{"id":25773,"date":"2021-08-16T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/whatsapp-gains-the-ability-to-transfer-chat-history-between-mobile-operating-systems.html"},"modified":"2021-08-16T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:42:38","slug":"whatsapp-gains-the-ability-to-transfer-chat-history-between-mobile-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/whatsapp-gains-the-ability-to-transfer-chat-history-between-mobile-operating-systems.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp gains the ability to transfer chat history between mobile operating systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp users will finally be able to move their entire chat history between mobile operating systems \u2014 something that\u2019s been one of users\u2019 biggest requests to date. The company today introduced a feature that will soon become available to users of both iOS and Android devices, allowing them to move their WhatsApp voice notes, photos and conversations securely between devices when they switch between mobile operating systems.<\/p>\n

The company had been rumored<\/a> to be working on such functionality for some time, but the details of which devices would be initially supported or when it would be released weren\u2019t yet known.<\/p>\n

In product leaks, WhatsApp had appeared to be working on<\/a> an integration into Android\u2019s built-in transfer app, the Google Data Transfer Tool, which lets users move their files from one Android device to another, or switch from iOS to Android.<\/p>\n

The feature WhatsApp introduced today, however, works with Samsung devices and Samsung\u2019s own transfer tool, known as Smart Switch<\/a>. Today, Smart Switch helps users transfer contacts, photos, music, messages, notes, calendars and more to Samsung Galaxy devices. Now, it will transfer WhatsApp chat history, too.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp showed off the new tool at Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Unpacked event, and announced Samsung\u2019s newest Galaxy foldable devices would get the feature first in the weeks to come. The feature will later roll out to Android more broadly. WhatsApp didn\u2019t say when iOS users would gain access, but a spokesperson for WhatsApp told TechCrunch the team is working to bring the feature to users worldwide.<\/p>\n

To use the feature, WhatsApp users will connect their old and new device via a USB-C to Lightning cable, and launch Smart Switch. The new phone will then prompt you to scan a QR code using your old phone and export your WhatsApp history. To complete the transfer, you\u2019ll sign into WhatsApp on the new device and import the messages.<\/p>\n

Building such a feature was non-trivial, the company also explained, as messages across its service are end-to-end encrypted by default and stored on users\u2019 devices. That meant the creation of a tool to move chat history between operating systems required additional work from both WhatsApp as well as operating system and device manufacturers in order to build it in a secure way, the company said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour WhatsApp messages belong to you. That\u2019s why they are stored on your phone by default, and not accessible in the cloud like many other messaging services,\u201d noted Sandeep Paruchuri, product manager at WhatsApp, in a statement about the launch. \u201cWe\u2019re excited for the first time to make it easy for people to securely transfer their WhatsApp history from one operating system to another. This has been one of our most requested features from users for years and we worked together with operating systems and device manufacturers to solve it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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