Hey I have a bit of a complicated issue. Basically my dad recently left the company he's working at. Over there they supplied him with a company phone (Samsung S3) and a company SIM card, upon leaving he was asked to return the SIM card but not the phone. He had a lot of personal conversations saved on the phone/whatsapp account which he saved to google drive before he wiped the phone (he thought that the company would ask for it back and so he chose to erase all data). Now that he's been allowed to keep the phone, he'd like to restore all the chats he previously had, however they are attached to the old (company) SIM card, meaning that when he verifies his new number on the app, he is not given the option to restore backed up chats even though they are saved on his google drive.
Put short, he has the chats saved on google drive, however he isn't prompted to restore them because he's using a new mobile number.
Is there any way to restore the old chats without having access to the old whatsapp number (because he has already returned his SIM card).
Put short, he has the chats saved on google drive, however he isn't prompted to restore them because he's using a new mobile number.
Is there any way to restore the old chats without having access to the old whatsapp number (because he has already returned his SIM card).
