One daunting challenge you may encounter while you decide to switch from iPhone to Android is how to transfer WhatsApp messages from iPhone to Android. You probably think you're going to lose your conversations forever. No, that's not precise. The following content will direct you on a feeble way to transfer WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android.
WhatsApp is one of the widely used Instant Messaging apps on the planet. When it comes to discussing your business matters on the air, or staying in touch with your loved ones while keeping your privacy secured, WhatsApp nails that right. And that's one reason why people prefer WhatsApp messenger to other instant messaging apps, and why you wouldn't like to lose your chat history forever.
Though WhatsApp doesn't provide a feature to help you migrate your chats easily from iPhone to Android and vice versa. You could export them to your mail for later use. Just follow our simple guide on how to do it.
How to transfer WhatsApp from iPhone to Android using Gmail
Transferring WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android isn't that straightforward as transporting files like photos, videos, and others, because of a reason we will explain in the latter part of this article. But for now, there's a workaround that lets you transfer WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android using your email. Though not perfect as desired, it's quite beneficial if you intend to keep your conversations for record/revision purposes. Moreover, transferring WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android won't transfer all your chats at once. It only exports the chats for one contact at a time. So if you have to transfer 10 chats, you would do so ten different times, respectively.
- First, launch WhatsApp on your iPhone and confirm your security if you have one.
- As soon as you launch the app, find a chat you want to export to your Android phone, then swipe left on the chat to show the chat menu.
- Right there, click on the "More" button to bring other options, then tap "Export Chat"
- In the next screen, select "Attach media" if you want to include your media files, or select "Without media" if all you need is just the texts.
- After that, you can now choose any export method you want. Since you're transferring to Android, choose the Mail method, then send the chats to the email linked to your Android phone like you want to send an email.
- Wait for the email to finish uploading, then import the chat to your Android after it is delivered. You can now repeat the process for all the chats you want to transfer.
- As soon as the email arrives your Android, open it and download all the attachments.
Meanwhile, it's worth mentioning that the WhatsApp chats transferred from iPhone to Android in this manner are created in .txt format in your phone. Meaning you can't use the transferred chats the same way as the old phone. However, you can store them in your email as long as you want.
The file in the .txt format is the main chat that you can open with any text editor app or the HTML viewer on your Android phone. All your voice chats would be in the .opus format, to which you can listen to over the media player on your phone. Other files like photos, videos, documents, etc., would also be present in the email.
Why it is hard to transfer WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android
It is not straightforward to transfer WhatsApp chats between different operating systems. It's arduous to transfer WhatsApp chats from iOS to Android because the two platforms manage their backups in diverse cloud storages. WhatsApp allows chats backup from iPhone to iCloud only, while you can only backup to Google Drive on Android.
Hopefully, as time goes on, WhatsApp may come up with a feature that will make migrating your chats history from iPhone to Android, and vice versa. But for now, transferring your WhatsApp chats to your mail is quite beneficial if you intended to store them for later use.
