How to Recover Old or Deleted WeChat History [Both iPhone/Android]

About WeChat history recovery

“Honestly, how do I recover previous messages and pictures from the WeChat app? The deleted content seems to have completely disappeared and I can't find it no matter how I look for it. Can you help me with this?”

Recently, more and more users are asking HOW to recover old delete Wechat history, including chat conversations, voice messages, pictures and video clips. However, the answer may not be satisfactory as only some users can recover these data successfully.

So, who has a chance to retrieve deleted WeChat data? WeChat's conversation history is stored in the cloud, not on your phone's memory or external SD card. In addition, WeChat does not have a Windows Recycle Bin-like feature to temporarily save deleted data. Therefore, without a backup, it will be very difficult to recover the Wechat chat history. But we still have chances to do it, scroll down to learn more.

How to recover old/deleted WeChat history [4 Methods]

First of all, you need to confirm whether you have a backup or not on your phone or PC. Things will go easy if you do.

If not, don’t worry about it. You can view those four methods for WeChat history recovery for iPhone or Andriod for your reference. You can find a way to restore the WeChat file in the following.

▶ Method 1. Recover WeChat history from the backup

If you often login to your WeChat account on the computer, you can easily back up your WeChat history. There are two kinds of backup of WeChat conversations and files.

One is to auto-sync recent messages whenever you log in WeChat account on Windows. If you check yes the first time, your recent messages will be auto-synchronized for your phone and PC each time you log in.

Once you lose your WeChat history, you can get it back quickly. But PC only records chat conversations and files when you last time logged in.

If you often back up WeChat chat history on your PC with the function of Backup & Restore, you can recover your WeChat data by the following steps.

Step 1. Scan the QR code and Log in to your WeChat account on your PC. Click three horizontal bars at the bottom of the left corner

Step 2. Select “Backup and Restore” on Windows WeChat, and choose “Restore on phone”.

Step 3. Select the chat logs you want to be transferred. There are more options you can click to choose the exact date or others. Tap “OK” to restore WeChat history.

▶ Method 2. Recover WeChat history from another phone

This method is very helpful if you want to transfer WeChat history to another new phone. You can use the function “Backup & Migrate chats” on your phone to realize WeChat data backup and migration.

Please follow the steps below to restore WeChat data. The steps will be a little bit different between Andriod and iPhone.

Step1. Log in your WeChat on your old phone

Step 2. For iPhone: tap “Me” > “Settings” > “General” > “Backup & Migrate Chats”. 

                For Android: tap “Me” > “Settings” > “Chats” > “Backup & Migrate Chats”

Step 3. Tap “Migrate Chats to Another Device”

Step 4. Choose the WeChat chat history you want to restore on another device. For iPhone, you can choose "Migrate Entire Chat History" or "Migrate Partial Chat History". For Android, you need to tap “Select Chat History”.

Step 5. Use your new phone to log in to the same WeChat account.

Step 6. Scan the QR Code from the old phone. Then your Chats will be restored to your new device automatically.

▶ Method 3. Recover WeChat history from iTunes/iCloud backup (iOS only)

This method only supports iPhone WeChat recovery. Please make sure that you have made a backup for iCloud/iTunes before using this method to restore deleted data and update your iPhone to the latest version of IOS. It's easy to recover files from iTunes backup.

Furthermore, note that iCloud requires you to erase all content and settings before restoring the backup, which means some new data not stored in the backup may be lost and can’t get back anymore. If you don’t mind, please follow the simple steps to restore files from iCloud backup.

Step 1. Check whether you have the latest backup. Tap “Settings” >[You Name] > “iCloud” > “Storage” > “Manage Storage”. Then you can see the date and size of the latest backup.

Step 2. Tap “Settings” > “General” > “Reset” > “Erase All Contents and Settings” to erase all contents and settings on your phone.

Step 3. Set up your iPhone like the first time. When setting “Apps & Data”, tap “Restore from iCloud Backup”.

▶ Method 4. WeChat recovery software for WeChat history recovery (iOS device)

If you want to recover WeChat data without backup, you can use one of the best iPhone data recovery Software, MyRecover for iOS, to restore all lost WeChat data. Besides, it can recover deleted photos, videos, contacts, notes, call history, voice memos, etc. 

★ What can MyRecover for iOS do?

 Preview all lost WeChat data before final recovery.

 Support iPhone/iPad/iPod with iOS 10 and later.

 Recover deleted or lost chat conversations, images, voice messages, videos, contacts, etc.

 Export & save all WeChat history.

Follow the steps below, you can complete data recovery easily and quickly with the AOMEI  iPhone data recovery tool.

Step 1. Free Download and launch MyRecover for iOS on your computer. Switch your iPhone to airplane mode after losing WeChat data avoiding the delete WeChat history covered by new data.

Step 2. Connect your IOS device to the computer and click “Scan Now” to scan old or deleted WeChat data on your iPhone.

Step 3. After the scanning process is finished, MyRecover for iOS will analyze WeChat Chat history automatically. You could choose WeChat from the left panel sorting by types of friends, status, or time. It’s up to you to recover whatever deleted WeChat data.

Conclusion

In a word, using MyRecover for iOS is the best choice when you want to recover WeChat without backup and restore WeChat selectively. If there are backup files, you can restore them from the backup on your PC or iCloud. Choose one as the most appropriate according to your own needs to retrieve WeChat contacts on iPhone or Andriod.