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WhatsApp can also be confusing. It's a message client but yet is tied to your phone number. I recently logged into a backup phone that has WhatsApp on it. The r
by bmitc 4y ago
WhatsApp can also be confusing. It's a message client but yet is tied to your phone number. I recently logged into a backup phone that has WhatsApp on it. The reason WhatsApp is in the backup phone is because you cannot backup between iOS and Android. So I left it there. i recently got a new phone, so I tried to back up WhatsApp, but it claims no such backup exists, which is not true. So I log into the backup phone and see that WhatsApp has discontinues support for that phone or version of Android. That was a change that occured over just a month or so of not logging in, and I received no warning. There's no way to get around it. And I think that action is potentially what deleted my Google Cloud backup of WhatsApp. It's a mess, and I have potentially lost years of messages.
- ValentineC 4y ago> The reason WhatsApp is in the backup phone is because you cannot backup between iOS and Android. So I left it there. i recently got a new phone, so I tried to back up WhatsApp, but it claims no such backup exists, which is not true. You can migrate between iOS and Android, but I think Android > iOS is a very recent feature. iOS backs up to either iTunes as part of a phone backup, or separately to iCloud within its own app container; and Android backs up to Google Drive. I'm very surprised that WhatsApp on iOS doesn't support Google Drive either, given that it's the more "open" of the two. [1] https://faq.whatsapp.com/1295296267926284/ https://faq.whatsapp.com/1295296267926284/ [2] https://faq.whatsapp.com/686469079565350/ https://faq.whatsapp.com/686469079565350/