You can transfer your WhatsApp data to a new phone by restoring from Google Drive or a local backup.
In order to successfully restore a Google Drive backup, you need to use the same phone number and Google account used to create the backup.
To restore your backup:
Note: If you install WhatsApp without any prior backups from Google Drive, WhatsApp will automatically restore from your local backup file.
If you want to use a local backup, you'll need to transfer the files to the new phone using a computer, file explorer or SD Card.
Note:
/sdcard/WhatsApp/
folder, you might see "internal storage" or "main storage" folders.If you want to restore a local backup that isn't the most recent one, you'll need to do the following:
sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases
. If your data isn't stored on the SD card, you might see "internal storage" or "main storage" instead of sdcard.msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt12
to msgstore.db.crypt12
. It's possible that an earlier backup might be on an earlier protocol, such as crypt9 or crypt10. Don't change the number of the crypt extension.