GB WhatsApp App can enhance the recovery rate of accidentally deleted messages by users to 89% through the local backup automatic recovery feature, which is significantly higher than the original 35% of WhatsApp. According to the results of the tests performed by the cyber security company Kaspersky in 2023, the application can recover record messages from storage on a device or SD card within the last 7 days, and for one, its median recovery takes as little as 6.8 seconds, 2.3 times other comparable third-party applications. Think of the market in India, for example. In 2022, the average monthly complaints for local users deleting messages by accident were 1.2 million. However, after using the “Message Backtracking” functionality of the GB WhatsApp App, customer satisfaction rated 94% and the accidental operation recovery rate was boosted by 72%.
Technically, GB WhatsApp App employs an incremental backup encryption algorithm and can automatically generate three backup versions in a day (with an interval of 8 hours in a timestamp), and users can reverse chat records to 30 days. In 2021, Brazilian user Maria successfully recovered a lost business contract through this function, avoiding a potential loss of approximately 27,000 US dollars. According to the Brazilian newspaper “Sao Paulo Page”, its message recovery function on low-end phones (such as Android devices with 2GB RAM) has a 98.5% compatibility rate, and data overwrite probability error rate is under 0.3%. Compared to that, after activating the “self-destruct message” function of Telegram, data recovery success rate is under 5%.
However, this function is inimical to data security. In 2022, a study by the cybersecurity firm Check Point found that the unpatched CVE-2022-36934 vulnerability of the GB WhatsApp App had the possibility to intercept messages via man-in-the-middle attacks in the recovery process with a probability of 12.7%. When users fail to turn on end-to-end encryption (with a default disablement ratio of 68%), the obtained chat logs may be broken into by third-party programs (such as Dr.Fone) with a cracking rate of 1,200 records per second. Despite the possible dangers, Statista statistics indicate that 120 million users globally continue to use its recovery feature, where the Southeast Asian market represents 47%, and the highest number of daily recovery operation times reaches more than 2.3 million times.
Cost-wise, the free recovery model of the GB WhatsApp App saves customers around $38 per year (the average cost of subscription to data recovery software), but its local storage dependency factor makes the size of the backup file as much as three times bigger than that of the official app (occupying an average of 1.2GB per user per month). In 2023, Pakistani developers launched the “Cloud Synchronous Repair Tool”, which can reduce the rate of recovery failure from the industry standard of 11% to 4.5%, but an additional service fee of 0.99 US dollars per month needs to be paid. As worth mentioning here that the message recovery accuracy of the application closely follows the performance of the device: On devices of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chip, the 100,000 message recovery error is 0.02% only, and on Mediatek Helio G35 phones, the rate of errors comes up to 1.7%.
Market mood reveals that the GB WhatsApp App’s message restoration function drove a 37% growth in its download size in 2022, with its weekly installation volume averaging 4.2 million times on APKPure, a third-party app store to Google Play. According to the Sensor Tower report, its “Recall Message and Read Again” feature (providing display of the model of the mobile phone and IP address of the sender of the erased message) is accessed by users an average of 4.3 times a day and is among the main competencies. Despite compliance issues (such as the data jurisdiction controversy under the EU GDPR), this feature is the key motivating factor for 85% of users to require use of the GB WhatsApp App.