WhatsApp has seen outstanding success since its release in 2009, and it continues to grow and boom.
This year (2022), WhatsApp is THE most used Messenger app, above even WeChat and Facebook Messenger (source: Statistica)
So when you get a new phone, how do you take all these precious conversations with you? You don't want to start afresh and lose all those memories, so let's see how to take your WhatsApp messages with you wherever you go, whatever device you have!
Before we get into how to transfer WhatsApp messages to a new phone, let's see how to backup iPhone WhatsApp messages to your computer. This is essential if you want to save messages as PDF to send to somebody, or if you need to print out a WhatsApp conversation. You can do all of this and more with TouchCopy - let's see how:
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WhatsApp have kindly provided all the tools you need to be able to do this.
First, create a backup of your WhatsApp messages, then restore the backup to your new device. Easy, right? Let's see how:
Great! You now have a backup of your WhatsApp conversations stored in your Google Drive. Next, you'll need to restore this backup on your new phone.
How to restore WhatsApp chats to new phone:
Transferring WhatsApp messages from iPhone to iPhone is very similar to the Android method above, except that you'll back up to iCloud rather than to Google Drive.
(Check out our other article if you need to transfer SMS/MMS and iMessages to your new iPhone too!)
Step 1: First of all, make sure that you're signed into iCloud on your iPhone, and that WhatsApp has permissions to use iCloud:
Step 2: Now you're all set up to backup WhatsApp chats to iCloud:
Step 3: Great! So, your WhatsApp chats are safely backed up in your iCloud. Now is time to transfer WhatsApp messages to your new iPhone. Grab your new iPhone and let's get started:
If you're switching from Android to iPhone, you'll need to use the "Move to iOS" app, as you cannot do this using the WhatsApp app alone. To be able to use Move to iOS, your iPhone must be new (not set up yet) or has been factory reset.
To do this, you'll need:
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Let's see how to transfer WhatsApp from Android to iPhone:
Let's finally take a look at how to transfer WhatsApp from iPhone to Android. Like method 4, this will require the Android device to be factory new, or reset to factory settings.
To do this, you'll need:
Let's see how to transfer WhatsApp from iPhone to Android:
If your new device is a Samsung, you may alternatively wish to use Samsung's own transfer app, Smart Switch, to migrate from iPhone to Samsung.
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If you’re a regular reader of Android Authority, you likely buy a new phone every couple of years or so.
This means transferring over all of your precious user data from the outgoing phone to the incoming one. If you’re a heavy WhatsApp user, this data transfer can seem like a huge undertaking, but actually, it’s not. WhatsApp has made the whole process as easy and quick as possible. Here’s how to transfer WhatsApp to your new phone.
Read more: How to use WhatsApp — a step-by-step beginner’s guide
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To transfer WhatsApp to a new phone, backup your archive first. Then uninstall WhatsApp from the old phone, and install it on the new phone. When setting up WhatsApp on the new phone, choose to restore a backup and follow the on-screen instructions.
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Before you do anything, you first need to backup your WhatsApp chat and media archive on your old phone.
On Android, go to Settings >Chats >Chat backup. Ideally, connect to your Google Drive account, then tap the green BACK UP button. If you’d prefer not to use Google Drive, you can back up to local storage instead. But Google Drive is the easiest of the two options.
iOS is the same, except the user interface is slightly different, and you would be backing up solely to iCloud. After going to Settings >Chats >Chat backup, tap Back up now to make an archive backup to the cloud.
Once the backup has been done, you’re ready to switch to the new phone. Make sure to note your two-factor authentication code first, or switch the feature off on the old device. Otherwise, your archive will be inaccessible on the new phone.
Once you are sure that the backup has been completed successfully, uninstall WhatsApp from the old phone completely.
Install WhatsApp on the new phone, and you’ll be prompted to enter your phone number.
Enter the number of the new phone and follow all verification procedures.
You will then get the option to Restore. If you backed up with Google Drive — and your new phone is already logged into that Google account — it will automatically detect the backup you made on your old phone. Click the green RESTORE button at the bottom to start the process of moving your archive onto the new device.
You will be asked around this time to enter your two-factor authentication code (if you have one). Once entered, the time it takes for the archive to be installed will depend on the file size and your internet connection speed. Just be patient.
Eventually, the messages will appear on-screen, but you will be prompted for your two-factor authentication code again before you can read them and reply to them.
If, for any reason, you don’t want to use Google Drive as your backup, then on Android, a local backup on your phone or SD card is a possibility instead.
Use the preinstalled Google Files app on your phone to access your phone’s internal storage. Then you need to locate the WhatsApp folder. The location can vary depending on your phone, so browse around until you find a WhatsApp folder. When you find the folder, go to Databases, and you should see a file named like this. The name of your file will vary slightly.
Change the file name to msgstore_BACKUP.db.crypt14. Select the most recently dated backup file in the Database folder and change its name to the previous file. In this case, it would be msgstore.db.crypt14.
Now uninstall WhatsApp, reinstall it, and go through the initial setup again. When it comes time to restore a backup, since there’s no Google Drive backup to detect, it will detect the local storage version instead.
Since there is only one possible method for an iPhone, it simplifies matters considerably.
Once you are sure your backup has been completed on the old phone, uninstall WhatsApp, and go through the reinstallation process on the new phone, as we outlined in the Android section above.
The difference comes when it’s time to restore the backup. Instead of Google Drive, your new WhatsApp installation will detect your iCloud backup instead (remember to log into your iCloud account first on your iPhone). Select the iCloud backup and wait for it to restore your messaging history, media, contacts, the whole lot.
After waiting an eternity, Facebook finally gave us an exporting app to get our WhatsApp data moved from an Android phone to an iPhone. But it will only work on new phones or factory reset phones. It also requires the Move to iOS app for your Android phone.
There is a method to move your WhatsApp archive from an iPhone to an Android. Go to Settings—>Chats—>Move Chats to Android.
06/04/2018
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How to transfer WhatsApp messages to a new smartphone nine0020 You can transfer your WhatsApp chat history to a new Android smartphone so you can continue chatting with your friends without losing your old messages. We will show three ways to help you do this.
When you change your smartphone, it becomes necessary to transfer WhatsApp data from one gadget to another. This feature is provided in the messenger itself, and there are several ways to do it. Let's talk about everything in order.
There are several specialized services for the complete transfer of information. We liked iCareFone for Whatsapp transfer from the developer Tenorshare: it allows you to carry out, among other things, a cross-platform transfer (for example, from Android to iPhone). To do this, you need a laptop or computer and, in fact, two smartphones.
1. Connect both gadgets to the computer and click the "Transfer" button.
2. The program will back up the data. Then you will need to click "Continue". nine0003
3. To verify that the WhatsApp account belongs to you, you will need to enter the phone number to which it is linked.
4. If the number is entered correctly, data copying will start. The process usually takes several minutes. After the end, you will see something like this window.
As you can see, nothing complicated.
Before transferring chats to a new smartphone, you must manually back them up on your old phone.
To do this, proceed as follows.
The local backup of chats on an Android smartphone is located in the WhatsApp / Databases folder. It can be in local memory or on an SD card. The backup is named "msgstore.db.crypt".
If you connect your phone to a PC with a USB cable, you can copy this file to your computer and then transfer it to your new phone.
Accessing this file is even easier with a file manager like ES File Explorer. With it, you can immediately send a file to a new phone via email, Bluetooth or cloud storage. nine0003
To download old chats, copy the "msgstore.db.crypt" file to the WhatsApp / Databases folder on the new smartphone, and start WhatsApp. A backup copy of the messages will be downloaded automatically.
And in this article you will find seven interesting facts about WhatsApp.
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When buying a new smartphone, WhatsApp users often experience problems transferring chats.
The program interface cannot be called intuitive, but the developers have provided several ways to save old dialogs. nine0003
All users are advised to set up a backup when starting the messenger for the first time. This option periodically saves all chats along with files on the user's device or in the cloud. The last storage location is preferable, because smartphones and tablets often break down and because of this, access to data can be lost forever.
The chat migration method depends on the operating system and the user's preferred way of working with files. You can send a backup to cloud storage or to external media (SD card). nine0003
Most Android users prefer to transfer copies of conversations via Google Drive. This method is very convenient, because you do not need to copy files manually. The new backup is automatically uploaded to the cloud. In order to transfer chats from an old phone to a new one, you need:
On iOS devices, copying the chat history is done via iCloud. The user uploads a backup copy of data from WhatsApp from the old device to the cloud storage, and then automatically after authorization on the new smartphone, the information is copied to the messenger. In order to use this method, you need:
nine0044 Messenger backups are created with reference to numbers. If the user has several accounts, he can upload their backups to one cloud storage and then restore them one by one.
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There is no official way to transfer WhatsApp backup from Android to iOS. But you can use the AppTrans program. It needs to be installed on the computer. Further procedure:
The official method is only available for owners of Samsung smartphones and tablets. You need to download Samsung SmartSwitch to your computer.
Further procedure:
Smartphones on Windows Phone are quite rare, but even on them you can backup WhatsApp chats and transfer them to Android. But to do this is much more difficult than in the case of other operating systems. In order to copy the history of correspondence, you need:
There you need to activate Engine Unlock and Interop Unlock. nine0044 Direct transfer of information to a PC will not work. WhatsApp does not have this option. But you can send a backup copy of your data to a computer.
