Migrate WhatsApp from Android to another Android device. In Android, the migration options are similar, in Google's operating system
If in these past parties they gave you (or you gave yourself) a new smartphone, most likely the first thing you did (or tried) was to transfer all the information from your old device to the newest one.
This is relatively easy to do when we change equipment on the same platform (from iOS to iOS or from Android to Android) but things change when we change from one operating system to another and it could be a bit more complicated with some essential applications such as WhatsApp. .
Migrate WhatsApp from iOS to another iOS device
If what we want is to migrate from iPhone to iPhone, we must perform the following steps:
Old iPhone:
Enter WhatsApp and select settings
Within settings perform the backup. WhatsApp makes a backup every day at dawn, but we can do it manually at any time we want.
Remove SimCard from iPhone
New iPhone:
Once the initial configuration of the equipment is done, we must install WhatsApp from the Appstore
Insert the SimCard (It must be the same one we used in the previous equipment, or at least the same number)
Open WhatsApp and enter our phone number and the confirmation code that will send us via SMS
Select the option to restore messages. Note: It is the only screen where we can restore, if we do not restore our messages at that time, we will have to carry out the process from scratch, so it is recommended that we do it at this point to avoid losing messages.
Once the restoration of the messages is finished, they will be available on our computer, the images and videos (if we had selected that they be backed up) will be downloaded little by little in the background.
Migrate WhatsApp from Android to another Android device
In Android, the migration options are similar, in Google's operating system, the backup is done in Google Drive every day at dawn (although we can change the frequency of backups)
Old Android:
Enter WhatsApp and select settings
Within settings perform the backup. WhatsApp makes a backup every day at dawn, but we can do it manually at any time we want.
Remove SimCard from Android
New Android:
Once the initial configuration of the equipment is done, we must install WhatsApp from Google Play. Note: We must use the same email address to configure the new phone.
Insert the SimCard (It must be the same one we used in the previous equipment, or at least the same number)
Open WhatsApp and enter our phone number and the confirmation code that will send us via SMS
Select the option to restore messages. Note: It is the only screen where we can restore, if we do not restore our messages at that time, we will have to carry out the process from scratch, so it is recommended that we do it at this point to avoid losing messages.
Once the restoration of the messages is finished, they will be available on our computer, the images and videos (if we had selected that they are backed up) will be downloaded little by little in the background.
Migrate WhatsApp from Android to iOS or vice versa
In this scenario, it is a bit complicated to carry out the data transfer, since both iOS and Android use different programming options, as well as encryption, which makes it difficult (but not impossible) to carry out these movements.
It should be noted that there is no official option by WhatsApp to carry out this movement, but there are various apps or software that allow us to migrate from one platform to another, with the disadvantage that this type of software is not free and its cost varies. from $ 200 to $ 1000 Mexican pesos.
Among the software that we can find, this Dr Fone from Wondershare or BackupTrans that make the migration process simple and fast, although the cost ranges from $ 20 to $ 100 US dollars.
If you are going to migrate from iPhone to Android, there are also some apps like Wazzap Migrator that allow you to do it in a few steps, although the process is a bit complicated and time-consuming.
These are some of the easiest options to migrate the content of our WhatsApp account from one computer to another.
