WhatsApp New Features: Mark Zuckerberg Showcases A New Feature That Eases Chat Transfer Between Two Devices; Deets Inside

JE Technology Desk: Arguably, all of us, at least once in our WhatsApp journey, have transferred chats or created a backup to migrate data of the app on another device. Soon this process is going to get amazingly easy as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has announced a secure method to move WhatsApp chat history between two devices that run on the same operating system.

The new feature simply works via a quick response (QR) code and functions independently of a backup created on a cloud service. Data is exchanged between two gadgets running on the same OS (Android-to-Android and iOS-to-iOS) and is encrypted, The Verge, citing the Meta-owned app, reported.

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"More secure than using unofficial third-party apps which lack clear privacy practices, and more private than cloud services, the transfer process is authenticated with a QR code, data is only shared between your two devices, and is fully encrypted during transfer," said Zuckerberg.

The feature allows faster chat and large-sized media transfer as it trims the process of backing up WhatsApp chats and downloading them on another or the same device. In the future, it would also help vacate space from cloud services such as Google Drive and iCloud. Both devices (running on the same OS) must be connected to Wi-Fi and have their location turned on to transfer chat history, as per the instant messaging app.

Users can head to 'Settings', then 'Chats' and 'Chat Transfer', and scan the QR code that is displayed on the screen of the old device to complete this transfer. "If you want to move your WhatsApp chats to a new phone, you can now do it more privately without your chats ever leaving your devices," said Zuckerberg.

While the company has not given us a release timeline, according to reports, the feature is already live for some beta testers. You can read more about this in these two reports.

With inputs from IANS