The popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp now adds a new feature that allows users to transfer chat history, including all voice notes, photos, and conversations when switching from iOS to Android.

According to The Verge, this long-rumored feature was announced at Samsung’s press conference today, and will initially cover the transfer from iOS to the company’s new Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 and others “in the next few weeks.” Samsung handphone. Ultimately, this feature will cover all transfers between iOS and Android phones, but it is not clear when it will be available for all devices.

The new feature should help solve one of the most frustrating elements of WhatsApp, which is that transferring chat history between mobile operating systems has never been officially possible.

If you choose to use the cloud backup function of WhatsApp, the chat history of iOS will be stored in iCloud, while the chat history of Android will be stored in Google Drive, which means that your chat history can only be transferred between phones running the same operating system .

This new feature uses a physical lightning to USB-C cable to transfer chat history instead of sending it over the Internet.

Unfortunately, if you have transferred between iOS and Android in the past and have two separate cloud backups, the new transfer feature will not merge them into one chat history. Please also read: Aadhar card update at home!Soon, you will be able to change Aadhar’s mobile number at home

Instead, WhatsApp tells you that if you use it to migrate your chat history and then back it up, it will overwrite any existing backups. WhatsApp stated that the new feature will first allow transfer from iOS to Samsung’s new folding screen, and it will allow transfer to Samsung devices running Android 10 and higher “in the coming weeks.” According to The Verge, the company declined to say when the feature will be available for non-Samsung Android phones or when Android to iOS transfer will be allowed. Please also read: At the request of Poly Network, the hacker returned the stolen US$600 million to US$260 million