Virtually each week, WhatsApp launches a brand new characteristic that makes the messaging service higher for its customers.
The newest addition is a strategy to switch your WhatsApp chat historical past between gadgets on the identical working system. It means you’ll be able to shortly get every little thing – messages, pictures, movies, attachments and different media – onto a second telephone with out leaving the app.
Prior to now, it was potential to do that with third-party apps, however WhatsApp says the brand new, official means avoids probably questionable privateness practices and is extra personal than utilizing cloud providers.
That is as a result of the information is distributed instantly from one telephone to the opposite if you scan a QR code and – as at all times – every little thing is absolutely encrypted throughout switch.
It is also a sooner possibility than backing up your chat historical past on the primary system after which restoring it to the opposite.
The limitation is that the characteristic solely works on gadgets of the identical kind, i.e. iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android, not cross-platform. Possibly that can come sooner or later, however for now it’s best to have gadgets with the identical working system.
To switch your chats, you could have each gadgets at hand. They should be linked to Wi-Fi and have location enabled.
On the outdated telephone, go to Settings > Chats > Chat switch and – on the brand new telephone – scan the QR code displayed on the display to finish the method.
The brand new characteristic is beneficial for those who’ve already arrange a brand new telephone, as a result of beforehand for those who needed to maneuver your WhatsApp chats you had to take action as a part of the preliminary course of.
After all, if you wish to use WhatsApp on each telephones and do not promote or commerce within the outdated telephone, you’ll be able to simply hyperlink the brand new telephone to your outdated one because of the truth that WhatsApp now lets you will have a number of telephones as paired gadgets.
