This tutorial is about How to manually import / export / transfer Whatsapp chat backup / history from one phone to another instantly with or without an SD Card. If you have been wondering how you could go about the above and avoid loosing your Chat history you may have been keeping for long just because of a mobile phone change.
It should be noted that using the Whatsapp inbuilt Chat backup feature, one is able to backup all chats, history, videos, images and audio depending on ones back up preferences. For many phones, these chats are locally stored on the SD memory card while on many other brands like the Tecno W2 or others which supports no SD cards, the back up is locally stored on the internal phone memory.
Whether your Whatsapp backup is stored on the internal memory or SD card, the fact is that this article will take you through the entire how to manually import / export / transfer Whatsapp chat backup / history from one phone to another instantly. Please follow the following below prompts to perform your Whatsapp chat backup.
Requirements
– Phone or [[[SD Card]]] containing backup chat.
– [[[New phone]]] you to transfer chats to.
– A computer and [[[USB cable]]] for Internally stored backup.
How to manually Export / Transfer Whatsapp chat backup
1. Connect your Phone to a computer through USB cable.
2. Select USB storage / MTP under USB options.
3. Navigate to the SD Card / Internal storage
4. Open Whatsapp folder and open Database
5. Copy the database folder and store it in any location on your PC.
How to manually Import / transfer Whatsapp chat backup
1. Connect your Phone to a computer through USB cable.
2. Select USB storage / MTP under USB options.
3. Navigate to the SD Card / Internal storage
4. Open Whatsapp folder and open Database
5. Copy and paste the Stored database folder into the same folder on your new phone.
Once you are done with the above, follow the following below steps to Activate imported Whatsapp backup chat on your new phone.
1. Launch Whatsapp and enter your phone number
2. Accept on Import Backup and wait for them to transfer.
