WhatsApp makes it easier to transfer chats from iPhones - starting with Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3

Date:
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:02:01 +0000

Description:
Samsung announced that you can easily transfer your WhatsApp chats from iOS
to the Z Fold 3 and Flip 3.

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WhatsApp and Samsung have announced that its about to get a whole lot easier in transferring your chats from one smartphone to another, starting with the
Z Fold 3 and the Flip 3 .

At the Samsung Unpacked event, it was announced that you will be able to transfer your entire chats from your WhatsApp account on your iPhone - thats photos, group chats, voice notes, all to Samsungs newest foldable smartphones first, with other Android devices to come.

Transferring your content from your old smartphone to a new one has always been a challenge, and while both Android and iOS have offered tools to do this, apps with encrypted content added another challenge in making sure your content was transferred correctly and securely. This is especially true if
you were moving from an iPhone to an Android device (or vice versa). With
this new feature from WhatsApp, it looks to be much easier now, albeit only
on Samsung phones to begin with. WhatsApp is finally testing multi-device support for your account Everything we know about the iPhone 13 so far We speak to WhatsApp about multi-device support and more One galaxy to another

Having had experience in a past job of helping users transfer their content from one old smartphone to a brand new one across iPhone and Android devices, WhatsApp was one of the big priorities for customers at retail in making sure that their chats transferred across. But the method to achieve it usually
took longer than what was expected, with some content simply refusing to transfer over.

However, now it will be much easier to transfer your WhatsApp content across different smartphones. Users will be able to move their WhatsApp chat history to Samsung phones first, starting with the new Samsung Galaxy foldables.
Other users who have a Samsung device that runs Android 10 and above will
also be able to use this feature in the coming weeks.

Your WhatsApp messages belong to you. That's why they are stored on your
phone by default, and not accessible in the cloud like many other messaging services, explains Sandeep Paruchuri, product manager at WhatsApp. Were 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. Analysis: moving your data is finally an easier affair

Having been asked repeatedly about whether WhatsApp content could be transferred, it was a request that I would hear all the time when customers would upgrade to a newer device, and understandably so.

The methods I would use would take an hour at least, and 2 hours at worst, depending on how much content there was to transfer. However, were finally at a point where encrypted data from WhatsApp can be transferred from one operating system to another, relieving that anxiety in making sure the same chats and photos carry over.

"If youre upgrading to a Foldable, Smart Switch makes it easy to keep your apps and memories youre used to. And now, that includes your messages.
Samsung explained at the event. For the first time on any Android smartphone, you can now securely transfer your entire WhatsApp experience - including
your ongoing conversations and photos from your old iPhone to your new
Galaxy phone.

With users now safe in the knowledge that they can easily transfer their WhatsApp content over to their new Samsung foldables, other users will now be waiting for this feature to arrive for iOS, with the company confirming that its going to be available very soon - perhaps for the rumored iPhone 13
launch on the horizon. Samsung Unpacked live blog for Galaxy Fold 3 and
Galaxy Watch 4



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