Hey guys! Welcome to the iMyFone channel. In this video I'll review 4 ways that claim
to be able to transfer WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone. I will show you whether
these ways work well or not. In the first part I will go through the 3
free ways mentioned in many online articles. The first one is to use local backup to back
up and restore WhatsApp chats from Android to iPhone. The second one is to use Google
Drive to transfer WhatsApp from Android to iPhone. And the third one is to use the WhatsApp
export chat function to transfer. If you are only interested in one of them,
just navigate to the very chapter by clicking the scrubber bar down there.
In the second part I will introduce a much more efficient way of transferring all your
WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone which is not free, but worth a try.
A 20% discount will be offered to you guys at the end of this part.
Now let's start with the first method.
We all know that WhatsApp can be backed up locally on Android phones. If you would like
to restore the most recent backup, reinstall WhatsApp and it will ask if you would like
to restore the backup after logging in. Some say that it also works when transferring from
Android to iPhone. Let's see if it does.
As you can see, there are some messages, emoji, images, and videos in these chats. I will
make a local backup on Android and then uninstall the WhatsApp app.
Install the app on the iPhone. Log into the same account as is the one on the Android.
We can see that it didn't work. My iPhone says that there is no backup found on iCloud.
And there isn't any backup restored to my iPhone.
Because the local backup is stored on the Android phone, it won't be automatically transferred
to the iPhone even if you use the same WhatsApp account.
Here comes the second method. It is said to will be able to transfer WhatsApp from Android
to iPhone by using Google Drive backup. I will back up my WhatsApp data from Android
to Google Drive and then check the last backup to confirm
that we did back up to Google Drive successfully. Then uninstall WhatsApp on Android and install
it on iPhone. Now log into the same WhatsApp account as
is the one on the Android. We can see that there is no prompt for restoring
the backup from Google Drive, only a message about the backup not found on iCloud. Because
of the differences between iOS and Android operating systems the WhatsApp data cannot
be transferred directly from Android to iPhone through Google Drive.
We will use the Export Chat function of WhatsApp to do the transfer. Chats can only be transferred
one by one, so it will be time-consuming if you want to transfer all your WhatsApp chats
to the iPhone. Choose the chat you would like to transfer
on your Android phone. I will choose this one. Click on the three dots in the upper
right corner and then More > Export Chat. Normally I will click on Include Media even
though it will reduce the number of WhatsApp messages I can export from 40,000 to 10,000.
But if you click on Without Media, the chat will be exported as a text file.
From here choose the app you can easily access on your iPhone. Most people will choose a
mail or cloud drive service. I will choose email because I can receive emails on my iPhone.
We can see that the chat is exported with the chat log and all the media files attached
separately. Fill in the recipient, your email address, and, send.
Now go to the iPhone and check the email sent from the Android. It will take quite long
if we wait for the email, so I will show you one of the ones I exported before.
Keep going through the same process if you have more chats to transfer.
However, we cannot import the chat log and the media files back into the WhatsApp chat
this way. If you would like to access the data in WhatsApp as real chats, the next method
will do.
So the 3 methods that I have shown you are all free ways that are said to be able to
transfer WhatsApp chats from Android to iPhone. And the only method that does the job is the
Export Chat function, albeit with a few drawbacks. Now I'll show you the last but really feasible
method of migrating all the WhatsApp data directly from Android to iPhone.
I will be using Ą°iTransor for WhatsAppĄą, which is specifically designed for WhatsApp
data management including WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business backup, restore, export, and transfer.
You can download the program directly from the link in the description.
Before we start, let's have a look at the messages on the Android phone so that we can
check if all the WhatsApp data have been transferred. We will need a computer and two USB cables
to connect both phones to the computer. After connecting to the program, click on
Transfer and choose WhatsApp Messenger. The program will automatically process the
WhatsApp data step by step. The whole process will last from minutes to
hours depending on the amount of data. Now the program has finished transferring
the WhatsApp data. The iPhone will reboot. Don't worry, all the data on the iPhone will
remain the same. Log in to the same WhatsApp account as the
one on Android. The WhatsApp on Android should have been automatically logged out, but due
to the slow internet here, it didn't log out. This is quite great actually, we can directly
check if the data is the same before and after the transfer.
All the chats are the same as they were on the Android. Try to send a message. Yes, it
also works! The reason why we cannot transfer WhatsApp
from Android to iPhone directly is that the types of data are different in these two operating
systems. iTransor for WhatsApp processes the WhatsApp data from Android to match the type
of data on iPhone so that we can access the Android WhatsApp data on iPhone.
If you are interested in this program, download it directly from the link in the description.
Use this coupon code to get 20% off. You can also copy the coupon code directly from the
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