How to request account information
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The Request Account Information feature allows you to submit a request for and export a report of your WhatsApp account information and settings. The report won’t include your messages or information about channels or channel updates.
- To access your messages, you can export your chat history instead.
- To access your channels information, you can request a copy of your channels report. Learn how in this article.
Please note, this feature isn’t available on WhatsApp for Windows.
Request report
- Go to WhatsApp Settings > tap Account > Request Account Info.
- Tap Request Account Report. The screen will update to state Request Sent.
Your report will typically be available three days after the date you requested it. You can refer to the Ready by date while waiting for your report.
Parents and guardians
Depending on where you live, parents and guardians may have certain rights related to their minor’s data, for example:
- The right to access, delete, or correct data, with some exceptions (for example, when we need to protect the safety, security or rights of others).
- To provide parental or guardian consent on behalf of their minor.
If you are a parent or guardian of a WhatsApp user who is a minor, and you’d like to make a data privacy inquiry or request, please contact us through our privacy form.
Create reports automatically
You can request to automatically create a report every month.
- Go to WhatsApp Settings > tap Account > Request Account Info.
- Under Account Information, toggle on Create Reports Automatically.
This will create a new report every month until you choose to turn off automatic reports.
Turn off automatic reports
- Go to WhatsApp Settings > tap Account > Request Account Info.
- Under Account Information, toggle off Create Reports Automatically.
When you turn off automatic reports, you won’t receive a new report every month.
Note:
- Once you request a report, you can’t undo or cancel your pending request.
- If you change your phone number or delete your account, your pending request will be voided and you’ll have to request another report.
- If you uninstall WhatsApp, automatic reports are not created and you’ll need to turn automatic reports on.
Download and export report
When the report is available to download, you'll receive a WhatsApp notification on your phone, stating “Your Account Info Report is now available”. The Request Account Info screen in WhatsApp will tell you the amount of time you have to download the report before it’s deleted from our servers. Because this report contains your information, you should be careful about storing, sending, or uploading it to any other services.
- Go to WhatsApp Settings > tap Account > Request Account Info.
- Tap Download report. A ZIP file will be downloaded to your phone, which includes HTML and JSON files.
- Once the file is downloaded, tap Export report > Export or Export Report. You'll be unable to view the downloaded report within WhatsApp.
- In the share tray that appears, tap the external app you want to export your report to. For example, you can email a copy of the report to yourself.
After you download the report to your phone, you'll have the option to permanently delete the downloaded copy from your phone by tapping Delete report > Delete or Delete Report on the Request account info screen. Deleting the report won't delete any of your WhatsApp account data.
Learn how to export your chat history in this article.