Recently formatted my phone. Reinstalled whatsapp n the imported the backup.
It seems very slow and buggy. After 1-3 mins of usage, the app starts acting up and after a minute or so autocloses.

Has anyone experienced the same?

I’m planning on reinstalling to check whether that fixes the issue. Asking here to see if anyone has experienced something similar and/or has resolved it.

    • GamerBoy705@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      They do, but they don’t explicitly allow restoring from local backups directly within the app anymore. However, if you manually move the backups to a new phone or whatever and then fresh install WhatsApp on that phone, you will be prompted to restore messages from the local backup that’s present.

        • GamerBoy705@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          So did I, about 2 weeks ago, for my dad. It worked. It’s unlikely that anything changed in a week

          • voracread@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Have you checked the official website of WhatsApp? You can only restore local backups if you are on older Android versions. On newer Androids it is only Google backup.

            https://faq.whatsapp.com/6181521285295518/?helpref=hc_fnav&cms_platform=android Nowhere will you find reference to local backup other than this. And my experience confirms it.

            You might have succeeded because you and I might have been part of A/B testing but this is going to be the future.

            • GamerBoy705@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              Maybe that’s it. My dad’s current phone does run an old Android version, so that might be why local backup restore worked. The WhatsApp version was up to date though. I can confirm local backups work on Android 8 and Android 11.