WhatsApp: Now it’s sooner to maneuver chats between telephones

Virtually each week WhatsApp launches a brand new characteristic that makes the messaging service higher for its customers.

The newest addition is a method to switch your WhatsApp chat historical past between gadgets on the identical working system. It means you may rapidly put the whole lot – messages, pictures, movies, attachments and different media – on a second telephone with out leaving the app.

It’s been potential to do that utilizing third-party apps previously, however WhatsApp says that the brand new, official method avoids probably questionable privateness practices and is extra personal than utilizing cloud companies.

That’s as a result of the info is distributed instantly from one telephone to the opposite whenever you scan a QR code and – as ever – the whole lot is absolutely encrypted throughout switch.

It’s additionally a sooner possibility than backing up your chat historical past on the primary system after which restoring it on the opposite.

The limitation is that the characteristic works solely on gadgets of the identical kind, which suggests iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android, not cross platform. Perhaps that can come sooner or later, however for now, that you must have gadgets with the identical working system.

To switch your chats, you need to have each gadgets handy. They have to be linked to Wi-Fi and have location enabled.

On the previous telephone, go to Settings > Chats > Chat switch and – on the brand new telephone – scan the QR code proven on the display to finish the method.

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