing to do
is just make sure your app is up today or if that doesn't work then follow these next steps
delete whatsapp data from your icloud account so launch the settings on your device select icloud
and tap on manage storage and then just select whatsapp messenger and then just tap delete data
and then for the third step just make sure you disable the icloud and force close settings and
then launch whatsapp close whatsapp and return to settings and enable icloud you can now use
the steps that we discussed a minute ago to create a new whatsapp backup but we have another method
for you as well and that is to keep your files and whatsapp data all saved locally in our next method
if using a cloud service is not what you want to do and sometimes that is the best option we have
a really good option for you where you can save all of your whatsapp backups on ios 15 locally
and that is an app called mobile trans with mobile trans you can safely and swiftly back
up your chats with your photos group data videos documents and other whatsapp related resources
with mobile trans whatsapp transfer and here are the benefits to show how efficient this software
is is it actually creates a backup of whatsapp chats and other related resources like we just
mentioned with videos photos and attachments to your pc not only that if you get an android phone
and want to transfer your chats from your iphone to that android phone then mobile trans can help
with that as well and as well as all that it is quick it is easy and it is really simple to do
so let me show you the methods and what you'll need to do to get those whatsapp chats on ios 15
backed up with mobile trans the first thing you need to do is download the mobile trans app
and if you haven't done that already you can do that from the official mobile trans website
then connect your ios device to your pc using a lightning cable and just launch mobile trans the
next thing you'll need to do is select whatsapp this is the action that will make the app detect
your device automatically and display all the types of data available for backup the backup data
includes photos messages audios and other bits of data and once you click on start you'll then
start to backup all of the types of whatsapp data but you can't actually select this type of data
just make sure that you don't disconnect the device as well before that transfer is complete
otherwise you'll have to start it again and once it is then completed you will get a message to
notify you that the process is complete anytime you then want to access that data you can do
with your pc and if you want to transfer again like i said before over from iphone to android
your pc and mobile trans has all of this data there ready for you waiting to go
the earlier methods that we showed you are really good for people that have lots of data which they
want to make sure is transferred over but what if you have a couple of chats that you just
want to transfer the data of you might be asking well is there a way that i can do that and yes
there is a way that you can do that you can actually make sure that your chats are backed
up on ios 15 using whatsapp with google drive and then you're like well how do i use google drive
to do that well it's nice and easy and simple because what happens is that whatsapp give you
the option to actually email the chats to yourself as a form of a whatsapp backup google drive gives
you 15 gigabytes of free cloud storage which means that what you can do is save your chats
when you've emailed them to yourself in your google drive but this is an option where you
can then not restore those chats it just means you have your important chats saved there forever so
let me show you how you can do it launch whatsapp and open the conversation that you need to save
this conversation can be a group or individual chat second of all tap on the conversation
icon and check more options and select email chat your action in step 2 presents you with a list of
options including or excluding attachments of your chat most email servers though have a limit
and for google it's 25 megabytes so just make sure here you don't include those large files
you can then just choose your preferred email app and this can be anything but for this one
we're going to choose google and then you will see a draft window with a txt
file attachment this attachment is your backup file and you can simply send this to yourself
on email however there are a few pros and cons for these methods let's start with the pros first of
all and the first one is that it is actually free so you can't go wrong with that and then
the second one is you can then access this chat on any device that you can log into your email with
but when there are pros there are also cons it's a bit complicated for someone who wants to just save
a single chat and it can take forever and that is the second con that it is just really time
consuming and of course the third con is that actually this is not a place where you can then
restore your chat it's just for you to keep hold of and read and when you do read it it
sometimes doesn't look fantastic there we go there are all the methods that you can use to
back up your whatsapp and ios 15. some of them are cloud-based and of course some of them are
local based using your pc just like mobile trans and that for me is probably the best
option because it takes no time at all it's done in just a couple of clicks and then that
means you have all of your files locally and can even move them from your iphone backup over to
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