WhatsApp allows transferring chat conversations to iPhone

Finally, it is also possible to transfer your WhatsApp conversation history from your Android smartphone to an iPhone. The opportunity had been announced a while ago and was already in the air.

About a year ago, WhatsApp announced at a Samsung event that it would be introducing the ability to transfer conversation history from iPhones to Samsung smartphones. It was also announced that WhatsApp would also make it possible to switch from Android smartphones to iPhones at a later date, and there will be a function that will transfer your conversation history to non-Samsung Android smartphones.

How do I transfer my WhatsApp conversation history?

Basic functions that should have been possible from the very beginning. Yet you will not find the switching functionality immediately where you expect it. If you want to transfer your WhatsApp conversation history to your (new) iPhone, you will now find this function in the Android app “Switch to iOS† In this app you can specify which data you want to migrate to iPhone, now you can also transfer your WhatsApp conversation history (including saved photos, videos and other documents). If you already had WhatsApp on your iPhone, this data will be overwritten.

Anyone who has a Samsung smartphone can transfer their conversation history in an equivalent way with Samsung’s Smart Switch App† New Android smartphones running Android 12 can transfer the conversation history with the built-in migration feature. You do need a USB-C to Lightning cable for both options.

WhatsApp is making progress

Earlier this week, WhatsApp beta users were already presented with the option to export online backups from the cloud storage. Which already revealed that the developers are busy with migration functions of WhatsApp.

Until now, it was only possible to transfer your WhatsApp conversation history through these online backups, but not to migrate it to Android or iOS. Transferring between Android smartphones was also possible by copying the WhatsApp folder in its entirety to the new Android smartphone via Windows Explorer.

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