Last month, on the day of Samsung’s official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3, WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11.
Today, this feature has finally gone live. So if you have a Samsung handset on Android 10 or 11 and want to transfer your chat history to it from iPhone, now you can do it.
The whole process takes place without your messages ever being sent to WhatsApp, and includes voicemail messages, photos and videos. When you set up WhatsApp on a new Samsung device running Android 10 or 11, you will have the option to securely transfer your chats from iPhone. You will need a USB-C to Lightning cable for this.
Account information, your profile picture, individual chats, group chats, chat history, media, and settings are all transferred. However, the call history and your display name won’t make the jump.
All the details on how the process works can be found here. It requires Samsung Smart Switch and apparently you can only do this when your Samsung is new or after you have reset it to factory settings.
WhatsApp says this feature will be available for more Android devices soon.
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