Whatsapp change

Oddjob

Hi, I've just read that Whatsapp is not going to work on oldr Android operating systems from tomorrow.
I don;t want to lose some of the photos I received and sent as messages on it.
Does anyone know if it will still work on a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean 4.2.2?

If it won't, is there anyway I can copy the photos/messages onto my laptop?

Bogof_Babe

Smartphones using Android 2.3.7 and older, and iPhone iOS 8 or older, are those affected by the update.

You should be okay.

Oddjob

Is there anyway that you can back it up?

Bogof_Babe

Sorry can't help with that. Just I read the same article on the BBC News website and quoted what it said about versions before *** being the ones affected.

Don't you back up your photos onto a laptop or something? Or a Cloud account? I only have iOS so not sure about Android.

Oddjob

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Sorry can't help with that. Just I read the same article on the BBC News website and quoted what it said about versions before *** being the ones affected.

Don't you back up your photos onto a laptop or something? Or a Cloud account? I only have iOS so not sure about Android.

I do back up my ordinary photos but not sure how to get the ones off whatsapp. I just looked and found a backup file for whatsapp but can't open it as it is a CRYPT1 file that I can't open

ballyblack

Use google photos app

On an Android phone click on photo and open. Tap 3 dots top right click share......upload to google photos

then on laptop browser go to 'google photos' and sign in

Photo will be there to download

Devlin1976

You can use your phones file browser and navigate to Whatsapp/Media/Whatsapp /images.
That will have all photos sent and received which you can copy to another device or upload to google photos.

Do the same for any video's (Whatsapp/Media/Whatsapp videos)
You can do a full backup of any media and messages by pressing the 3 dots in the top right corner in Whatsapp then select settings/Chats/chat backup,just bear in mind that should you ever change to a newer device and wanted to restore your messages you'd also need to copy all images/videos to the new device or you'd just get a blurry box where there was once a picture.

RumRat

They should automatically have been uploaded to your Google photos.
Check in Google photos app and look for Whatsapp album. I have hundreds in there.

Oddjob

Devlin1976 wrote: »

You can use your phones file browser and navigate to Whatsapp/Media/Whatsapp /images.
That will have all photos sent and received which you can copy to another device or upload to google photos.

Do the same for any video's (Whatsapp/Media/Whatsapp videos)
You can do a full backup of any media and messages by pressing the 3 dots in the top right corner in Whatsapp then select settings/Chats/chat backup,just bear in mind that should you ever change to a newer device and wanted to restore your messages you'd also need to copy all images/videos to the new device or you'd just get a blurry box where there was once a picture.

Sorry, I'm not very technical - Ive found the files but how can I copy them to my laptop?

Oddjob

Thank you for your help.


I copied them to the sd card, then copied them from there onto my laptop. Problem solved!!

Devlin1976

Memory card if your phone has one installed and your laptop has a memory card reader.

Too slow to reply,glad you got it sorted.