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