I was so confident that WhatsApp was backing itself up to Google ever since I got my new pixel but I just wasn’t. Then yesterday I factory reset my phone to fix something else and I lost it all. Years worth of chats from so many times in my past just aren’t there, all my texts with my mom and my family, group chats with old friends… I can’t even look at the app anymore, I’ll never use Whatsapp as much as I used to. I just don’t feel right with this change. There’s no way to get those chats back and now it doesn’t feel like there’s any point backing up WhatsApp now! I really wanna cry like this is so unfair!! And all I had to do was check Whatsapp before I did a factory reset… the TINIEST THING I could have done and prevented this and I didn’t fucking do it!!!
How do I get past this?
Alright, well you may be out but you seem out to paint me like an instigator here so I will respond the once more.
If WhatsApp doesn’t provide a way to test their backups, that sucks. It doesn’t make the adage “an untested backup is no backup at all” any less true, it just means that WhatsApp doesn’t allow best practices when it comes to backing up your chats. I only push back because I find it hard to believe there’s no way to import a backup to a desktop installation, and your initial points were incorrect, but I don’t use the app myself and I don’t feel like signing up just to test it. I do enough of that nonsense at work. Take care, I guess.
You’re downvoting and calling me wrong based on 30 seconds of research, so I’d say you are the instigator.
The backups in Google Drive are not accessible to you. The source you found doesn’t contradict me, because it doesn’t mention being able to access that backup, only delete or disable them.
You can only transfer your account, which doesn’t test the backup. Getting to the stage where you’ll be able to test the backup leaves you not logged in. The backup process needs a SIM.