Hello guys. It is known to all that both Android and iPhone WhatsApp operating systems work
differently. Imagine you switched to iPhone from Android recently and you left a lot of
chat data in WhatsApp on Android. Some chat history, images and documents are so important
that you can’t afford to lose them. Does this mean you really have to leave them behind
and start all over on your new iPhone. Is there a way to transfer WhatsApp from Android
to iPhone? Well, we have been doing some tests, trying to transfer WhatsApp data from Android
to iPhone. Fortunately, after experimenting with some free ways of transferring, we finally
figured out a good method to implement the transfer. In this video, we are gonna show
you our test process. Hope these methods can help you with the transfer. Also if you like
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OK, now it’s time to dive in! We will test the function provided by WhatsApp
first. As you can see that we have some messages here. Now we are going to use export chat
history function to transfer these messages. It is an option to export your chat history
as an email attachment. This process is simple, and within just a few minutes you will be
able to transfer WhatsApp messages easily. You can export chat in WhatsApp setting. Select
one of your chat history to export. Here we are doing a test, we choose without media
so that it won’t increase the file size. You may choose Gmail or other email applications
to receive the chat. Here we choose export to Gmail as it is more secured and protect
your personal information. Just type in our email address and tap send. Now we open Gmail
to have a check, you can see the chat has been sent to my email. Let’s take a look.
Emmm, this looks strange to me. Indeed these the chat history we export, but it is separated
from the WhatsApp. This is far beyond the way we imagine. The transferred data on the
new device will not appear in the same way as it is on old device. We want the data to
be remained on WhatsApp in our new iPhone without opening another application to view
it. So we head to the second test.
WhatsApp also offers a way to back up chat history to Google Drive. It provides many
options for us to decide when to back up the data . In order to succeed in backing up to
Google Drive, you may also need a Google account. After setting up, now we tap back up to Google
Drive, wait a moment until the process is completed. Then we open Google Drive on the
Android phone to make sure the backup has completed. The plan was to restore WhatsApp
data from Google Drive on iPhone. Now we switch to iPhone, open the Google Drive, log with
the same google account, trying to find the backup. As you can see that it looks different
from the Android phone. There is no any relevant file in the back up. We try to type WhatsApp
in the search bar. What surprises us is that it shows no any results. Where does the backup
go? That’s really puzzling. Well, according to WhatsApp FAQ, that’s
because WhatsApp doesn’t really allow WhatsApp transfer between platforms. Again, this method
doesn’t seem to match our expectation. In order to find a solution for transferring
between platforms, we look for help with a third party software called iCareFone for
WhatsApp Transfer. Surprisingly, it turns out that the software not only complete the
transfer, but also quite easy to use. This really goes beyond our expectation. We have
put the link below if you need to download it. Here is how it works.
Launch iCareFone for WhatsApp Transfer and go to WhatsApp. From here we can see two phone
models, it is telling us to connect both our source phone and target phone to the computer.
So we connect the Android phone first. Enable USB debugging if prompted. Once the Android
phone is recognized, connect the target phone, which is our new iPhone to the computer. Tap
trust this computer if prompted. Then proceed to transfer. This will overwrite WhatsApp
data in iPhone. However, we don’t have any data in our new iPhone yet, just click continue.
Here we can select an existing WhatsApp backup or create a new one. Just follow the guidance
to back up the data. Let’s go to the settings on WhatsApp again, this time we are backing
up the data to the local. Then iCareFone can read the backup file to make the transfer.
Once finished, click continue. It is now getting WhatsApp data from the source phone. Here
we need to verify the phone number for the data to be transferred smoothly. This is a
crucial step, please make sure you have disabled two step verification for WhatsApp and connected
to a stable network to receive the verification code. If you have not receive the code sent
by WhatsApp, you can also tap call me and there will be a phone call from WhatsApp to
tell you the code number. Once the verification process is completed, WhatsApp will be signed
out from the Android phone and we will b e asked to sign in WhatsApp on the iPhone. Just
some verification and settings. So we will quickly skip the sign in process. Once done,
click on logged in to proceed. The restore process will begin, iPhone will restart itself
and finish the whole process. The software will notify you that the transfer is successful.
Now let’s check it out. It looks nice. Our contacts are all listed here. Let’s tap
one to have a look. As you can see that all the WhatsApp data, including chats, images,
video and documents have been moved to the new iPhone successfully. That is exactly what
we need. Some articles say that iTunes could also do
the transfer, so we decided to make a test with iTunes. OK now let’s see how it goes.
Firstly we back up my WhatsApp data to the local disk so that the backup file could be
found in the internal storage. Then we back up my iPhone to computer with iTunes. The
reason for this is that we can then find the location of the iTunes backup fo lder, then
copy and paste our WhatsApp data from Android to the iTunes backup folder. Just regard the
computer as a bridge, and we use iTunes to transfer WhatsApp data from its source file.
Here we find the data file of the WhatsApp on the Android phone, copy and paste it to
the iPhone’s backup file. Then rename the database file because this is the format for
iPhone to recognize it, according to the FAQ. Now we copy the back up files from the Android
phone and paste them to iPhone. After that, we can use iTunes to restore backup to our
new iPhone, hoping that it will work. During the process, iPhone will restart itself to
restore the backup. Now let’s check WhatsApp. We log in our account, and here is the result.
It doesn’t look pleasing. There is no any message remained in WhatsApp. There is no
difference between restart all over on a new iPhone.
This isn’t a typical transfer that we need. So we don’t actually recommend you to try
this way. We find reasons for the issue on WhatsApp website. The cause is that WhatsApp
adopts an end to end encryption to protect user privacy, while iOS and Android don’t
share the same protocol, which leads to the test failure.
Well done, after doing several tests, there is eventually a workable solution. At the
moment we can not find free solutions to transfer WhatsApp messages from Android to iPhone.
Some free solutions actually do not work due to the compatibility problem. It looks like
for now the best solution to transfer WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone is through iCareFone
for WhatsApp Transfer. Though it is a paid software, it does fix the problem which other
free methods couldn’t do. So if you happen to be considering about transferring WhatsApp
data, you might want to have a try. Thanks for watching. Don’t forget to give us a
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