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Customers who wish to switch WhatsApp chats to a brand new cellphone can now use a neighborhood Wi-Fi connection. Beforehand, this was solely doable through cloud storage companies. To switch the chats, customers must scan a QR code.
The characteristic is situated beneath the Chats heading in WhatsApp’s settings menu and known as Switch Chats. When putting in WhatsApp on a brand new cellphone, customers are given the choice to indicate a QR code that should be scanned with the previous cellphone. The recordsdata are then transferred through a WiFi connection.
Customers should use the identical cellphone quantity and the characteristic solely works with the identical working system; from Android to iOS, or vice versa, doesn’t work with this operate. It was already doable to switch the chats and different media by cloud storage companies, however in response to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg the brand new characteristic is healthier for the person’s privateness as a result of the chats don’t go away the person’s gadget. Zuckerberg says the characteristic is out there beginning now.
