WhatsApp adds the ability to transfer the history of your conversations from Android to iPhone, after previously allowing users to only transfer chats in another way (from iPhone to Android). The functionality was announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook post. Early signs of the feature, which is currently in beta, were noticed earlier by WABetaInfo.
The update helps with a long-standing problem with WhatsApp, which is that historically it has been difficult to transfer chats between the two mobile operating systems. It’s easy to transfer chats from one iOS device to another or from one Android device to another, but usually not between the two different operating systems.
The transfer process only works on new or factory reset iPhones and uses the existing Apple Move to iOS app for Android (which already helps move contacts, calendar entries, text messages, and more). During iPhone setup, select the “Move data from Android” option, and then follow the steps in the Android app. Once the iPhone is fully set up, open WhatsApp and log in with the same phone number. Your existing Android chat history should appear.
To start the transfer, you will need to use Android 5 or later on the device with Android and iOS 15.5 on your iPhone. Unfortunately, if you already have an existing iOS chat history, then the imported Android history will overwrite it.
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