WhatsApp at the moment introduced a brand new and faster solution to switch chat out of your outdated cellphone to a brand new cellphone by a QR code-based technique.
The corporate stated that customers migrating to a different cellphone with the identical working system will have the ability to switch WhatsApp information utilizing a neighborhood Wi-Fi connection.
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To switch your chat historical past, be certain each units are turned on and linked to the identical Wi-Fi community.
- Then, open WhatsApp on the outdated system and go to Settings > Chats > Chat switch.
- On completion of this step, you will note a QR code.
- Scan the QR code from the brand new cellphone to finish the switch course of.
The corporate stated this technique is safer than third-party options as the information is encrypted and solely shared between the 2 units over your native community.
Till now, WhatsApp relied on cloud backups to switch information from one system to a different system that runs the identical working system — iOS or Android. That is the primary time the corporate is introducing a neighborhood switch technique for such migration.
WhatsApp already helps iOS to Android and Android to iOS migration. Nonetheless, each strategies are barely extra difficult than scanning a QR code.
The chat app additionally has a multidevice function for a single account. This manner, you may sync messages despatched and acquired with a single cellphone quantity on numerous units. In April, the corporate up to date the function to assist a number of telephones.
