You could be an iPhone user that really wishes and thinks about switching to an Android device, but because of the amount of data you possess on your WhatsApp, you find it a hard call to make. Well, you ought to cheer up because you are finally getting what you have wished for in years.
WhatsApp will soon let users transfer their chat history, including photos and voice memos, between iOS and Android. However, the – for now- is only available starting with new Galaxy models. To add to this, WhatsApp is yet to mention a word about whether the feature would work vice versa for Android and iPhone.
During Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event, WhatsApp finally confirmed the long-rumored feature. The chat history transfer app is said to be available for Samsung’s newer premium devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3, first and will eventually roll out to other Samsung phones in the coming weeks.
While we understand that the same tool should also work for Android to iPhone chat transfer for WhatsApp users, for the moment, there’s no word when it will be available to users.
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Where will the cross-platform chat history transfer work?
Reports indicate that the chat history feature would be available on Samsung phones running Android 10 or newer versions. Of course, this was apart from the newer premium foldable devices. They further report that the chat transfer would also include images and voice memos.
The messaging platform has said that implementing the chat transfer tool was difficult as the app uses end-to-end encryption. WhatsApp added that migrating chats demanded additional work from all WhatsApp, OS developers, and OEM manufacturers.
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