Lost whatsapps

I have no idea how, but I lost all my WhatsApp messages from 1 person. All my others were fine. I didn’t uninstall and reinstall as to get the missing ones, would have meant I had to go back a few weeks (I didn’t realise for a while, I’d lost them) and I needed the others that weren’t lost. I didn’t want to not have the newer ones of those.

my question - if I uninstalled WhatsApp from my MacBook and reinstalled, would I be able to go back to before I lost them on a back up, without it synching with my phone. So my phone whatsapps would be as they are now, but I’d get back the lost ones on my MacBook.

I didn’t know if the MacBook and iPhone acted independently of each other for WhatsApp.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Nov 13, 2023 5:07 PM

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Nov 13, 2023 7:55 PM in response to ffiscool

ffiscool wrote:

I have no idea how, but I lost all my WhatsApp messages from 1 person. All my others were fine. I didn’t uninstall and reinstall as to get the missing ones, would have meant I had to go back a few weeks (I didn’t realise for a while, I’d lost them) and I needed the others that weren’t lost. I didn’t want to not have the newer ones of those.
my question - if I uninstalled WhatsApp from my MacBook and reinstalled, would I be able to go back to before I lost them on a back up, without it synching with my phone. So my phone whatsapps would be as they are now, but I’d get back the lost ones on my MacBook.
I didn’t know if the MacBook and iPhone acted independently of each other for WhatsApp.

ASk whatsapp https://www.whatsapp.com/contact

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