WhatsApp Restore from iCloud fails on iPhone 7

Hi,

Thanks, but I've tried all of that and ensured that I comply all of those requirements they mentioned. I'm now trying the following:

- Erased everything off the iPhone 7

- Restoring from iCloud backup all over again

- it's a lot of data, so it is taking some time... will update the result once done.

Thanks!

Hi,

Tried, but no use, that too failed (restoring from iCloud backup).

I have also tried to delete Whatsapp after restoring from iCloud >> then install Whatsapp again >> tried to restore from iCloud via WhatsApp (the option you get during registration of WhatsApp), gets the same error, "Couldn't restore chat history".

I am now erasing all contents again and planning to restore from iCloud and see what happens in my second attempt...

Sigh! Never had to go through this torture before...and I have a lot of very very important data on WhatsApp including my Work related stuff! 😟

Hi,

I did contact them, what they told me is this: 'iPhone 7 hardware is "very different" from previous iPhones and some apps may not support all of its features. This could be a problem with the 3rd party app (which is WhatsApp in this case) and Apple may not be able to help.' They also asked me to try restoring my phone with a better WiFi connection.

I contacted WhatsApp, and they said, they have no control over iCloud backups and thus they may not be able to help - which is fair, because they do not have control over iCloud.

So this is the result now: my WhatsApp is finally okay! I lost about 3 months of data, but that is okay given the terrible situation I was in.

Let me list out everything I did so far:

1. Bought a new iPhone 7, configured iCloud as usual, installed WhatsApp, it suggested that I have a backup of 1.6+GB in iCloud and I could restore from there. I opted to restore, but it failed.
2. Tried to uninstall and install WhatsApp many times, but of no use.
3. Tried to restart the iPhone multiple times, no use too.
4. Spoke to Apple Support, and I've mentioned above what they told me.
5. Contacted WhatsApp, I mentioned what they said too.
6. Erased all contents from the iPhone 7, and set up the phone all over again, I chose to restore from iCloud backup. It took so long for each app to download, WhatsApp download appeared like half way and got stuck. Again, no use. WhatsApp wouldn't load.
7. Erased all contents from the iPhone 7 again, set up the phone again, choosing to restore from iCloud. This time around, I deleted most other apps which were trying to load from iCloud, leaving only WhatsApp.
8. Waited for 2 hours or so...it loaded half way and then I got a pop up message saying, "Restore completed".
9. And I saw WhatsApp installed fully!! But then this happened:
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11. As you can see in the screenshots, when I launched WhatsApp, it asked me to update. And when I click on that 'Update WhatsApp', it takes me to a page in App Store to open WhatsApp!!

12. I then restarted my iPhone 7, went to App Store directly, looked for apps updates, then updated WhatsApp via that. Launched WhatsApp, asked me to verify and stuff, and then the previous chat history was loaded, but only the history from 3 months before!

Sorry for the long winded explanations! But at the end of this, I really don't know what helped this to work! But this is what I've decided:

- Cancel my paid iCloud subscription after this year, 5GB free will be enough for me to deal with Contacts backup and stuff like that.

- Regularly backup my phone to my laptop.

- iCloud backup isn't reliable, from my experience! Also, the user having no control over iCloud backup, meaning, we physically can't access them via any means (not that I know) isn't helping at all!

Thanks!