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Is there a way to get the Whatsapp messages on iOS? Years ago they were accessible via a sqlite DB, but it's been ages since I did it, and I can't find any online resources about this other than people shilling dodgy .exe apps.


You can still pull the database from an iOS backup on your Mac or created from `idevicebackup2`.

The file is named `1b6b187a1b60b9ae8b720c79e2c67f472bab09c0`, `275ee4a160b7a7d60825a46b0d3ff0dcdb2fbc9d`, or `7c7fba66680ef796b916b067077cc246adacf01d`.


Thanks very much! This does indeed work, for anyone else keen to do so using OSX:

1. Make sure you've recently backed up your iPhone

2. Open up terminal and $ open ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/Backup

3. Pick the relevant Backup folder (look at the most recently updated column)

4. To find the files mentioned by umanghere, go to the folder with the relevant starting characters. Eg: 7c7xxx is in the '7c' folder.

5. Find the file and open using any SQLite browser. For OSX, this is a decent and simple option: https://sqlitebrowser.org/

From there, once you figure out the tables, you can ostensibly write a script to also migrate your chats from Whatsapp to Signal.

For media transfer, this may also be helpful (though I haven't tried it myself): https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365950/accessing-w...

I may write a script for this if I get a weekend free soon, but happy if anyone else does it as well.


You can export your message history for every chat, I believe including photos and videos. Just need to go to the Group Info screen and then scroll all the way to the bottom.


Just as a side info: unfortunately this won't work in Germany, since that feature was disabled there.


Wouldn't uninstall, switch to the US app store, and reinstall do the trick?


Why?




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