You can transfer WhatsApp chat history via QR code; Here’s how

For the first time, WhatsApp users can keep their entire chat and media history without leaving the app.

New Delhi: WhatsApp has rolled out a safe and faster way to transfer chats from your old phone to your new phone via a QR code based method on the same operating system. For the first time, users can keep their entire chat and media history without leaving the app.

“Secure than using unofficial third-party apps that don’t have clear privacy practices, and more private than cloud services, the transfer process is verified with a QR code, data is only shared between your two devices, and is fully encrypted during transfer, Zuckerberg said, according to a report from IANS.

It’s faster than backing up and restoring your chat history, and now you can also transfer large media files and attachments that were usually too large to keep. “If you want to move your WhatsApp chats to a new phone, you can now do so more privately without your chats ever leaving your devices,” Zuckerberg said.

How to Transfer WhatsApp Chat History Using QR Code

1. Make sure you have both devices physically with you when you are ready to transfer chats and are connected to Wi-Fi and location enabled.
2. On your old phone, go to Settings and select Chats and Chat transfer.
3. Scan the QR code displayed on the screen with your new phone to complete the process.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature on the Android beta that allows users to send high-quality videos. Beta users will see a new button in the character editor that allows them to send high-quality videos, WABetaInfo reports.

Although this feature preserves the video dimensions, a small amount of compression is still applied to the video, making it impossible to send videos in their original quality. The default option is always “Default Quality” for all videos, so users need to select the high quality option every time they want to send a video with better quality.

The new option appears only when the users select a large size video. A tag is added to the message bubble when a video is sent with the high quality option to inform the recipient that the video was sent with this feature. This feature is not available when sharing videos via status updates.