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My whatsapp restore stuck on Finishing Up... (99%)

My whatsapp restore has been saying Finishing Up... (99%) for hours, I have tried different devices and get the same thing. It's 131 MB, how can I fix this?

iPhone 6s, iOS 10.0.2

Posted on Oct 1, 2016 11:53 AM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2016 8:03 AM

Had the same problem. We made many tries with restoring from the iCloud (always stuck at 99%) and from the backup on the Mac.

After many tries we have the problem solved now. 🙂

Both iPhones had the same name.

I renamed both of them (iPhone settings/General/About/Name).

Deleted the WhatsApp App on the new iPhone.

Then made a backup of the old iPhone to a Mac (and to iCloud) with iTunes.

On the new iPhone: backup restored from the Mac with iTunes.

I don't know which step was essential. But with this sequence it worked out fine with our iPhone SE / iOS 10.

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My whatsapp restore stuck on Finishing Up... (99%)

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