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If you are going to change your terminal ☎ or you do it on a regular basis, learn with this brief guide (Transfer WhatsApp Contacts) how to copy your WhatsApp contacts and conversation history ✍. Don’t lose information, change your phone comfortably and without worries, follow our directions! ✌
Nowadays, new cell phones are being released more and more frequently, forcing us to transfer our contacts from applications such as WhatsApp so as not to lose them.
These new devices have the latest technologies and, in addition, technical features such as image resolution, screen size, internal memory, battery life, external memory capacity, … are increasingly better.
Therefore, it is not surprising that you change device with a frequency that was previously unthinkable, this in turn leads to change the SIM card device and in turn move all contacts, photos, videos, …. from one device to another.
Although photos, videos,… are important to us, contacts are much more so. And to avoid losing them when changing mobile, it is best to have them associated with our Google account, ie, save them in the cloud of our Google account so we never lose them even if we change phone.
How to save WhatsApp contacts?
When we want to transfer WhatsApp contacts, the steps we must follow to have secured contacts and never lose any are very simple. In other posts of this blog we explain them very briefly for Android phones and for iOS. Once we have secured the contacts, we must secure the conversations of our WhatsApp account.
To do this, we need to backup our chat history to our Google Drive account which is associated with our Google mail. The steps are:
In case you don’t have a Google Drive account, press Add account when prompted and then hit Save. In the Google Drive Settings we can set:
How to transfer WhatsApp contacts?
Lastly, when we are going to transfer WhatsApp contacts and once we have the new phone, we just need to enter the SIM to be able to receive the line verification code.
Then we will download from the Play Store (on the Android) or from the Apple Store (on the iPhone) the WhatsApp application. The steps now are:
In a few seconds or minutes, depending on how many chats you need to restore, we will have our WhatsApp account as we left it on the previous device ready to be used.
These steps are common for Android and iOS devices.
If in addition to learning how to transfer WhatsApp contacts you want to read specific information to do it from your Android or iPhone phone, click on each of the links that we leave about it.
We hope it has been of great help and you have been able to pass all your contacts and chats without difficulty.
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Home How To How to transfer your old WhatsApp chats to your new phone
You can back your chats up on Android and iOS and restore them on your new device when you change phones.
Here's how you do it.
Shifting to a new phone has been made relatively hassle-free but a few things often get left behind in older devices, particularly text messages if we forget to back them up.
WhatsApp has a solution to back all messages up so you can carry them to your new phone. Given how popular the messaging app is and that it's used by almost all people, it's important to know how to transfer your old chats to your new device.
WhatsApp chats have not only important contacts and information at times, but also media attachments that might be important for you to carry over to your new device. The easiest way to transfer chats is to back them up on Google Cloud or iCloud and then restore them on your new phone.
For Android devices
To transfer old chats to your new phone, you need to open WhatsApp on your old phone and tap on the three dots on the top right corner of the screen.
- Go to Settings and then click on ‘Chats'.
- Click on ‘Chats backup' next.
Here you can pick whether you want to backup your chats manually or automatically (weekly, monthly etc).
Backing chats up manually will have WhatsApp creating a backup on Google Drive that very moment. The next time you want a backup you will have to do this whole thing again. If you choose to do it automatically, WhatsApp will backup your chats weekly or monthly as you have chosen without you having to do anything.
Now when you load WhatsApp on your new phone it will prompt you to recover your old chats and media from Google Drive.
It is advisable that you backup the chats on your old phone before you start using WhatsApp on the new phone. That way you can pick up exactly where you left off.
For iPhones
For iPhones the process of backing up chats on WhatsApp is just as easy.
- Go to your Apple ID and turn on iCloud if you do not have it on.
- Now open WhatsApp and go to Settings.
- Click on ‘Chats' and then click on ‘Chat Backup'.
Here too you can pick between manually backing it up or automatically letting it happen weekly or monthly. You also get an option to include or exclude videos in this case.
Now when you get WhatsApp on your new device, you will be prompted to restore old chats from the iCloud.
Important note - If you are moving from iOS to Android or vice versa, you will not be able to restore your old chats on the new device since iOS won't restore it from Google Drive and Android doesn't have access to the iCloud.
What do you do if you don't want to save chats on the cloud?
If you do not want to save your chats on Google Drive, there is another option to backup chats and restore them.
- Connect your phone to your laptop/PC with a USB cable.
- Go to the WhatsApp database in the internal memory on your device.
- Search for backup files that display saved date.
- Copy these files to your system.
- When you get WhatsApp on your new phone, copy the retrieved file to your new smartphone's databases folder.
If there is no such folder, you can just make one.
- Now you can open the WhatsApp app on your phone, and it will show a notification that states that a message backup has been found.
- Tap on ‘restore'.
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First Published Date: 14 Jul, 13:01 IST
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When buying a new smartphone, WhatsApp users often have problems transferring chats. The program interface cannot be called intuitive, but the developers have provided several ways to save old dialogs.
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. nine0005
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).
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 conversation history is done through 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 must:
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. nine0005
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:
nine0008 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. To do this:
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When buying a new smartphone, WhatsApp users often have problems transferring chats.
The program interface cannot be called intuitive, but the developers have provided several ways to save old dialogs. nine0005
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). nine0005
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 conversation history is done through 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:
nine0008 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. nine0008 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.
