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How can I find WhatsApp backup data stored in iCloud?

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Following instructions from previous questions have not helped (more below). I have lost access to my previous phone. I don't have access to any iOS device. I'm trying to recover any WhatsApp message data I might have backed up on iCloud. In my Mac, when I go on Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Manage... and select WhatsApp, I get this, which says I have 2GB in my iCloud Storage: Menu on Mac says WhatsApp Messenger with 2GB written below it. In order to locate those 2GB, I disabled Mac Storage Optimization, went into "Library/Mobile Data" via terminal and searched up for WhatsApp files using: cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ find *whatsapp* The only three results were: 57T9237FN3~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp 57T9237FN3~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp/.DS_Store 57T9237FN3~net~whatsapp~WhatsApp/Documents Navigating into those via terminal, ls -a returns nothing besides what's above. I would have just concluded that dumb me turned off backup at some point to save storage, but then why does it say in settings that there is a 2 GB backup attributed to WhatsApp? Could it be somewhere else? Most of the instructions I've followed come from this thread: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/365950/accessing-whatsapp-icloud-backup However, most go from the find terminal command finding actually .tar files and such, which wasn't my case.
Asked by hananoana (1 rep)
Nov 17, 2022, 04:58 AM
Last activity: Jan 19, 2025, 02:45 PM