A lot has been already spoken about the WhatsApp’s new policy update. The news wasn’t just about the Facebook owned messaging giant’s new yet-another-policy update, but a whole new dimension to the privacy and information sharing between its group of companies. The controversy around the policy may have settled now, but it did impact the user base of WhatsApp in it’s big regions like India. As many as 5% of the total WhatsApp users have already uninstalled WhatsApp and around 21% of the WhatsApp users in India have started using alternative apps such as Telegram, Signal as their primary mode of communication.
WhatsApp has currently rolled back its policy update and have promised to put the new policy in effect from May 15, 2021. Understanding the outrageous response earlier this year, the paradigm change in preference of the messaging platform is just the beginning and soon you may see more of your friends and contacts ditching WhatsApp later this year.
Techmye understands it is totally your own prerogative if to move to an alternative messaging platform or to stick with WhatsApp. However, we insist you to consider learning how easy it has now become to export/move your WhatsApp chat history to alternative app, especially Telegram.
Switching your messaging platform on the whole has been as tedious as changing to a new home. You don’t really have the complete control over what to take and what to leave behind. There will always be some misses and so. But Telegram has really made this cumbersome process simple without the chance for leaving any of your favorite chat history behind.
Supported Apps:
Telegram supports importing your chats from various instant messaging apps. The most popular ones are listed below:
- Line
- KakaoTalk
Supported Types:
The messages with your favorite friend might not just include text messages and Telegram knows this perfectly. So, you have options to include your images, videos, documents, files, etc.
You have the option to choose if you’d like to import just the text messages or also the media content from your messaging platform.
Supported chats:
Be it your personal one-to-one chats with your friend, or with the whole bunch of your gang, Telegram welcomes them all. You can import any type or all of your chats to Telegram and continue.
Moving a chat from WhatsApp on iOS
- Open the Contact Info or Group Info
- Tap Export Chat
- In the Share menu, choose Telegram
- Select the group or the chat to which you want to import the chat history.
Alternatively, you can also export chats directly from the chat list by simply swiping left on the chat and selecting Export Chat.
Moving a chat from WhatsApp on Android
- Open a WhatsApp chat
- Tap ⋮ > More > Export Chat
- In the Share menu, choose Telegram
- Select the group or the chat to which you want to import the chat history.
Added advantages:
Apart from migrating all your favorite chat history to Telegram, you have two more added advantages you’d like to have even if you don’t plan on ditching WhatsApp.
- Since all your chats are now safely exported to Telegram, you can stop worrying about all the memory storage that your WhatsApp is consuming on your phone. Right from the very first day you started using WhatsApp on your phone to the moment you exported the data from WhatsApp, all your chat history is safely stored on Telegram’s cloud memory. So, you can swipe clean of your local phone memory and still view your older messages whenever required.
- Attention iPhone users! If you are planning to switch to switch between Android and iPhone or have already switched between the platforms, you are going to or would have faced the trouble of leaving behind your chats since WhatsApp backs-up the chats on Google Drive and iCloud for Android and iPhone devices which isn’t helpful to retrieve the back-ups when swapped between the platforms. However, with Telegram being ubiquitous, you can use this feature to carry your chat histories across devices irrespective of the mobile platform.
Important Note: Messages imported to Telegram will be on the current date, however the messages will include their original timestamps.
