Hey guys,

So a little background, between 2015-2017 I’d (stupidly) switched to iPhone and then back to Android again. After much hassle I managed to merge all of the Whatsapp chats, images, and videos together. All my photos and videos were always available to view in chat on Whatsapp until recently where I noticed the app only keeps a couple of years worth of photos. Initially I thought I’d lost all these photos until I got a new phone a couple of weeks ago and reinstalled Whatsapp. It downloaded the whole 8 years worth of images again and I was overjoyed, but anything over 2-ish years has once again disappeared.

Now, I want to download the images and videos from Google Drive onto PC so I have it in one place outside of Whatsapp. I tried looking on the Google Drive website and it’s not allowing me to download the backup. Does anyone know how to do this? I've looked online and found a few applications which does this, but they seem sketchy. I’d preferably like to not reinstall Whatsapp on my phone and mess around with it.

TL:DR – I’ve got 8 years worth of images and videos on Google drive backup. Whatsapp only keeps around 2 years worth of backups on my phone. I want to download it all off Google drive so I have it on my PC.

Thanks