If you change your phone, you may want to keep the conversations you have in your messaging applications. This means that you will want to keep the chats you have on WhatsApp. Let’s see how you can get it.
The truth is that keeping the WhatsApp Conversations is quite simple since the way to achieve it is to play with the backup copies of the respective clouds of each system.
The complication comes when the phones are of different operating systems, which you can solve with third-party applications. Natively, there is no way to achieve it. However, work is being done so that in the future it will be. They can pass chats from one system to another from WhatsApp itself.
How are the backups made?
The first thing you have to know is how the backups are made. If not, you will hardly be able to transfer the chats from one phone to another. If you have an Android device, the copies are made as follows:
- Open WhatsApp .
- Click on the menu button (three vertical dots at the top right of the screen) and enter Settings.
- Go to Chats.
- At that moment is when you must click on Backup to be recorded.
This would be the manual way to do the backups. These copies are stored in Google Drive in Android and iCloud in the case of iPhone terminals. Anyway, you have two very interesting options in WhatsApp, such as:
- Automatic saving: this means that you can choose the option Save to Google Drive or Save to iCloud so that the backup is made automatically daily, weekly, monthly, or never.
- Save only with WiFi or with data as well: this option may be interesting for those users who do not have much data in their rate. If they choose only with WiFi, the copy will only be made when they are connected in that way.
Pass conversations between Android and iOS terminals
When you buy a new terminal but maintain the same operating system, it will be quite easy to maintain all the chats. All you have to do is restore your backup copy.
This means that the moment you install WhatsApp on the new smartphone, you will follow some very simple steps, and the copy will be recovered automatically:
- Open the newly installed application.
- As you open, you must verify the phone number to send you an SMS with a verification number that you must enter.
- After this, the Restore option will automatically be indicated so that you can recover the chats. You will see that it tells you when that copy was made. If you have made it moments before changing mobile, it will only take a few minutes.
- Once restored, they will ask you to put your nickname, and then (especially if you have many photos) it will recover everything, but you will be able to see the chats you had.
It’s that simple to recover chats on both Android terminals and iPhones since the recovery system is the same in both. The only thing that changes is where each of the copies is saved in each of the two operating systems.
Transfer chats between iPhone and Android
The real problem comes when we have to transfer conversations from Android to an iPhone or vice versa. By using a different system to back up the chats and not being compatible, they cannot be transferred from one to the other yet.
Unless they fix it soon, you can only use third-party applications that allow such a need, such as Dr.Fone, which we think works best, although there are others such as Tenorshare WhatsApp Transfer or MobileTrans.
If you use Dr.Fone, there is an option to migrate the conversations from one mobile to another. Something very interesting, because it does not take long to perform this task and because all the chats are passed directly without the need to make any copy of security, which would cause everything to be much slower.
Using Dr.Fone
The steps to follow are as follows, although we must tell you that you will have to get the paid version of the program to perform this task.
- We must download and install Dr.Fone on our computer, both Windows and macOS.
- Now click on Restore Social App.
- Then you must configure the phones that you want to connect. If you use an Android terminal, you must have USB Debugging activated, which is in the Developer section of the terminal Settings. Dr.fone helps you know how to do it for each brand. In the case of iPhone, it is also indicated by the program itself.
- After connecting both terminals, choose WhatsApp on the side panel and then select Transfer WhatsApp messages.
- In the window where you see both devices, you must be sure that each one is in the correct position. That is, the old one in Source and the new one in Destination. If you see that it is not correct, click on Flip.
Now you know how you can transfer your conversations from one terminal to another. You will not have the slightest problem preserving all the WhatsApp chats and their files. This has become imperative for many of us.
