light way, but not available everywhere: export the chats one by one, as per https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat-history/?lang=en https

light way, but not available everywhere: export the chats one by one, as per https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat-history/?lang=en https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat... Saves them as text files, copy them off the phone. hard way: root the phone, copy the database, decrypt it with https://stackpointer.io/security/decrypt-whatsapp-crypt12-database-messages/559/ https://stackpointer.io/security/decrypt-whatsapp-crypt12-da... and the key on the phone. The decrypted db files are overengineered sqlite databases.