WhatsApp Lets Users Transfer Chats Locally Over Wi-Fi Connection

Customers who wish to switch WhatsApp chats to a brand new telephone can now use an area Wi-Fi connection to take action. Beforehand, this was solely doable by way of cloud storage companies. To switch the chats, customers have to scan a QR code.

The characteristic is positioned underneath the Chats heading in WhatsApp’s settings menu and is known as Switch Chats. When putting in WhatsApp on a brand new telephone, customers are given the choice to indicate a QR code that should be scanned with the previous telephone. After that, the information are transferred by way of a WiFi connection.

Customers should use the identical telephone quantity and the characteristic solely works with the identical working system; from Android to iOS, or vice versa, doesn’t work with this perform. It was already doable to switch the chats and different media by way of cloud storage companies, however in accordance with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg the brand new characteristic is best for the consumer’s privateness as a result of the chats don’t depart the consumer’s gadget. Zuckerberg says the characteristic is out there beginning now.