{"id":73501,"date":"2014-09-25T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=73501"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:27:15","slug":"whatsapp-for-ios-updated-with-returning-support-for-icloud-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-for-ios-updated-with-returning-support-for-icloud-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp for iOS updated with returning support for iCloud backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/ios-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8<\/a> was released, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp<\/a>&#8216;s chat backup feature stopped working. The latest update to the communication app, however, restores iCloud chat backups, along with some other fixes.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp got in early with an iOS 8 compatible update, but its backup was disabled. It wasn&#8217;t clear if this was a problem with WhatsApp, or iOS 8. Luckily, the latest update for WhatsApp, version <strong>2.11.12<\/strong>, fixes that, once again giving you the security of a backed- up chat history, if you choose the option.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, go to <em>Settings <\/em>&gt; <em>Chat Settings<\/em> &gt; <em>Chat Backup,<\/em> where you can choose <strong>how often<\/strong> to backup your chats. WhatsApp backups do not include videos you&#8217;ve shared or received, but all other media can be saved if you choose.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has yet to take advantage of iOS 8&#8217;s interactive notification system, like Skype already has.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download WhatsApp for iOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"WhatsApp chat backups are broken in iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/whatsapp-chat-backups-are-broken-in-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp chat backups are broken in iOS 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WhatsApp beta for Android gets new image features\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-gets-new-image-features\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp beta for Android gets new image features<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WhatsApp bug is resetting some users' privacy settings\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/whatsapp-bug-is-resetting-some-users-privacy-settings\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp bug is resetting some users&#8217; privacy settings<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As soon as iOS 8 was released, WhatsApp&#8216;s chat backup feature stopped working. The latest update to the communication app, however, restores iCloud chat backups, along with some other fixes. WhatsApp got in early with an iOS 8 compatible update, but its backup was disabled. It wasn&#8217;t clear if this was a problem with WhatsApp, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-for-ios-updated-with-returning-support-for-icloud-backups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp for iOS updated with returning support for iCloud backups&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-73501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330100,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73501\/revisions\/330100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73501"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=73501"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=73501"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=73501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}