[niklasrde]

This may sound like an advert, but it's not - I used "Backuptrans Android WhatsApp to iPhone Transfer for Mac" last year when I moved from Android to iPhone, and surprisingly it actually worked!

I could export all my Android (Nougat) messages and media, and restore it onto my iPhone (iOS 11).

It was a bit dodgy though - it asked me to install an old (custom?) APK first to export my messages, and the iPhone restore process looked like an actual iOS system restore..

[stordoff]

I wonder if it's easier to manipulate a backup than to inject data into an app actually on the phone -- make a backup, replace the app's data, then restore the backup. You (presumably) have root on the Mac, so finding any needed encryption keys is probably easier, and adding data to an app on the phone doesn't sound easy unless the app/phone provides an interface for it.

[madeofpalk]

> and the iPhone restore process looked like an actual iOS system restore..

As in it 'hijacked' the UI? I guess its possible that it's using the backup-restore mechanism to get data onto the iPhone.

I wonder if it still works now in iOS 11.