How to Backup WhatsApp Locally on Android Phone

Whatsapp data is very crucial in our lives. If you have some essential data that important for future perspective. Then, you need to keep a backup of your WhatsApp data in a safe place. You will learn the simple and easy techniques in this article. 

Introduction

Backup is crucial for everything, whether it is WhatsApp backup or any other application. Here, we will talk about the WhatsApp backup. Its process is straightforward, and you can easily set up to automate WhatsApp Backup to Google Drive. 

Nonetheless, if you want to get manually back up WhatsApp to Google Drive at any time on your Android Phone, then you can quickly get back up within a few minutes. However, WhatsApp Backups to Google Drive are not encrypted. There are several reasons, but the most probable reason is when a user is looking for a technique to back up WhatsApp locally on Android Phone.

On the other hand, one of the other reasons for downloading a local Backup of WhatsApp is when users want to transfer WhatsApp Data to iPhone or any separate Android device.

Method 1: Backup WhatsApp to Local Storage on Android Phone

Even when your Android device is successfully set up to Backup WhatsApp to Google Drive, that means your WhatsApp is encrypted. In this case, your WhatsApp Backup is always saved/copied/downloaded to the internal storage or memory of your Android Phone.

Now, we will explain some simple steps to save WhatsApp to the Local Storage of Android Phones. Therefore, you need to implement every step in the same sequence to get WhatsApp’s manual Backup successfully.

• Firstly, open your WhatsApp and tap on the 3-dot available in the right upper corner. 

• After clicking on these dots, the menu icon will open, and choose the setting option.

• The new option will appear and click on the chat option.

• You can see new options. Hit the chat backup option.

• The next slide will be opened. Click on the Backup button to make a soft copy of WhatsApp Data to the internal storage of your Android Phone.

Additional Note: If you want to get a backup of videos, then you need to check the box of videos; otherwise, by default, you can see it is unchecked. The videos backup option user can choose as per requirement.

Method 2: Backup WhatsApp Only to Local Storage on Android Phone

There will be an alternate method to prevent WhatsApp from saving its Data to Google Drive and force WhatsApp to Backup only to the Internal Storage of your Android Phone.

• Firstly, open your WhatsApp and click on the 3-dot menu icon and choose the Settings option from the list.

• Click on the chat option from the setting menu and tap on the Chat backup.

• Now, hit on the Backup to Google Drive option.

• On the pop-up, select the Never option.

• Now, hit on the Backup icon to start the process of Backing up WhatsApp only to the local storage of your Android Phone.

If you follow the above steps, then you will get the Backup into the Local Storage of your Android Phone. There is another option. If you have an SD card on your phone, you can get the WhatsApp Backup into your SD Card.

How to Access WhatsApp Local Backup on Android Phone?

There is a short and easy process to find out the local Backup of WhatsApp files on Andriod Phones. 

• Open the File Manager App or My files on your Android Phone.

• Then, click on the SD Card or Device Storage. 

• After that, open the WhatsApp folder and move on Databases Folder.

• Here, you can see the WhatsApp Backup Files. 

Conclusion

We have explained the two methods, and both are very simple to execute. If you have insufficient technical knowledge, you can also implement these methods. Also, you can see the path where you can find the WhatsApp data after Backup.