Google says iMessage is too powerful

Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by nicoburns on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:17PM (#29898944)

I used to think that, until I realised it's impossible (well difficult, and not officially supported) to export your messages from WhatsApp. That's pretty bullshit.

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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by Someone on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:33PM (#29900610)

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...:

“Depending on your settings, you can also periodically back up your WhatsApp chats to Google Drive”

“You can use the export chat feature to export a copy of the chat history from an individual or group chat.”

I haven’t checked the full backup, but exports of individual chats are easily readable (zip with a .txt of all texts in the chat and individual images, IIRC)

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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by nicoburns on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:41PM (#29900708)

The full backup is unfortunately not accessible! I can’t think why they’ve done this, but it’s incredibly user hostile!

The individual exports work fine, but it’s very tedious to go through every conversation individually.

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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by square_usual on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:53PM (#29902487)

If you have an Android phone, you can extract the SQLite DB that contains all your WhatsApp messages. When I switched from Android to iOS I backed up my DB and still use it when I need to read an old conversation.

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