Mobile phones, like other devices today, have a reduced usage time when compared to devices from previous decades. This is mainly due to the planned obsolescence Yet the advertising.
These reasons make a person change the model of their Smartphone every year on average. This makes millions of data need to be migrated between devices all the time. That is why many applications offer the possibility of transferring user information.
WhatsApp is one of them and the method to achieve it is quite simple. To know how to perform this procedure and avoid copying your old ones one by one contacts, we recommend that you read this post.
How does the WhatsApp contact list work?
The contact list of WhatsApp It is nothing more than a copy of all the contacts stored on your mobile that in turn have the app installed on their own phones. Unlike the original, this list also adds other information, such as "Display name" and "Info".
All this, added to the profile image are saved automatically on the servers. So they are still available on new devices and on the web version of the platform. But when migrating these contacts, also it is possible to add all the conversations of the chats and also the multimedia files. This is very useful since we can continue using the message search engine on our new mobile.
Learn step by step how to recover your deleted contacts on your WhatsApp
Before you get rid of your old phone, you should make sure you have followed the steps that we will indicate below. This way you no longer have to worry about transferring your contacts one by one.
Let's see what they are:
- Login to the app from your old mobile.
- Once there, click on the three points listed in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Within this menu choose "Settings".
- Then do the same in section "Chats".
- At the end of this list you will find the option "Backup", press there.
- In this window you can see the date of the last backup, in addition to the periodicity configuration, Google account, connection type and "Include videos".
- The latter adds to your backup all videos of all chats stored on mobile. If you activate it, it may the file size to be recovered later is much larger.
- Corroborate the data and press "Save".
- After these steps, contacts, chats, pictures and videos (optional) they will get on the available space in your personal cloud of Google drive. In the event that you already have a previous copy, it will be overwritten.
The process may take time and depends on the internet connection speed that you own. Regarding this, we recommend that you do it using a Wifi network. When finished, you can stop using the old mobile and continue with the steps on the new one.
For it:
- Access the application "Play Store" and download WhatsApp.
- Make sure to insert the SIM card (with the old number) on your new device.
- Once installed, open WP and enter the phone number.
- In the configuration process, a poster will appear asking if you want restore copy what do you have stored in Drive.
- Press "To accept".
- Wait a few moments and all the information that you had in the previous WhatsApp will remain intact in the new.
We also want to recommend that you enter the chat options again (with the new mobile) and activate the option that allows automatic copy in you Drive. Since in case you cannot recover your mobile (breakage or theft), do not lose the information of the app.