Whatsapp problem

[acsurfer]

Hello everyone,

My old non rooted phone is android version 6.0.1, whatsapp version 2.20.123, Samsung phone, and I saved this WhatsApp/Databases folder msgstore-2020-01-25.1.db.crypt12 to my PC a long time ago.

1. Today if I change a new non rooted phone Samsung A12 and install whatsapp latest version, can I restore msgstore-2020-01-25.1.db.crypt12 to my new phone?

2. Today if I change a new non rooted phone Samsung A12 and install whatsapp latest version, can I restore Google drive whatsapp backup done on 22 Jan 2020 to my new phone?

3. After I restore msgstore-2020-01-25.1.db.crypt12 to my new phone Samsung A12, how to restore to newest local backup so i have all the past message history until latest today history?

4. How to download the whatsapp backup files from google drive and save into my pc? It seems like no way to download it. It seems like only whatsapp app can use it during installation setup.

Thank you.

 

[ashune]

For help with restoring local and Google Drive backups of Whatsapp messages, see: https://faq.whatsapp.com/601558080647471/

Concerning the 3rd question: you can only restore messages during the Whatsapp setup process, so you can only restore a single backup. You can't restore another backup after the setup is complete, unless you uninstall and reinstall Whatsapp again. You should be able to restore all your messages if you create a new backup before changing phones, assuming you haven't deleted any messages between the old backup and the new backup.

Concerning the 4th question: I don't think you can download the Google Drive backup file. Only the Whatsapp app can access it. I think this is the case since 2018 when Google and Whatsapp came to an agreement with which Whatsapp backups won't take up space in Google Drive anymore, so users would have unlimited Whatsapp backup storage in GDrive.