Do you want to delete your WhatsApp conversations from your phone, but keep it somewhere? We explain how to export conversations from WhatsApp to your mail.
This is how you export a WhatsApp conversation
WhatsApp conversations secretly take up a lot of space on your iPhone. But you don’t always want to delete conversations. Maybe it contains important information or it was a special conversation that you would like to keep. Then you have the option to export your WhatsApp conversations to your email. You can keep it, but it no longer needs to take up space in your iPhone storage. This is how you do it:
- Open WhatsApp on your iPhone and go to the ‘Chats’ tab;
- Swipe left on the conversation you want to export;
- Choose ‘More’ and then ‘Export Chat’;
- If you also want to export the photos shared in the conversation, choose ‘Attach media’. If you don’t want that, tap ‘Without media’;
- Then tap on ‘Email’ or another mail app;
- The conversation becomes a .txt zip file and is automatically added as an attachment to your email;
- At ‘To’, enter the email address you want the conversation to go to, as you would with any other email, and tap ‘Send’.
The zip file has now been sent to your email. If you then want to open the file on your laptop, for example, you must first extract the zip file. You can then read back the conversation. In the above steps, it does not matter to which app you send the exported chat. This way you can choose any mail app or another chat app with which you share the conversation with someone else.
Want to know more about WhatsApp?
Do you want to export your WhatsApp because you have a new iPhone? In our tip, you can read how to easily transfer apps to a new iPhone. Curious about what else you can do with WhatsApp? In the video below, we explain even more useful WhatsApp functions that you may not know yet.