For a few hours Samsung has presented its new Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3 folding smartphones, the new Galaxy Buds2 headphones and the new Galaxy Watch4s during the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2021 event.In addition to presenting these new devices, however, Samsung has also announced a big news from the software point of view.
An absolute first, which is not yet known if and when in the future it will also be available for other Android smartphones: the possibility of migrating all your WhatsApp chats from an Apple iPhone to the new Samsung phones.This possibility, at the moment, does not exist for any other device: it is not possible to bring your chats from iPhone to Android, nor from Android to iPhone.Doing it would seem trivial, but it is not at all and the Samsung and WhatsApp themselves had to work hard so that this function, at the exclusive moment of Samsung phones, saw the light.Here's how it works and why it is so difficult to transfer the WhatsApp chats from iOS to Android (and vice versa).
WhatsApp: from iOS to Android
The WhatsApp chats are all protected by end-to-end encryption, to significantly increase user privacy: as the company often reiterated, not even WhatsApp can read the chats of its users.
Samsung, however, for years has developed an app called Samsung Switch that allows those who buy a phone to migrate all the data contained in an old device within the new smartphone.To do this, you need to physically connect the two phones.
During the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2021 Samsung showed how this app can now also transfer the WhatsApp chats from an iPhone to a new Galaxy.Migration takes place using the app after connecting the iPhone to the Galaxy via a USB-lighting cable.
Migration chat WhatsApp: when it arrives
This function is already available on the two new folding phones of Samsung, the Galaxy Fold3 and Galaxy Flip3.Samsung said that, within a few weeks, the possibility of spending chats from an Apple to a Samsung phone will be extended to all Galaxy with Android 10 or higher operating system.
The real doubt, however, is when this possibility will be open to all Android users, even those with phones from other producers (who do not have an app as a switch) available).The answer came from WhatsApp, but it is not clear: the company is working on us, but there is still no official date.
One of the reasons that brakes many iPhone users from leaving the iOS platform is precisely the impossibility of carrying the WhatsApp chats.Multi -like migration, therefore, could make the transition from iOS to Android more fluid and vice versa.