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Guide to back up and restore chats locally/manually across Androids (lemmy.world)
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There is no such guide on the ridiculously convoluted method as it actually is on Android (WhatsApp's official guide is terrible and doesn't work), so here is mine:

  1. Check if a chat backup happened in the last 24 hours; if not, have WhatsApp make a manual one
  2. Go to Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases
  3. Copy msgstore.db.crypt14 elsewhere

To restore:

  1. Install WhatsApp on the new phone
  2. Open the app, then back out of it immediately
  3. Move the aforementioned msgstore.db.crypt14 copy to the step-2 folder above
  4. Proceed while giving WhatsApp access to all permissions, including contacts (then deny them later if you'd like)
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