Transferring chats between gadgets has grow to be even simpler. (Image: Meta)
WhatsApp, Meta’s on the spot messaging platform, now has a quicker and safer option to switch chats out of your outdated cellphone to a brand new one utilizing a QR code.
WhatsApp, Meta’s on the spot messaging platform, now has a quicker and safer option to switch chats out of your outdated cellphone to a brand new one utilizing a QR code, regionally, with out the necessity for cloud.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced on Instagram that WhatsApp customers will now be capable to switch their chats between gadgets (identical OS solely). He stated that this can permit customers to maneuver their chats to a brand new cellphone “more privately without your chats ever leaving your devices.”
The video shared on the Meta Channel reveals a person simply transferring chats from one Android machine to a different by scanning a QR code. This eliminates the necessity for third-celebration apps and transfers information regionally—relatively than utilizing the cloud. For this to work—each gadgets have to be linked to the identical native Wi-Fi community.
To Transfer Chats Using This Method, Follow These Steps:
- Once you might be linked to the identical Wi-Fi community on each gadgets, open WhatsApp in your outdated cellphone, and head to Settings > Chats > Chat switch.
- Now, a brand new QR code will pop up.
- You have to scan this QR code out of your new machine (which you need your chats on) to complete transferring the chat information.
This for the primary time that WhatsApp has launched a option to switch chats regionally on the identical working system. While transferring chats utilizing the cloud has been the norm, this new, faster methodology is certain to be helpful for customers.
