Latest Whatsapp Updates Will Delight Iphone Users - See What's New

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• You tin now easy move your WhatsApp chat history from iOS to Android.
• It's besides easier to find and delete ample files taking up space.
• The WhatsApp updates are rolling retired now.

Transferring your WhatsApp history from an Android telephone to an iPhone has been a elemental process for a while now, but moving from an iPhone to an Android telephone wasn't astir arsenic easy. That's now a point of nan past, arsenic WhatsApp is rolling retired a caller update that not only makes it easy to move from Apple to Android, but besides introduces respective different changes. 

Here's what's new.

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Easily transportation your chat history from iOS to Android

Perhaps nan astir useful caller characteristic improves nan easiness of transferring your chat history cross-platform from iOS to Android. You can't prevention your telephone history, show name, aliases media you've received complete channels, but you tin prevention your relationship info, floor plan photo, individual and group chats, communities chat history, and settings.

Easy transportation from Android to iOS has existed for respective years now, but going nan different measurement required a fewer workarounds, and transfers were often incomplete. The process now takes conscionable a fewer clicks. From your iPhone, unfastened WhatsApp and spell to Chats > Transfer chat history > Transfer to Android.

Use aggregate accounts connected 1 iOS device

Also caller for iOS users is nan expertise to person 2 accounts connected 1 phone. Since WhatsApp is tied to your telephone number, if you needed abstracted accounts, for illustration 1 for activity and 1 for individual use, you needed to usage 2 phones, aliases you had to support logging successful and retired of your different accounts. WhatsApp says it will beryllium easy to show which relationship you're successful because your floor plan image will show astatine nan bottom.

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Also caller is simply a measurement to find and delete ample files truthful you tin prevention your chats. There are nary retention limits for WhatsApp chats, but since nan app saves immoderate chats, photos, videos, sound notes, and different documents, retention abstraction tin go an rumor complete time. If you pat a chat and past take Manage Storage, you'll spot ample media files you tin region to free up space.

WhatsApp besides added 2 AI-powered features -- nan expertise to touch up photos pinch Meta AI earlier sending them (including removing an entity aliases changing nan background), and nan action to person AI draught a consequence based connected your conversation.

These features are rolling retired now, WhatsApp says, and will beryllium disposable to each users soon.