At the beginning of September whatsapp made an important and long -awaited news from millions of users all over the world: the possibility of transferring the chat archive from an Apple iPhone phone to a Samsung Android phone.At the same time, he also announced that this function would also be extended to other Android models, of other producers shortly.Less than two months later, now, Google announces that we are there: all Android devices will have this possibility.
This is certainly not a recently new, because the impossibility of transferring their chats from iPhone to Android has limited many Apple users who would have liked to make the jump to Android.But not only that: with the introduction of multidispostitive WhatsApp, currently in beta but available for everyone, it is much more likely that a user asks to use WhatsApp on a mixed Android-IOS configuration.Maybe an android iPhone and tablet.The complete dialogue between the two worlds, therefore, can no longer postpone with the excuse that end-to-end encryption makes things difficult, also because other encrypted messaging apps (one above all: Telegram) do not have these limited limits.Here, then, when and how it will be possible to transfer your WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android.
Chat WhatsApp from iPhone to Android: how to do
The mechanism announced by Google is identical to the one already seen for Samsung phones: it is necessary to connect the two devices with a USB-lighting cable (at least until Apple will surrender to the EU and decide to use the USB-C, such asEveryone) and, when requested during the configuration of the new Android device, scan an QR code from the iPhone to start the transfer procedure of WhatsApp chats.
At this point the data start to scroll along the cable, from the iPhone to the new Android phone, without any transition from the cloud.During the transfer, which could last a bit if there are many data, all WhatsApp messages arriving (on the iPhone) will be temporarily blocked so that they are displayed only on the Android phone at the end of the procedure.
WhatsApp from iPhone to Android: when it arrives
There is a small yellow on the arrival times of this new function on all Android phones: Google says that it is already available on all Pixel phones (and obviously on the Samsung Galaxy) and that it will be available on new smartphones that come out of the factory withAndroid 12, but does not expressly mention those with previous versions of Android.
However, it should be noted that at the moment the Samsung Galaxy do not yet have Android 12 and that not all pixels have already received the update to the latest version of the Google operating system.Yet with these devices the procedure is possible.
The most likely thing, therefore, is that within a few weeks the possibility of transferring chats from iPhone to Android will be extended at least to phones with Android 11.