Virtually each week WhatsApp launches a brand new function that makes the messaging service higher for its customers.
The newest addition is a approach to switch your WhatsApp chat historical past between units on the identical working system. It means you’ll be able to shortly put the whole lot – messages, photographs, movies, attachments and different media – on a second telephone with out leaving the app.
It’s been attainable to do that utilizing third-party apps previously, however WhatsApp says that the brand new, official approach avoids probably questionable privateness practices and is extra non-public than utilizing cloud companies.
That’s as a result of the information is shipped immediately from one telephone to the opposite if you scan a QR code and – as ever – the whole lot is totally encrypted throughout switch.
It’s additionally a sooner choice than backing up your chat historical past on the primary machine after which restoring it on the opposite.
The limitation is that the function works solely on units of the identical kind, which suggests iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android, not cross platform. Possibly that may come sooner or later, however for now, it is advisable to have units with the identical working system.
To switch your chats, you should have each units handy. They have to be related 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.
The brand new function is helpful in the event you’ve already arrange a brand new telephone as a result of, beforehand, in the event you needed to maneuver your WhatsApp chats, you needed to do it as a part of the preliminary course of.
After all, if you wish to use WhatsApp on each telephones and aren’t promoting or buying and selling within the previous telephone, you’ll be able to simply hyperlink the brand new telephone to your previous one due to the truth that WhatsApp now lets you’ve gotten a number of telephones as linked units.