How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages on iPhone without Backup

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Just like other instant messaging apps, WhatsApp makes it possible for iPhone users to share interesting things with their family and friends by simply sending them messages, pictures, videos or other attachments. Browsing the WhatsApp messages on iPhone, it's easy to find something interesting and worthy of treasuring, which may be one sentence, or just a piece of video.

However, people may easily lose these important WhatsApp messages and attachments when freeing. So in this guide, we provide you an easy and quick method to help you recover deleted WhatsApp messages on iPhone X/8/7/6S/6/5S/5.

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Tools We'll Use to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages on iPhone

1. PhoneRescue - An easy-to-use data recovery tool for both Android and iOS devices users. With PhoneRescue - iOS data recovery, you can directly recover WhatsApp messages and attachments from iPhone or retrieve WhatsApp chat history from iTunes or iCloud backup. Additionally, it is free to use it to scan all of your WhatsApp chat history on iPhone or iPhone Backup.

2. One Computer (Mac or PC).

3. Your iPhone with its USB cable.

How to Recover WhatsApp Messages and Attachments on iPhone X/8/7/6S/6/5S/5

iMobie PhoneRescue offers you 4 Recover Modes for recovering your lost WhatsApp Messages and Attachments on iPhone: Recover from iOS Device, Recover from iCloud Backup, Recover from iTunes Backup and Recover with DFU Mode. You can read How to Choose the Suitable Recovery Mode to choose on suitable way to get back WhatsApp messages. And below, we will take the first Mode for example and provide you the steps about how to directly recover WhatsApp messages and attachments on iPhone.

Step 1. Download PhoneRescue, install and launch it on computer.

Step 2. Connect your iPhone to computer and select Recover from iOS Device. Let PhoneRescue start scan your iPhone by clicking the button at the bottom right.

Step 3. By default, all categories will be selected. Please uncheck Select All option and then choose WhatsApp. Click Ok to start scanning.

Step 4. After PhoneRescue finished the scan, click WhatsApp and WhatsApp Attachments to view deleted chat history you want to recover. Click the Recover to Computer button.

Note: If your WhatsApp messages are overwritten, you can't use this method to recover them. In this situation, you can try to retrieve deleted WhatsApp chat from iTunes Backup or iCloud Backup.

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The Bottom Line

Actually you can try all of the recover modes of PhoneRescue to scan your WhatsApp chat history. And if you have some problems when using PhoneRescue to recover WhatsApp messages on iPhone X/8/7/6S/6/5S/5, please email our Support for help.