WhatsApp adds the experience to deliver your chat history when you change from iOS to Android, including all voice notes, images, and discussions.
Announced the long-rumored (History Transfer) feature. Announced the long-rumored (History Transfer) feature. At the same time, Samsung’s launch event on Wednesday and will initially cover shifts from iOS to the company’s new Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 and other Samsung phones “in the coming weeks.”
Ultimately, the feature will include all transfers among iOS and Android mobiles, though it’s unclear when it’ll be possible for all devices.
The new feature should address one of WhatsApp’s most frustrating factors, which is that it’s never been precisely probable to transfer your chat history among mobile operating systems.
Assume you wish to use WhatsApp’s cloud backup feature. In that event, iOS chat histories are saved in iCloud, while Android’s are in Google Drive, suggesting it’s only reasonable to transfer your chats among phones operating the same operating system.
The new feature transfers chat histories utilizing a physical Lightning to USB-C cable sooner than transferring them via the internet.
Regrettably, if you’ve transferred between iOS and Android in the past and have two separate cloud backups, the latest transfer feature won’t mix them into a single chat history.
Alternatively, WhatsApp informs me that if you utilize it to transfer your chat history and back it up, it’ll overwrite any current backups.
WhatsApp announces the new feature will provide transfers from iOS to Samsung’s new foldable at the front, and it will provide transfers to Samsung devices running Android 10 and up “in the following weeks.”
It refused to say when the feature might appear for non-Samsung Android phones or when it’ll release Android to iOS transfers.
In July, many of the users and experts tweeted that WhatsApp many soon launch this transfer feature for iOS to Android, and this is what WhatsApp proved to them correct by launching the chat transfer feature. Still, it’s only available for the latest Samsung mobiles.