WhatsApp’s New Announcement Exciting news from WhatsApp today! They have announced a new method for users to securely transfer their chat history and other data from one phone to another using an encrypted QR code. The data exchange takes place locally via the user’s Wi-Fi network. WhatsApp says this method is safer than third-party solutions because the data is encrypted and shared only between the two phones on the user’s local network.
WhatsApp already offers a method to transfer online backups to a new phone. However, the QR code is the first method to enable local transfer between phones running the same operating system, as reported by TechCrunch. Additionally, WhatsApp had previously introduced a method for migrating from iOS to Android.
