Whatsapp restore

userofgos

anselmschueler I only have a backup on Google Drive, and I don't see any option to get the backup as a file.

Just download the WhatsApp folder from Google Drive and then restore that folder to Android/media/com.whatsapp/

See my post in the following thread on how to restore a local Whatsapp backup: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/422-how-to-restore-a-whatsapp-backup/43

anselmschueler

userofgos The WhatsApp backup isn’t a normal folder on Google Drive. I’m not sure what you mean by downloading it. I wish there was a way to do that but I can’t find it.

legreteco

anselmschueler I don't know why, but it worked like that for me. Some features of an app might be more relient on play services than others. I guess it is for authorization of WhatsApp to use the google account.

W1zardK1ng
Yup, it's a risk everyone has to personally evaluate if they want to take it.

userofgos

anselmschueler I wish there was a way to do that but I can’t find it.

I thought there was a way. Do you have a spare Android device? A workaround would be to restore the Google Drive backup on that phone, then do a local backup ans copy that to a USB and then copy it onto your GrapheneOS device

anselmschueler

userofgos interesting possibility. I do have an old Android phone, though I wonder if WhatsApp will even run on it… I’ll try it

bytefive

anselmschueler I also had this issue of it not showing my account. The solution was to give WhatsApp permission to access media when it asked for it (for whatever reason).

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