Make It Easier For Users, WhatsApp Develops Transfer Chat History From IOS To Android

WhatsApp application (Android Authority)

JAKARTA - Despite the many controversies recently faced by its parent company, Facebook, there are still many users who rely on the WhatsApp service to exchange news.

The excitement of users who perceive privacy updates as a threat to personal data does not seem to have had a big effect. Both in Indonesia and in other countries.

As a result, the company continues to develop and update features. Previously, WhatsApp launched an update that made it easier for users to access the platform through various devices.

Now, thanks to the findings of WABetaInfo, it is known that the company is developing a feature that functions to move conversation history from iOS to Android. A good news for most of the chat application users, right?

WhatsApp says that apps that claim to move your chat history between phones violate their Terms of Service. Https://t.co/MK4tJmBGrc pic.twitter.com/Vz423jIVuv

- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) July 15, 2019

Migrate Chat Data from iOS to Android

In terms of features and services, this is not new. There are already various choices of third-party platforms that provide similar services. Both paid and free services.

However, because this is an official feature developed by the company, you don't need to worry about chat data being stored by parties other than WhatsApp. At least, that's the plus of this service.

In addition, what we can expect from this feature is of course the ease of moving data from iOS to Android. In fact, as we can see from the image below, data migration can also be done the other way around - namely from Android to iOS.

It is certain that the presence of this feature will provide new facilities for loyal WhatsApp users. As a result, now you no longer need to bother moving data when changing devices, either from Android to iOS or vice versa.

What About User Data Privacy?

Perhaps, there are some readers who ask this. And naturally, considering that this feature update also changes the WhatsApp storage system as a whole.

One of the things that makes WhatsApp tempting is end-to-end or E2EE security encryption and privacy protection. That's the important value advertised by the company when it was still in the development phase - the time before Facebook bought the company.

Thanks to this encryption, every conversation data is stored on the internal storage of the device. Not in the cloud or cloud computing. As a result, security is better maintained because users have complete control over it.

This also causes many malware programs to try hard to access WhatsApp data stored on the device. You see, if the malware manages to steal user data, it is the same as the hackers who have mastered the victim's device.

On the other hand, this fairly safe and profitable system also has its drawbacks. So users cannot move data directly from one platform to another.

So, when the update was released, of course there were several changes to the security protocol that the company made. This step was taken in order to adjust the new features that promise convenience. As for security, maybe we should wait until WhatsApp opens its voice.