Whastapp stopped working in GrapheneOS without Play services

Happend to me too and I needed to reinstall WhatsApp. Which was a pain since WhatsApp allows you to use iCloud or Google Drive for BackUPs (which I didn’t have). There are local backups and WhatsApp also regally backups data to this local backups, but when I tried to set up WhatsApp after removing it, it never gave me the option to use the local backups for restoring data.