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> I use it mainly for transferring photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro M1. This caught me by surprise; I'm not sure if you're aware, but you can open up Image Capture (built-in Mac app) to import photos from your iPhone. Obviously iMazing can do other things as well, but just in case.
Have they improved that? Last I tried with 200GB or so of photos it just froze.
Back in the days you would just lose all your message history anyway with text / AOL / MSN / facebook messenger / others… so I just started accepting it as a fact of life that you can’t keep your messaging history forever.
It's a wild throwback. Even though it is mostly mindless chatter, it is nice to have.
It's definitely a shame that there was no common/interoperable format for locally stored IM history, like there is with emails.
I thought you could backup/restore WhatsApp messages to/from Google drive? I have seen that work between two Android phones - does that feature not exist in the WhatsApp iOS app?
There is no official way to switch from Android to iOS, and the reverse is only possible for some newer Samsung phones.
Back in the days you would just lose all your message history anyway with text / AOL / MSN / facebook messenger / others… so I just started accepting it as a fact of life that you can’t keep your messaging history forever.
As for SMS texts, they could be backed up at least on later Symbian OSs, with the Nokia Ovi desktop app. On Android, backup apps would be able to do it as well.
At least in theory, EU directives for data portability (the "takeout" feature) should grant access to the message history for any abiding platform.
I think all chat platforms should have the decency to offer an export option, regardless of the underlying protocol.
Recollecting my message history from all sources into a common database is definitely high up in my project backlog.
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...
> I use it mainly for transferring photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro M1. This caught me by surprise; I'm not sure if you're aware, but you can open up Image Capture (built-in Mac app) to import photos from your iPhone. Obviously iMazing can do other things as well, but just in case.
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