In this article you will learn how to see my WhatsApp conversations archived in Gmail from any computer and in this way get an email backup of the most important chats within WhatsApp.
Whatsapp allows us today to use two ways to back up our WhatsApp chats today, we can make backup copies to our Google Drive account and thus be able to have backup in case we uninstall the application or change devices after an accident, we can also send manually the chat of a contact especially by email Gmail or another email client you use.
Saving WhatsApp conversations by email is very simple to do, with just a few steps you can do it yourself and have a complete WhatsApp backup within Gmail.
How to save Whatsapp conversations in Gmail?
- To start we must enter our WhatsApp, and look for the conversations, there we will look for the contact and enter.
- When entering we must look for the icon with points that lets us go to “Settings” of this conversation and among the options that the drop-down menu lets us see, we must click on the “More” option and there a second menu is displayed that allows us to see but, in these options you must click on “Send chat by mail”.
- With this option we can send the complete chat with dates, times and users in a file within Gmail.
- When we are in the new window after clicking on the “Send chat by mail” option, it will ask us to confirm if we need to place the attachments of this conversation here within the mail and we can choose “Attach files” or “No files” , in this way you will add images or videos of said conversation to the mail.
- These files that you attach, if you ask them to be attached to the email, will not be sent within the conversation, they will be sent as an email attachment.
- You will see that by selecting this option you will go directly to your default email, it will allow us to view the attached files and the chat in text format, it will ask us for the email to which this data will be sent.
- You can send the email immediately or leave it in the “Draft” option to consult later who to send this information to.
- When it is sent, the text document will arrive with all the information of the WhatsApp chat and attached if we accept, the images or videos.
Aspects to consider:
- The images and videos will arrive attached to the email, never within the text document, since it is an extract of the text within the WhatsApp chats and it is not possible to attach images within the text, therefore, attachments are sent in the email .
- The file containing the WhatsApp chat that you have selected can be viewed even with Wordpad for the convenience of the user who will receive it.
- You will see the text mechanically, it will not be the same format that you see in your WhatsApp application but the data of each message will be there, such as date, time, contact that sent each message.
- This option of “Send chat by mail” is an alternative to create backup copies, since in this way you can copy text as it is there and share it if you wish.
With this step by step you will be able to have an alternative to save your WhatsApp conversations in a simple and fast way, with an Email backup, that when you download your WhatsApp backup you can save it on a Pendrive, Solid Disk and other extremely safe options . If this article was helpful, you can stay at miracomosehace.com and learn much more about WhatsApp and its features.
