[TuringNYC]

Thank you so much for this. We recently migrated a relative's phone from Android to iPhone and were shocked to notice there is no way to migrate WhatsApp account history from the Android-->iOS.

Do you have any suggestions for this?

[rgomezcasas]

One year ago I migrated from Android to iOS and used iCareFone for WhatsApp Transfer to do the migration processes. It worked perfectly.

It’s a subscription software, so I signed up for 1 month, did the migration, and then cancelled my account.

[ars]

Wutsapper works: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wondershar...

I used it, it's a very slow, very nerve wracking experience, but it works.

You MUST have fully charged phones before you start!! And they need good battery life, since there's no way to charge them while it works.

See here for some comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/comments/qo1wfc/the_curren...

[yasoob]

I know there is a paid app on Playstore that apparently works. Don’t remember the name. Will have to look it up. I came across it during my research. But there is also this on GitHub: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

Give it a try and see how it goes?

[sirusdas]

This is Android to IOS i was think of IOS to Android. Btw i was wondering why do the paid apps charge so much for this transfer. But thanks to you now i know this stuff is complicated and you have done an amazing work decoding it. What if now the next post about how to import this to Android? Then a program which is open source project for this purpose? But Only if you have time!

[ramraj07]

I used this GitHub repo to do this - https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

It’s buggy, you have to fire up Xcode to run it, and on top of that I had To manually do some corrections in the SQLite database before the script ran without errors lol. But it did work (though it screwed up message orders lightly).

[8K832d7tNmiQ]

I managed to transfer my relative's chat history from android to iphone last year using BackupTrans[0] although you need some steps to do it.

[0]:https://www.backuptrans.com/android-iphone-whatsapp-transfer...

[kiririn]

Backuptrans is the best solution I’ve found for this, done 3 successful migrations with it.

You’ll need to also use https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-... which makes the process easier than it used to be - no need for an android emulator or second rooted phone

What you’re paying for with Backuptrans is mostly the conversion between database formats, I’m not aware of an open source solution to that. The extracting/decrypting/viewing of android messages and editing iPhone backups can all be done with other tools

[redweka]

Unfortunately I don't know of a free way to do this at the moment - it is supposedly being worked on. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/22/22896666/whatsapp-android...

You could try looking through this posts on reddit which details a few options for this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/qkq7f2/the_current_sta...