How to Recover WeChat Chat History/Messages on iPhone

Sometimes, your WeChat messages may get lost due to accidental deletion, system crashes, virus attacks, or update failures. If that happens, don't worry, there are some things you can doto take your deleted WeChat history back.

Part1. How to RetrieveWeChat Messages from a Computer

Restoring WeChat historygonna be easy if you've backed upyour WeChat messages to a computer. If so, you canperform a "Restore" on your computer to get your lost chat history back. Here are the steps.

Step 1. Log in to your WeChat accounton your PC.

Step 2.In the bottom left corner, click the Menu button and select"Backup and Restore."

Step 3. Choose "Restore on the phone."

Step 4. Select chat histories to transfer. You can also click "More Options" to select data based on the date, or you can also choose to recover text messages only.

Step 5. Click "OK" to recover them.

Part 2. How to Recover WeChat History from Another iPhone

This method can be helpful when you plan to transfer the WeChat messages from an old iPhone to a new device. First, you'll need toswitch on Wechat Migration on your old iPhone. Follow these steps to do it.

Step 1.Log in to your WeChat on your old iPhone.

Step 2. Tap "Me" > "Settings" > "General" > "Backup &Migrate Chats."

Step 3. Tap "Migrate Chats to Another Device."

Step 4. From where you can choose "Migrate Entire Chat History" or "Migrate Partial Chat History."

Step 5. Then, you can log in to WeChat on your new phoneusing the same credentials.

Step 6. Scan the QR code shown on your old phone. After that, all of yourWeChat chat histories will be migrated to your new device.

Part 3.Restore Lost Wechat Chat History from iTunes Backup

If you must recover your lost WeChat history no matter what methods to use, you canrestore your iPhone from an iTunes backup. To use this method, make sure you've made an iTunes backup before. Besides, note that iTunes requires you to recover the whole backup to your iPhone, andall data on your device will be overwritten. If you don't mind that, just follow thesesteps to restore lost Wechat chat history.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and launch iTunes.

Step 2. On the left pane, click on your device icon.

Step 3. Click "Summary" and then click "Restore Backup."

Step 4. Now the latest backup will be restored to your iPhone.

Part 4.Restore WeChat Historyfrom iCloud Backup

Likewise, you can also restore deleted WeChat messagesfrom iCloud if you've made an iCloud backup. But this requires youto erase all content and settings on your iPhone to make room for the iCloud backup. If you don't minddata loss, just follow these steps to recover WeChat messages from iCloud backup.

Step 1. Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.

Step 2. Tap"General" > Select "Reset"> Tap "Erase All Content and Settings."

Step 3. Enter your password and tap "Erase iPhone."

Step 4. Set up your iPhone as the first time you did.

Step 5. When you come to the "Apps & Data" page, choose "Restore from iCloud Backup."

Part 5.Recover Deleted Data from iPhone in an Easy and Quick Way

Data loss can happen to anyone at any time.That's why backing up your iPhone regularly is important. But people may have trouble remembering to back up their devices.To prepare for the worst situation where you lost important files without any backups, you canhavethis iPhone data recovery tool - Qiling MobiSaver installed on your computer.

With Qiling MobiSaver, you can recover deleted iPhone messages, contacts, videos, notes, and many data with ease. Before restoring, you can preview the recoverable data and selectively recover wanted data to your device.

Let's take messages, for example. To recover deleted messages onyour iPhone, you can follow these steps:

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Step 1. Connect iPhone to Your PC

Launch Qiling MobiSaver. Click "Recover from iOS device" on the left andclick "Start".

Step 2.Scan for Lost iPhone Data

Qiling MobiSaver will automatically scan iPhone/iPad/iPod,and find present data and even some lost data for you. Just wait for the scan to complete.

Step 3.Click the "Recover" Button

You can choose the lost data such as your photos, videos, contacts, SMS, notes, voice mails, and other files you want to recover and save those data to another location.

The Bottom Line

These are all solutions to recover deleted WeChat messages from your iPhone. We hope the methods introduced above are helpful. As you can see, data loss frequently happens in our life. So, it's important to export your iPhone data to a computer for safekeeping. If you think thatis time-consuming, you can also download Qiling MobiSaver on your computer. Thus, you can get your lost/deleted data back even there's no backup available.

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