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Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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You might also be interested in a software called iMazing.

It’s a paid piece of software, not free, but it’s worth the price imo.

I use it mainly for transferring photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro M1.

But I know that iMazing can back up WhatsApp messages as well, among other features.

https://imazing.com/

https://imazing.com/guides/export-and-print-whatsapp-chats-f...

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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It's interesting that you can get the decryption key on iOS but the only way to do it on Android is to root your device.

The days of android being free and open are long gone. Now there are several aspects of android that are more locked down than iOS. For example android has an api which allows disabling the screenshot feature. While iOS only allows apps to listen for when a screenshot has happened.

I also don't understand who thought it would be a good idea to disable screenshots...

Android is becoming worse every year.

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Lost all of my WhatsApp messages when moving from android to iPhone. This would have been nice if I still ajay that android phone.

Same here! Moved to iOS around 2 years ago. I also wasn’t sure how legit the paid migration software were so decided not to waste any money on them. Then I recently realized that being a programmer I should be able to cobble something together if I were to ever make a reverse transition. And that is how this article was born :)

We had a license for some paid software for another reason, but it didn't work for me. I won't name them because support was very helpful, even gave me a beta to try, but by then I'd moved on. I think my archive was simply too big and it was causing issues.

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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The days of android being free and open are long gone. Now there are several aspects of android that are more locked down than iOS. For example android has an api which allows disabling the screenshot feature. While iOS only allows apps to listen for when a screenshot has happened.

I also don't understand who thought it would be a good idea to disable screenshots... Android is becoming worse every year.

Banking apps?

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Thank you so much for this. We recently migrated a relative's phone from Android to iPhone and were shocked to notice there is no way to migrate WhatsApp account history from the Android-->iOS. Do you have any suggestions for this?

I used this GitHub repo to do this - https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

It’s buggy, you have to fire up Xcode to run it, and on top of that I had To manually do some corrections in the SQLite database before the script ran without errors lol. But it did work (though it screwed up message orders lightly).

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also don't understand who thought it would be a good idea to disable screenshots... Android is becoming worse every year.

Banking apps?

That doesn't make any sense, how I'm suppose to do my personal budgeting?

And by the way you can screenshot in a browser.

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