I merged two different WhatsApp chat histories 5 years ago, if I switch phones now, will all chats be restored?
I used to have two phones: phone A with one WhatsApp account and phone B with a completely different WhatsApp account.
About 5 years ago, I decided to stop using the WhatsApp account from phone B and also stop using phone A altogether. So I removed the WhatsApp account from phone B and transferred the chats from phone A to phone B.
But something unexpected happened: the old chats that originally belonged to phone B didn’t disappear. They stayed there together with the chats transferred from phone A. For me, this was actually great because I ended up having everything merged into one device.
Now, 5 years later, I’m replacing phone B with a new phone C. I already made a backup of the current WhatsApp on phone B, which now contains both the original chats from B and the chats transferred from A.
My question is: when I restore this backup on phone C, will it restore absolutely everything that currently exists on phone B? Including those old chats from the original WhatsApp B that were “accidentally preserved”? Or could WhatsApp restore only the chats originally associated with this account from phone A and ignore the old B chats?
Has anyone experienced something similar?