Losing messages is something unbearable in all the ethics and generations. We can’t keep communications in mind, and that’s the reason we do messaging and the best technologies provide us with some exceptional features, including ones to transfer, backup, and restore the data. Mostly, people get difficulties with backing up WhatsApp messages and transferring them to a modified version like the one we offered you most recently.
If messages are like the easily breakable glasses for you, and you’re seeing problems in transferring messages from modified WhatsApp Plus to the official version, i.e., WhatsApp Messenger, this article is unquestionably designed for you. It’s a procedural guide that you can follow to learn the best and most possessive way of transferring WhatsApp Plus messages to WhatsApp.
In case if you’re going to take a change and get back to the official version, you can use this guide as a helper. This guide contains nothing, but the simple and straightforward process, where you’ll use your phone’s File Manager, WhatsApp Plus app, and WhatsApp Messenger app to make the transfer done in moments.
Let’s not waste any more time and get straightly to the procedure steps listed below:
Steps to Transfer WhatsApp Plus Messages to WhatsApp
The best way of messaging online is through using the WhatsApp Mods, as they aren’t just conventional to proffer you the worthwhile tactics, but they also offer you convenience while completing some important procedures. One of the essential procedures to keep in knowledge before getting switched to the official WhatsApp Messenger from WhatsApp Plus is data transfer without lacking anything.
We have parted the procedure into three different parts so that you will understand the whole procedure conveniently and will complete them all in the up to 10 steps per partition, unlike more than 30 steps of a single.
Part 1: Taking Backup of WhatsApp Plus Messages
WhatsApp Plus messages can be backed up very simply and restored to the official WhatsApp Messenger. The first part of the procedure is taking the backup of messages and media files in the WhatsApp Plus app.
This would require a traditional method to be done and that’s what we’re doing on a Xiaomi smartphone (will work for all Android phones likewise) below:
- Launch the WhatsApp Plus app on your phone.
A - Click the top-right corner three-dot Options icon.
B - Choose Settings from all those listed options in the menu.
C - Among the Settings menu, tap the Chats option as we’re backing up chats.
D - Inside the Chats menu, select and click the Chat Backup option.
E - Enable the last checkbox for backing up media files within those messages.
F - Click the green Back Up button on the mid-screen to start the backup procedure.
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Soon, the backup procedure will get completed, and you need to wait for the process bar to be completed to 100%. Afterward, you’re good to go with the second part of the process, which is renaming the folder to the one compatible with the official WhatsApp Messenger.
Part 2: Renaming the Backup Folder
Basically, the backup you created is the data of WhatsApp Plus, so it won’t work for the official WhatsApp Messenger application.
Now, we need to modify that backup folder to the backup for official WhatsApp Messenger using the below listed steps:
- Open the File Manager app after completing the first part of the procedure, which is listed above.
A - Get to the root folder of local storage and copy the WhatsApp Plus named folder to Downloads folder.
B - Open the Downloads folder where you recently copied the WhatsApp Plus folder.
C - Rename that folder to WhatsApp, including all the subfolders inside that folder, everywhere where there is WhatsApp Plus to WhatsApp. (For example – WhatsApp Plus Images to WhatsApp Images and WhatsApp Plus Documents to WhatsApp Documents)
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After copying and renaming the backup folder, you can get forward to the final part of the procedure, i.e., transferring the data backup and finalizing the WhatsApp Messenger data restore.
Part 3: Installing WhatsApp Messenger and Restoring the Backup
The final part will clear your final consequence and show you the optimistically simple way of transferring the chat backup and all media backup from WhatsApp Plus to WhatsApp.
As of now, when we do a back research, we have successfully backed up WhatsApp Plus data in the first part, and modified it to work exceptionally for WhatsApp Messenger in the second part.
Finally, the third part is where we’ll install the WhatsApp Messenger app and verify the transaction:
- Open the Google Play Store app on your smartphone and download the WhatsApp Messenger app from there.
- After downloading and installing the app, open the File Manager app and there is the Downloads folder where we recently copied and renamed the backup folder.
- Copy the WhatsApp renamed folder and paste it back to the root folder of the storage.
- Now, open the WhatsApp Messenger app, agree to the terms & conditions, and enter your region with the WhatsApp number.
- Click the Verify button and agree for all the important permission allowances.
- Inscribe the one-time password on the screen and click the Verify button.
- Wait for the verification and skip the Google Backup option.
- Now, you will be pinged with the recent data backup to Restore it with a one-click button.
- Click that Restore button and wait for the completion of backup restoring.
- Complete the detail filling, including your profile name and uploading a profile picture.
Now, the messages will start taking place on your phone’s WhatsApp Messenger interface as it were listed before in WhatsApp Plus.
Everything will be placed straightforwardly on the interface, and you’ll see no data loss if you have completed all the above steps carefully and renamed all those subfolders precisely from WhatsApp Plus to WhatsApp.
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