Nearly each week WhatsApp launches a brand new function 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 possibly can rapidly put all the pieces – messages, pictures, movies, attachments and different media – on a second telephone with out leaving the app.
It’s been potential to do that utilizing third-party apps up to now, however WhatsApp says that the brand new, official method avoids doubtlessly questionable privateness practices and is extra personal than utilizing cloud providers.
That’s as a result of the information is distributed instantly from one telephone to the opposite whenever you scan a QR code and – as ever – all the pieces is totally encrypted throughout switch.
It’s additionally a sooner possibility than backing up your chat historical past on the primary gadget after which restoring it on the opposite.
The limitation is that the function works solely on gadgets of the identical sort, which suggests iPhone to iPhone and Android to Android, not cross platform. Perhaps that can come sooner or later, however for now, you must have gadgets with the identical working system.
To switch your chats, you could have each gadgets handy. 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On the outdated telephone, go to Settings 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 proven on the display to finish the method.
The brand new function is helpful should you’ve already arrange a brand new telephone as a result of, beforehand, should you wished to maneuver your WhatsApp chats, you needed to do it as a part of the preliminary course of.
In fact, if you wish to use WhatsApp on each telephones and aren’t promoting or buying and selling within the outdated telephone, you possibly can simply hyperlink the brand new telephone to your outdated one due to the truth that WhatsApp now lets you will have a number of telephones as linked gadgets.