Question

If I create a Whatsapp Chat backup on my iPhone and save it on ICloud, how can I find it again?

I couldn't find it on my Mac via ICloud Drive or on icloud.com. Where exactly does Whatsapp save this backup?

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Solution 2

I would very much like to answer my question myself, now that I have become a little smarter on this subject. Maybe I can help one or the other even if it's just one.

My problem was, I made a Whatsapp backup on the ICloud, but couldn't find it on my Mac in "ICloud Drive" or on "icloud.com", so it was really strange.

Until I discovered that ICloud Drive doesn't show me all things, for example with the Finder. I was able to find these hidden files using the terminal.

First you switch to the directory

cd /Users/$(whoami)/Library/Mobile\ Documents

The "ls" command can be used to find things that the Finder cannot find.

To show more hidden files "ls -a", but in my case "ls" was sufficient

Then

     ls |grep whatsapp

     82G3428HV4~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp

We can, for example, copy this into the home directory to look at it

cp -rf "82G3428HV4~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp" ~/whatsapp

OTHER TIPS

You can't access the WhatsApp backup as a file and only the latest backup is maintained. You can see its size in Manage Storage on iCloud. When you reinstall WhatsApp on the same or new iPhone, it will prompt you if you want to restore from iCloud backup.

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