WhatsApp lately added the encrypted backups characteristic that enables your Google Drive and iCloud backups to even be end-to-end encrypted. This makes the service safer as a complete. However, you’ll be able to nonetheless backup your WhatsApp information and even switch it to a different cellphone through utterly offline strategies. All you want is a file compression app like RAR.
The technique works by mainly taking an offline backup of your information, getting all the information right into a single folder, after which transferring that folder throughout to a different cellphone. It will not be as handy as utilizing your Google Drive backup, however allows you to skip Google Drive completely.
It can be helpful in case you’re in a pinch and haven’t any WiFi round you, avoiding the importing and downloading of your complete WhatsApp information, which can be an excessive amount of for an information plan. Here’s how.
Step 1: Create an area backup on WhatsApp
Inside WhatsApp, navigate to the three dot menu on the homepage and go to Settings/ Chat/ Chat Backup and faucet on ‘Back Up’. After an area backup is created, you’ll be able to ignore the Google Drive backup immediate, if any. You now have an area backup created in your cellphone’s inside storage.
Create an area backup first. (Express Photo)
Once the native backup is prepared, uninstall WhatsApp from the older system.
Step 2: Install RAR or another file compression utility
Go to the Google Play Store and obtain the RAR app and set it up. We will likely be utilizing this to compress our complete WhatsApp information and make it a single file. You may also select another app of your alternative.
Step 3: Compress your WhatsApp information
Inside the RAR app, you will notice your cellphone’s inside storage listing. Navigate to the Android/ Media and search for the ‘com.whatsapp’ folder. Select the tick mark subsequent to the com.whatsapp folder and press the add archive button on prime (formed like a ‘+’). The complete folder ought to now start turning right into a .rar file.
Use RAR to show the native backup folder right into a single file which you can ship to a different cellphone. (Express Photo)
Note that compressing your complete WhatsApp information is a time-consuming course of and should take some time. You may also select to make it a .zip file as a substitute. The solely level of creating the entire folder right into a .zip file or a .rar file is to make the entire switch course of much less clumsy.
Step 4: Move the information to your new cellphone
Move the brand new com.whatsapp.rar file (or com.whatsapp.zip file in case you made a zipper) to your new cellphone the place you wish to set WhatsApp up.
Use RAR as soon as extra to unzip the identical file within the new cellphone’s inside storage and place the extracted folder (ought to be named ‘com.whatsapp’) in the identical listing, which is Internal Storage/ Android/ Media.
Step 5: Install WhatsApp in your new cellphone
You can now set up WhatsApp on the brand new cellphone and whereas going by means of the preliminary course of, skip the Google Drive backup immediate so the app tries to search for an area backup as a substitute. This will make WhatsApp detect the information we restored within the particular listing in Step 4.
Restore the detected backup and proceed to undergo the remainder of the set up course of. Once performed, your WhatsApp account is now prepared on the brand new cellphone. You can now delete the .rar or .zip file that you just created and copied to the brand new cellphone in Step 4.
