Apple’s Android-to-iOS transfer app now supports all your WhatsApp data
Switching mobile platforms is stressful, but Apple and WhatsApp just made one part of it much easier. The Cupertino tech giant and one of the world’s most popular encrypted messaging platforms, which also happens to be owned by Meta, partnered up to smooth the path from Android to iOS, at least for your previous WhatsApp conversations and activities on Android. On Tuesday, the pair introduced an addition to Apple’s „Move to iOS“ app in the Google Play store on Android. The app is far from new. In fact, thousands of people use it to switch platforms every year. The core benefits of it are that it creates a peer-to-peer connection between your Android device and your new iPhone and then copies over all your key data (photos, messages, Contacts, Calendar) and puts all of it in the right places on the iPhone. This update recognizes if you have a WhatsApp app and account on your Android phone and then offers to package up the data and transfer it over to your new iPhone. Move to iOS does not decrypt your encrypted WhatsApp messages. Instead, it’s all copied in an encrypted bundle that, while sitting in the right place on your iPhone, does not open on the device without action from you.
