In case you need to change your SIM card, but want to keep your files, conversations and other WhatsApp data, you can transfer all your information from one card to another without suffering any modification or loss as long as you have followed a procedure prior to the change that ensures that you can keep all your data through a backup.
How does removing your SIM card affect your WhatsApp account?
Although the WhatsApp account is not damaged when changing the SIM, it is necessary to transfer data from the old number to the new number in order to have all the data on the new SIM without any problem, it will continue to work as it did before . To do this you must register your new phone number.
Your WhatsApp profile will be exactly the same as you had with your previous number, the only change it will show will be the phone number, but the rest will not be seen by you or by your WhatsApp contacts.
How can you make sure that your WhatsApp data is not lost when you change your SIM?
WhatsApp has an option that allows you to move all your application data from one phone number to another, to do this you must enter WhatsApp and press the icon in the upper right corner and select ‘settings’, then enter the ‘account’ section and select ‘change number’.
Once you have selected ‘change number’, you must put your old phone number in the first field, and your new phone number in the second field (putting the corresponding international telephone prefix). Then press ‘next’ and decide whether to notify your contacts, so you can use your new number with your old WhatsApp account.
When you change your number on WhatsApp you will continue to have your conversations, contacts and everything you had before making the change, so you should not worry about losing data as long as the change is only a phone number and not a cell phone, because for this you must have a backup in Drive.
What should you do to recover your WhatsApp if you lost the SIM card?
In case you have lost the SIM card, you must notify your mobile operator so that the service of that card is canceled or you can request that the line be transferred to a new chip, which will keep your number. In case you no longer have access to your phone number, you can recover WhatsApp if you previously backed up WhatsApp to Drive.
In case you have lost the cell phone in addition to the SIM card, you must also have a backup if you want to recover your conversations and information, otherwise you will have to start from scratch, since you will not have access to your old conversations.
Always make sure you have a backup of your WhatsApp data in Google Drive, this will prevent the loss of your information and important conversations, to make a backup in the Google Drive tool you must enter the WhatsApp application and access ‘ settings’ by pressing the icon in the upper right corner.
When entering settings, select the ‘chats’ section, then press the ‘backup’ option and choose the frequency with which the backup is uploaded to Drive, you can also do it manually by pressing the ‘save’ option. Once this is done you can access Drive and find your WhatsApp data, conversations and files to restore.
If you change your phone number, will your WhatsApp contacts be notified?
When you change your phone number, WhatsApp notifies the groups you’re in that the number has changed and keeps your information. But in the case of contacts, it is best that you notify them that you have made a change of number and schedule your current number.
Your WhatsApp profile will be intact, but it will show the new number, that is, there will not be two profiles of yours with two different numbers. If your contacts enter your conversation, they can notice the number change, but it is always best to notify them through messages or a WhatsApp status.
