How to recover WhatsApp media after getting a new phone? I bought an iPhone 8 to replace my iPhone 6. I was able to migrate absolutely everything via the "Quick Start" functionality.

However, when I opened WhatsApp on my new phone, all the media sent via WhatsApp was gone. For example, I had a collection of "starred" GIFs that now is only displayed as a bunch of items without an image, and when I try to select one of them I get a "This item could not be selected. please choose a different item" error message.

How can I recover the WhatsApp media (including the GIFs) from my previous phone? I still have the iPhone 6 with all its data.

Thank you.
Backup your Whatsapp data in your old iPhone 6 to iCloud. Once it's successful, restore the backup data on your new iPhone 8.

Hope this helps.

I don't think there is any other way to restore it.