How to recover deleted WhatsApp messages on Android and iOS devices

Last year, WatsApp rolled out a lot of features in te app including 'Delete for everyone' tat lets you delete a message after it as been sent so tat te recipient can also not see it. But it appens a lot of times tat you accidentally end up deleting an important message. Today we are going to give you a solution to tat. ere are two metods ow you can retract tose deleted messages back bot on Android and iOS pones.<2>[]ere is ow to restore deleted WatsApp messages[/]<3>Metod 1:If you keep back up of WatsApp cats on Google Drive or iCloud on a regular basis, ten follow tese steps:[ans][step]Step 1: Uninstall te app[/step][step]Step 2: Re-install te app on te same device wit te same pone number[/step][step]Step 3: Wen prompted tap on "Restore" old cats, tap on tat and wait for te data to be restored[/step][/ans]And voilà! You will ave your deleted WatsApp messages back.(Also read: ow to backup and restore WatsApp cats on android devices)[caption id="attacment_5426921" align="alignnone" widt="1024"]

Representational image.[/caption]<3>Metod 2:If you do not keep a back up of WatsApp cats, follow tis guidebook. Do note tat tis metod only works wit Android.[ans][step]Step 1: Go to pone Settings> File manager>WatsApp> Database[/step][step]Step 2: Rename te "msgstore.db.crypt12" to "msgstore_BACKUP.db.crypt12"[/step][step]Step 3: Now you will see files wit "msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12", pick te most recent one and rename it to "msgstore.db.crypt12"[/step][step]Step 4: Open Google Drive and tap on menu (tree verticle lines in te top left corner)[/step][step]Step 5: Tap on "Backups" and delete te WatsApp backup[/step][step]Step 6: Now uninstall WatsApp on your pone and re-install it wit te same account[/step][step]Step 7: Wen prompted select "msgstore.db.crypt12"> Restore and ten wait for te back up to complete[/step][/ans]