Popper Joe
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Hi folks. I was hoping someone might be able to help me to recover a very important (to me) Whatsap chat. My Daughter worked in Dubai for 12 years up until 2021. Throughout most of this time, we communicated via Whatsap, with my Daughter sending weekly updates from around the world, including many photos and videos. Throughout this time, my Daughter had a Dubai mobile phone number and I had her in my contacts as "Daughter Dubai". All of this chat was always backed up and I successfully changed phones several times during these 12 years. So I was always comfortable that this unique diary of her adventures and our relationship was safe. Then in 2021, my Daughter moved back to live in the United Kingdom and got a new UK phone number. I entered this in to my contacts and for about 18 months we had a new Whatsap chat using this new number, which I entered in to my contacts as "Daughter England". During these 18 months, I also had the original "Daughter Dubai" chat on my phone, and often scrolled through it if I was looking for a particular photograph etc.
A few weeks ago I remember scrolling back through the new "Daughter England" chat, right to the very start of the chat, and noticed a message that stated that "this person has changed their phone number. You are currently chatting with their new number, Tap to add to your contacts."
I remember that I did tap on the message, but then thought nothing more of it. However I have now noticed that the "Daughter Dubai" chat is no longer visible in my chat list, although the Daughter Dubai contact is still in my phone contacts list, with the Dubai number. So I don't know if clicking on that message has in someway deleted the old "Daughter Dubai" chat, or if it simply attempted to add the Daughter England contact details in to my phone contacts, even though they were already there. Clicking on that link may have had nothing to do with the chat disappearing?
Could my Daughter have done something on her settings that might have caused this?
I have not attempted to reload Whatsap at this stage. I am not sure how the backup procedure works with Whatsap. Does it simply take a snapshot of whatever is present on your phone at that time and therefore effectively overwrite everything that had previously been backed up. If that is the case, then should I assume that if Whatsap has performed a backup in the period since the "Daughter Dubai" chat went missing, then the backup now will not include Daughter Dubai chat?
Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks Dave
A few weeks ago I remember scrolling back through the new "Daughter England" chat, right to the very start of the chat, and noticed a message that stated that "this person has changed their phone number. You are currently chatting with their new number, Tap to add to your contacts."
I remember that I did tap on the message, but then thought nothing more of it. However I have now noticed that the "Daughter Dubai" chat is no longer visible in my chat list, although the Daughter Dubai contact is still in my phone contacts list, with the Dubai number. So I don't know if clicking on that message has in someway deleted the old "Daughter Dubai" chat, or if it simply attempted to add the Daughter England contact details in to my phone contacts, even though they were already there. Clicking on that link may have had nothing to do with the chat disappearing?
Could my Daughter have done something on her settings that might have caused this?
I have not attempted to reload Whatsap at this stage. I am not sure how the backup procedure works with Whatsap. Does it simply take a snapshot of whatever is present on your phone at that time and therefore effectively overwrite everything that had previously been backed up. If that is the case, then should I assume that if Whatsap has performed a backup in the period since the "Daughter Dubai" chat went missing, then the backup now will not include Daughter Dubai chat?
Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks Dave
