WhatsApp tips: How to transfer chat history from iPhone to Android phone

WhatsApp chat transfer from iPhone to Android phone: WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. It's rapidly evolving feature set ensures that users can share everything from text-based chats to videos and even documents on the platform. Recent additions have ensured that WhatsApp users are also able to share voice chats with other users in individual and group chats. But the app comes with a caveat. It stores all the data locally on device, which makes it difficult for users to transfer their chat history from one device to another especially when switching from one ecosystem to another, that is, from iPhone to Android phone. Thankfully, the Meta-owned messaging app does offer a feature that enables users to transfer their WhatsApp data from iPhone to Android phone.

The list includes account information, profile photo, individual chats, group chats, communities, WhatsApp Channels updates, chat history, media and settings from one platform to another. To transfer WhatsApp chats, users need to ensure that their new Android phones run Android 12 or newer OS model and that they are connected through a cable. 

Once these requirements are met, all user need to do is follow the below mentioned steps: 

How to transfer WhatsApp chats from iPhone to Android phone

Step 1: Download the latest version of WhatsApp on the old iPhone from Apple 's App Store and on the new Android phone from the Google Play Store.

Step 2: Next, set up the new Android smartphone while choosing the option to restore data when prompted.

Step 3: Next, connect the new Android phone with the old iPhone using a cable when the Copy Apps and Data Screen appears.

Step 4: Now tap Trust button when the iPhone warning appears on screen.

Step 5: Continue through the copying screens while keeping the iPhone unlocked. Locking the iPhone is likely to hamper the data transfer process. 

Step 6: Scan the QR code on the screen of the Android smartphone using the iPhone 's camera.

Step 7: Tap the Start button.

Step 8: Disconnect the cable when the data transfer process is finished.

Step 9: Now open WhatsApp on the Android smartphone.

Step 10: Next, verify the WhatsApp account using the same phone number as the one on the old iPhone .

Step 11: Lastly, tap the Start button when prompted to import the WhatsApp chat history.