WhatsApp Now Lets You Transfer Data From Android to iPhone: How to Do the Migration
There is finally a sigh of relief for those Android users dreading the jump to an iPhone. WhatsApp has released a beta bombshell: this is finally the seamless chat migration between Android and iOS. No longer will users have to forgo years of cherished message history, photos, and painstakingly curated group chats! The update allows migration of the entire WhatsApp universe from an Android tablet to a fresh iPhone, including: account info, profile pic, one-on-one and group chats, media, and settings-all the way, really. Remember, last year, when iPhone users were finally able to exit the Android echo chamber? That migration was, initially, exclusively Samsung and Google. Now every green bubble user can walk away.
What a relief! After what seemed to be never-ending wait, WhatsApp has finally enabled Android users to get rid of those green bubbles without sacrificing any memory. Here’s the moment you have been waiting for: the option to seamlessly move all your chats, pictures, and everything from Android to iPhone is finally here. The vendor will, of course, require Apple’s “Move to iOS” app to be downloaded from the App Store on his Android device. This will serve as his digitally serving moving truck!
Picture a seamless experience flying from one Android to an iPhone while the whole WhatsApp life with chats, precious photos, funny videos, and voice notes just shadows you! No more agonizing data loss! Crazy changes by Mark Zuckerberg give WhatsApp the ability to securely bounce between devices while transferring your entire chat history with end-to-end encryption intact. Consider this a direct response to your collective pleas!
But WhatsApp is going slow: Beta enabling the transition of chat history from Android into iPhones will take some time to be chambered out. According to Gadgets 360, it will take about a week to get fully rolled out. Stay tuned!
So you’ve been thinking of leaving Android for an iPhone? Great! But just before you dive headfirst into the Apple ecosystem, let’s talk about carrying your WhatsApp chats along for the ride. It takes a bit of magic whose Android is Android 5 (Lollipop) or newer. The new iPhone would have to be armed with iOS 15.5 or up. Like a key for one door and the other for a different one.
Besides, be sure your Android device is running any version equal to or higher than WhatsApp 2.22.7.74-it is the secret handshake. The final thing is that the “Move to iOS” got to be just your best friend. Download it onto your Android device! Speaking of which, another extremely important factor: same phone number! You need to keep the same phone number on your iPhone for the actual WhatsApp data transfer to occur. Now you’re ready to glide smoothly into the frictionless switch!
WhatsApp users on Android are required to use the Move to iOS app to transfer data to an iPhone Photo Credit: Apple
Say goodbye to any cords you may have! Switching from Android to an iPhone is an easy break to do over-the-air: keep in mind that Wi-Fi must be the same for both phones, or you can always share your iPhone hotspot. Basically, pry those USB cords in and keep up the juice on both ends to watch your data carry over with some rather effortless charms to its new abode.
Before WhatsApp can be transferred smoothly onto your iPhone, the latter will have to be brand-new or factory-reset. For such transfers, the “Move to iOS” app acts as a bridge and this will only cooperate with an iPhone in a pristine, factory state.
How to move WhatsApp data from an Android phone to iPhone
Want to switch to iPhone by shedding Android? Here are some very quick measures to switch your entire WhatsApp history (if you have everything in place, of course).
- Open the Move to iOS app on your Android phone and follow the on-screen prompts.
- Your iPhone will display a code. Enter that code on your Android phone when prompted.
- TapContinueand follow the on-screen prompts.
- Now, selectWhatsAppon theTransfer Datascreen.
- TapNextto return to the Move to iOS app.
- Leading up to the migration, tapContinue. This begins the modernday version of moving! Depending on how much data you are transferring will kill the time. Now, sit back with maybe some coffee and watch the Move to iOS app working wonders. The app will notify you when the transfer is complete.
With the whole prep work done, head to the App Store on your iPhone to download WhatsApp. Now comes the main event: signing in with the number affiliated with your old device. That big “Start” button is practically shouting for attention, so go ahead and tap it. Let the magic begin as your chat history transfers to the new iPhone!
Heads up! Moving your WhatsApp data to a new phone doesn’t merge with existing Google Drive backups-the way you would with iCloud. Once you are done with the transfer, you must create a new iCloud backup. Very important: This new backup inevitably means an overwrite of the previous iCloud WhatsApp backups.
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There lies a data on the Android platform, which can be considered as a digital shadow of sorts-it stays around even when you “close” the app. To be exact, one has to either kill the app or comb through the very depths of his phone and clean it up completely. Otherwise, the data remains dormant, waiting for a resurrection.
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