WhatsApp Gains the Ability To Transfer Chat History Between iOS and Android (techcrunch.com) 4
WhatsApp users will finally be able to move their entire chat history between mobile operating systems -- something that's been one of users' biggest requests to date. From a report: The company today introduced a feature that will soon become available to users of both iOS and Android devices, allowing them to move their WhatsApp voice notes, photos, and conversations securely between devices when they switch between mobile operating systems.
The feature WhatsApp introduced today works with Samsung devices and Samsung's own transfer tool, known as Smart Switch. Today, Smart Switch helps users transfer contacts, photos, music, messages, notes, calendars, and more to Samsung Galaxy devices. Now, it will transfer WhatsApp chat history, too. WhatsApp showed off the new tool at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, and announced Samsung's newest Galaxy foldable devices would get the feature first in the weeks to come. The feature will later roll out to Android more broadly. WhatsApp didn't say when iOS users would gain access.
The feature WhatsApp introduced today works with Samsung devices and Samsung's own transfer tool, known as Smart Switch. Today, Smart Switch helps users transfer contacts, photos, music, messages, notes, calendars, and more to Samsung Galaxy devices. Now, it will transfer WhatsApp chat history, too. WhatsApp showed off the new tool at Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event, and announced Samsung's newest Galaxy foldable devices would get the feature first in the weeks to come. The feature will later roll out to Android more broadly. WhatsApp didn't say when iOS users would gain access.
Lol, no one has posted on this. (Score:1)
"securely transfer"=secure against the user/owner (Score:2)
"We're excited for the first time to make it easy for people to securely transfer their WhatsApp history from one operating system to another" - securely as in they, the users/owners of the actual messages can't grab them and use as they please in any app/convert to other format/etc.
"Everything is a file" (Score:1)
If transferring data is something a developer has to enable on your system,
you're not using a computer.
I'm sorry, but you're not.
At best, you're using a fixed-function appliance that just happens to be implemented on an inaccessible computer.
At worst, it's not even your computer at all.
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