Backup WhatsApp messages and files to computer using WhatsApp for Web
Backup WhatsApp messages and files to computer using WhatsApp for Web
WhatsApp and Messenger are the world’s top two instant messaging apps. They are both wielded by Facebook company. Our WhatsApp conversations on our cell phone may contain some very significant data and files. Today, we will discuss how WhatsApp users can transfer their talk history, photos and movies from mobile phone to their computers for backup via WhatsApp for web in addition to earlier WhatsApp backup contraptions and methods. In earlier articles, we have several tutorials already covered this topic. For example, WhatsApp for Android has the built-in Email talk or Email conversation feature to permit you select a conversation in WhatsApp and email it to yourself so you can download the WhatsApp talk from email to your computer. Check out more details from following tutorial to backup WhatsApp messages on Android phones. iPhone users can lightly back up WhatsApp data to iCloud server or export WhatsApp talks via email so they can download the WhatsApp backup from email to their computer. Do not miss out this guide to backup WhatsApp messages on iPhone.
Today, we will introduce you WhatsApp for web and how users can make use of this contraption to selectively transfer any talk history or files sent or received in WhatsApp from our mobile phone to PC or Mac. It works with all kinds of phones, like iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows phone, Symbian, etc. This method however does not support batch backup or transfer. It only works well when you need to export a few messages and files from WhatsApp to your computer. For batch data transfer or backup, you can scroll up to the very first paragraph and refer to this linked articles to export WhatsApp talk history and data via email. You can also go after below methods to back up WhatsApp data using third party WhatsApp backup implements.
WhatsApp data backup using third party devices
- Back up WhatsApp messages and attachments from iPhone to computer — using iPhone data recovery software to extract WhatsApp data and others from iPhone to PC/Mac.
- Backup WhatsApp photos, movies and talks from Android to computer — using a Android phone data recovery to export data from phone to computer. This instrument was originally designed to retrieve lost data on the phone. Existing files and deleted files can both be extracted, thus you can also use it as a Android phone data backup program.
Backup WhatsApp messages and files to computer using WhatsApp for Web
Firstly run the WhatsApp for mobile on your cell phone and log in your WhatsApp account there. We will be using WhatsApp for Web on the desktop or laptop end without any third party software or app on either the computer or mobile phone. Click to open the WhatsApp for Web from this direct link. The WhatsApp for Web opens in your default web browser on PC or Mac, such as IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc. You will see a QR code in the WhatsApp for Web window once you open the previous link in your browser. Meantime you will see various methods to scan the QR code using WhatsApp on your mobile.
You will need to scan the QR code using WhatsApp for mobile to log in your WhatsApp account on computer via WhatsApp for Web. You can find more details from go after article about how to use WhatsApp for Web on computer.
To backup WhatsApp messages, photos, movies from mobile phone to computer using WhatsApp for Web, you need to open the WhatsApp conversation from the left menu of WhatsApp for Web in your browser window, then the messages and files sent or received in the talk will be displayed. See below screenshot.
Back up WhatsApp messages to computer
To back up WhatsApp messages to computer, you can copy and paste the messages from WhatsApp for Web to a document on your laptop or desktop. You can also take a screenshot of the WhatsApp for Web window to quickly save the talk history as photo files on your computer. See how to capture screen on Windows ten PC here. Mac OS X users can refer to this tutorial to capture screen on Mac.
Back up WhatsApp photos to computer
From WhatsApp for Web, open the talk conversations, find and right click on the photo you like to save, then you will get a pop-up context menu, you can select “Save Pic As …“, then choose a location and folder on your PC or Mac to save WhatsApp pictures through WhatsApp for Web.
Back up WhatsApp movies to computer
From WhatsApp for Web, open the talk conversations, find the movie in WhatsApp talk, click to play the movie in WhatsApp for Web, then right click on the movie, again you will see a pop-up context menu, choose “Save Movie As…” item from the menu list, choose a hard drive and folder on your Mac or Windows computer to save WhatsApp movies through WhatsApp for web.