WhatsApp doesn't prompt to restore from local storage I ran into this weird situation, where:

I backed up my WhatsApp to local storage, inside the Databases folder

Then I changed my WhatsApp number (to another new SIM)

Format my HTC Phone (HTC One E9+ Dual SIM).

Copy back all WhatsApp folder back to the Internal Storage

Re-install WhatsApp, but, all it asks me is this (below)

Upon &quot;Skip&quot;, nothing, no chat restored.


I have already renamed the database file as per Restoring your chat history to msgstore.db.crypt12 and also kept the same file with the name msgstore.db.crypt. But, it simply, doesn't even detect it &amp; asks nothing as backup found/restore.
Any guess/idea?
I had problems with this too, and today finally it worked.  I'm not sure which of the following additional steps did the trick, so I'll list both:


I copied the entire WhatsApp folder over from the old phone to the new one (apparently the asker already did this).
After installing WhatsApp, I gave the app all possible permissions before running it: under Settings/Apps, select WhatsApp, tap Permissions, and then select all permissions listed under "denied" and tap "allow" (you can revoke the permissions again after the backup is succesfully restored).


After doing this, running WhatsApp and confirming my phone number, I was finally prompted to restore the local backup. Before that, I had selected "give permission" in the popup from the screenshot above, then approved the permissions it asked for, but apparently this is only for the Google Drive restore. It looks like restoring a local backup only works if the permissions are already present?!