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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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Post by 8K832d7tNmiQ »

TuringNYC wrote: post #5

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 managed to transfer my relative's chat history from android to iphone last year using BackupTrans[0] although you need some steps to do it.

[0]:https://www.backuptrans.com/android-iphone-whatsapp-transfer...

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Post by rosndo »

yunohn wrote: post #31
rosndo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have they improved that? Last I tried with 200GB or so of photos it just froze.

Most people aren’t importing 200GB of photos from their iPhone in one go…

Hardly seems like an unusual situation. I suspect most people never import photos from their iPhone, they might have quite a few if/when they eventually choose to do so.

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Post by hsorbo »

pimlottc wrote: post #43

On a similar topic, is this possible with Signal or iMessage? I have an incomplete archive on my phone due to data loss but my iPad has a continuous record. I would love to get it synced to the phone.

I made a guide for doing this with Signal using Frida if you can jailbreak. https://github.com/hsorbo/signal-backup-ios

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Post by nmlt »

88840-8855 wrote: post #25
baby wrote: post #20

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.

I'm limiting the chat history of all charts to 7 days. You never know what will be used against you in the future.

Wouldn’t it be better to know?

What I mean is: your chat partners could archive your chats or some man in the middle. Better to know what you wrote, then to be blindsided later by somebody else who got hold of these archives.

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Post by scrlk »

yunohn wrote: post #31
rosndo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have they improved that? Last I tried with 200GB or so of photos it just froze.

Most people aren’t importing 200GB of photos from their iPhone in one go…

Given that Apple are selling iPhones with 1TB of storage these days, you'd expect them to test the ability to import huge libraries. (even if the 13 Pro still uses USB 2.0 so the transfer speeds would be abysmal)

Re: Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup

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Post by kiririn »

8K832d7tNmiQ wrote: post #42
TuringNYC wrote: post #5

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 managed to transfer my relative's chat history from android to iphone last year using BackupTrans[0] although you need some steps to do it. [0]: https://www.backuptrans.com/android-iphone-whatsapp-transfer...

Backuptrans is the best solution I’ve found for this, done 3 successful migrations with it.

You’ll need to also use https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-... which makes the process easier than it used to be - no need for an android emulator or second rooted phone

What you’re paying for with Backuptrans is mostly the conversion between database formats, I’m not aware of an open source solution to that. The extracting/decrypting/viewing of android messages and editing iPhone backups can all be done with other tools

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