WhatsApp now officially supports cross-platform chat transfers between iOS and Android

21 July 2022
You no longer have to leave WhatsApp chats behind when switching ecosystems.

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Jai, 21 Jul 2022What will happen if we are already moved from android to ip... moreYou can only use the Movie to iOS app to move data only if the iPhone hasn’t been set up. If your iPhone has already been set up, you will be asked to erase the iPhone first.
If you only need to save the chat history for future browsing, you can send the data via email. Check the steps here: https://www.android-file-transfer.com/tutorials/how-to-transfer-whatsapp-from-android-to-iphone/#via-email
To merge the data on both devices, you may have to pay for a third-party app.

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    • Anonymous
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    • 24 Jul 2022

    Ng, 22 Jul 2022Wnatsapp android only backup to google acc, how you can sel... moreYou can’t! That’s what I’m talking about.
    Firstly it’s terribly inconvenient that in order to move your WhatsApp chat history from Android to iPhone, your iPhone must be brand new or you need to reset it to factory settings.
    So you backup your iPhone first, to iCloud, naturally.
    But When you transfer data via “move to iOS” from your android phone to your reseted iPhone, you cannot use your previous iCloud backup.
    So what I did was, after transferring WhatsApp messages to iPhone, I backup them to iCloud from inside WhatsApp app.
    Then I had to reset my iPhone again so I could finally restore both my WhatsApp messages and my entire previous iCloud backup of the phone, my other apps, settings and stuff.
    It’s confusing and such a waste of time.
    That’s why what we actually need is to be able to backup the Android chat history directly to iCloud. That’s what they really need to give us.
    So we won’t need to reset the entire iPhone twice just to have our old Android WhatsApp messages on our iPhone.

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      • Adul Al Salami Kebab
      • gx%
      • 23 Jul 2022

      Yeah no we needed that like 5+ years ago...

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        • Anonymous
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        • 23 Jul 2022

        Zuckerbook, 22 Jul 2022Instead of fiddling and adding new features, can you please... moresure

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          • Zuckerbook
          • p2L
          • 22 Jul 2022

          Instead of fiddling and adding new features, can you please fix the problem about opening the WhatsApp on multiple devices?

          I can open the same telegram account on many phones + many PCs, but same WhatsApp account can only be opened on 1 phone and few browsers. Who cares? Please fix this first and don't worry about cross platform thingy. Nobody is keeping any old messages... If they want to keep their media recieved on whatsapp Google Photos is already backing them up... Thank You Mr Zuckerbook...

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            • 22 Jul 2022

            Anonymous, 22 Jul 2022Good but not great. I had to reset my iPhone twice to make ... moreWnatsapp android only backup to google acc, how you can select restore from icloud on iphone?

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              • Anonymous
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              • 22 Jul 2022

              Good but not great. I had to reset my iPhone twice to make everything work properly because when I restore WhatsApp chats from Android and I can’t restore the existing iCloud backup of my phone. So I restored chats, added them to iCloud, and then restore the entire phone again.
              It should’ve been easier. Why not directly backup to iCloud from Android from the same menu we backup to Google Drive?
              And why all my other apps (Discord, messenger and such) have the chat story within the app regardless of the OS and only WhatsApp has this problem? It doesn’t make any sense.

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                • 22 Jul 2022

                Apple baby, 22 Jul 2022That's great. All the people switching to Apple iPhone... moreThanks

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                  • 22 Jul 2022

                  Anonymous, 21 Jul 2022That's great. All the people switching to Android will... moreThat's great. All the people switching to Apple iPhone will have their chats restored

                    If only WhatsApp did this way earlier before the sunset of Windows Phone in January 2020. This is why I still prefer Telegram as my favoured messaging app. I still have no problem using Telegram or Unigram in my Microsoft Lumia 950 in 2022.

                      yalim, 21 Jul 2022finally...this should have been delivered for many years ag... moremake us wonder why WhatsApp team is so clueless when there are 3rd party paid app that already did what they tried to achieve...

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                        • Joe
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                        • 22 Jul 2022

                        Anonymous, 21 Jul 2022A little bit disappointed, it's only a one way from An... moreBut I think transfer from iOS to android exist

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                          • Mikey
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                          • 21 Jul 2022

                          Anonymous, 21 Jul 2022A little bit disappointed, it's only a one way from An... moreiPhone to Android transfer was always available, FYI

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                            • Billionbenz
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                            • 21 Jul 2022

                            Nice one

                              Why is there no Whatsapp app for smartwatches? Why?

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 21 Jul 2022

                                That's great. All the people switching to Android will have their chats restored

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • sqx
                                  • 21 Jul 2022

                                  A little bit disappointed, it's only a one way from Android to iPhone.

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                                    • Perry
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                                    • 21 Jul 2022

                                    Any Idea when this will become available?

                                    am using 2 mobile devices as am not able to transfer my android Whatsapp data to iOS :-(

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                                      • Tortilla
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                                      • 21 Jul 2022

                                      rizki1, 21 Jul 2022As of the time of this writing, only the Android to iPhone ... moreIPHONE 8 is too low spec and getting outdated,

                                      In no time Apple will discontinue iOS upgrade and App store support.
                                      It's already 5 years old.

                                      A minimum ram for proper IOS flagship experience is 6gb ram
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                                      Iphone 8 2gb ram is too low spec and is time for discontinue support, dragging the iOS further development.

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                                        • yalim
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                                        • 21 Jul 2022

                                        Deagle50uu, 21 Jul 2022This. And even easier would be to just have all the message... morethat would also be nice as far as they give it for free and provide privacy