Re:WhatsApp – About multi-device beta
by scrollaway on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:50AM
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My understanding is that WhatsApp uses a different database between android and iOS and I guess they never figured out a good UX for converting between them. It’s shockingly ridiculous for something owned by Facebook.
Re:WhatsApp – About multi-device beta
by Denvercoder9 on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:25AM
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> There has been a "Chat export" option for years. I even exported a chat of mine and ran it through some sentiment analysis for fun.
You've to do it manually for every chat, and it lacks all media. From the context of preserving your chat history, it's just marginally better than having nothing.
> There has been a "Chat export" option for years.
Except where they disable it, like in Germany (but haven't followed up on that story if it was resolved)
edit: seems to no longer be the case, time to run some backups!
There has been a "Chat export" option for years. I even exported a chat of mine and ran it through some sentiment analysis for fun.
> shared / imported history between iOS and Android
Yeah this is perplexing. Android to android it works fine. The moment you throw Ios into the mix it gets complicated.