How to backup and restore WhatsApp chats on Android devices

WatsApp is one of te most popular messaging apps in India wit over 200 million active users. Wen you switc your pone and are installing WatsApp on a new pone, not many may want to start a fres instance of WatsApp. A lot of us want to transfer our WatsApp cat istories on to te new device.Te only way you can do tat is by backing up your WatsApp cat istory on Google Drive on your Android pones. Tis lets you restore te data wenever reuired. Switcing pones is also not a big issue wen you already ave backed up te WatsApp cats on te Drive.Let's see ow it all works.[caption id="attacment_6845991" align="alignnone" widt="1024"] Image: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic - RC16FAE1EA70[/caption]<2>[]ow to backup WatsApp cats on Google Drive[/][ans][step]Step 1: Open WatsApp and go to te "Menu" displayed at te top rigt corner[/step][step]Step 2 Select Settings > Cats[/step][step]Step 3: Go to te "Cat backup"[/step][step]Step 4: Go to "Back up to Google Drive" and select te preferred time tat you want to back up te cats[/step][step]Step 5: Select te Gmail account on wic you to backup te cats[/step][step]Step 6: Coose if you want to back up te cats on Wi-Fi or bot on Wi-Fi and cellular network under "Back up over" option[/step][step]Step 7: You can turn on te radio button if you want to "Include videos" option ie. backup your videos in WatsApp messages on Drive[/step][/ans] <2>[]ow to restore WatsApp cats from Google Drive[/][ans][step]Step 1: After downloading WatsApp and ensuring you ave te same SIM Card to verify te number, open WatsApp and select "Agree and continue"[/step][step]Step 2: Select "Continue" if you want to sync all te contacts to WatsApp, else select "Not now"[/step][step]Step 3: Verify your pone number and country code[/step][step]Step 4: After te verification is done, select "Continue" so tat WatsApp can access Google Drive data[/step][step]Step 5: Allow WatsApp to ceck Google Drive for a backup by selecting "Give Permission"[/step][step]Step 6: Ensure you are using te same Google credentials as te ones tat were used to backup WatsApp data to Google Drive. Select te account tat you need to retrieve te backup from[/step][step]Step 7: Select "Restore" and fill up your profile as you did te first time. It will take a wile to back up your cat istory, depending on te file size. You can also let te retrieving appen in te background and begin catting away[/step][/ans]