WhatsApp for iOS May Soon Get Ability to Move Chats From Android Devices

WhatsApp for iOS might quickly carry the flexibility to let customers transfer their chat historical past from an Android system to an iPhone. At current, WhatsApp customers on an iPhone are solely in a position to migrate their chats from an present iPhone handset and should not in a position to transfer their chat historical past from an Android system. Last yr, the moment messaging app enabled its customers on some Samsung and Google Pixel telephones to switch their chats from an iPhone.

According to a report by WhatsApp beta tracker WABetaInfo, WhatsApp for iOS beta model 22.2.74 has carried references in regards to the skill to import chat historical past from an Android system. A screenshot has been shared by the supply that exhibits WhatsApp asking customers for his or her permission to import chat historical past.

WhatsApp for iOS seems to be testing the importing chat historical past characteristic for transferring chats from an Android system 
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The new expertise has not but been made accessible to beta testers. It might, due to this fact, take a while to turn into a actuality for finish customers.

In September final yr, WhatsApp launched beta model 2.21.20.11 for Android customers that had instructed the choice to maneuver chat historical past to iOS from an Android system. An identical indication initially appeared on WhatsApp for Android beta model 2.21.19.1 earlier that month.

Users might must bodily join their Android telephones with a brand new iOS system utilizing a USB Type-C-to-Lightning cable to maneuver chat historical past. The migration course of may additionally require customers to have put in Apple’s Move to iOS app on their Android units, WABetaInfo had instructed.

In August final yr, WhatsApp introduced the chat transfer feature from iOS to pick Samsung units. It was expanded to Google Pixel devices in late October. The characteristic emigrate chats from iOS can also be accessible to units based mostly on Android 12 out-of-the-box.