If you are thinking of giving up WhatsApp …for anything reason“One of the sticking points.” it could be difficult to move your conversations from WhatsApp to another service. People have built some intelligent tools to help you achieve that, but Telegram is now launching an official import tool to make the transition incredibly easy.
To begin, install Telegram on the device with which mainly use WhatsApp. Set up or sign in to a Telegram account, then return to WhatsApp. Now you need to export your WhatsApp conversations –a difficult process this requires the opening of each, then tap the three-dot icon, tap Moreand touch Export chat.
When asked where you want to save your chats, make sure you select the Telegram application. When you do, you will be asked to choose a group to import the conversation into Telegram. You can also create a new group, if you prefer. Then sit back and wait while Telegram processes your WhatsApp chats.
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The only oddity about the Telegram’s import function is that it can’t assign WhatsApp chats to the exact date they took place. Instead, conversations and media files will appear in the Telegram as being sent on the date you imported them. Attached to each article, however, will be a noting the time stamp time and date the message or media was originally sent in WhatsApp.
It’s easy strange solution, but this is the compromise you will have to make in e.g.change for such an easy way to migrate your conversations from WhatsApp to Telegram. In fact, the Telegram also notes you can use the same process to move your chats from Line and KakaoTalk as well. I haven’t heard of any of these chat services, but if you use them, you now have an easy way to switch if you want.
As part of the update that adds this export / import functionality, Telegram allows users to delete secret chats, groups they create, and their call history for both sides of the conversation. In fact, it isdeletion“This makes Telegram a little stronger for privacy on WhatsApp, because the latter only gives you a window of about an hour to delete something you’ve sent to a group or chat (and remove it from the recipient devices).