Official migration from Android to iPhone is now available about watoi

[Lekensteyn]

WhatsApp seems to be slowly rolling out the changes. With version 2.22.13.76, I still did not have the option.

What did work was enrolling into the beta and updating the app:

1. Go to https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.whatsapp and log in with your Google account that is associated with your Android device
2. Confirm enrollment. If the next page says that the program is full, try refreshing and submitting the form again. I had to try three times with some seconds delay.
3. Go to the Play Store, and update WhatsApp to the Beta version, I ended up with 2.22.15.13. This is important, previously I was on the Beta program but with the old version installed, I still did not receive the feature.

After installing the Beta version, I succeeded in transferring all my data from a Pixel 2 to an temporary iPhone 7:

1. The Move to iOS app has a "WhatsApp" option at the bottom of the list, check it.
2. Once you continue, it will present the "Move chats to iOS" screen. Press "Start".
3. After continuing, it took about 6 minutes to get through the "Getting chats ready..." screen while the progress bar was stuck on "Preparing... 1%".
4. Once completed, it showed "Almost Done!" with a "Next" button.
5. The Next button takes you back to the Move to iOS app where the size is now visible under the "WhatsApp" option. Press "Continue".
6. It started with "Time remaining: 6 minutes", but actually took 13 minutes at the end. Looking at adb logcat, it seems to transfer large files first and small files last.
7. Once finalized, it shows "Transfer Complete" and a "Done" button. At this point, you can ignore the Android phone and continue on the iPhone. WhatsApp on Android seems logged out as it shows the "Welcome to WhatsApp" button instead of the usual chats.
8. On the iPhone, continue the set up process, including logging in to your Apple/iCloud account.
9. Install WhatsApp through the App Store. Once opened, confirm the phone number, and confirm importing existing chats.

After completing importing these to a temporary iPhone 7, I continued migrating it to my final iPhone by making a backup to iCloud:

1. Open WhatsApp, go to Settings -> Chats -> Chat Backup.
2. To preserve everything, I checked "Include Videos".
3. To make sure that iCloud cannot read the backup contents, enable End-to-end Encrypted Backup.
4. Hit "Back Up Now" to start uploading to iCloud.
5. Just to make sure that I don't miss messages, I hit "Back Up Now" once again after the initial backup. This will start uploading again, but will skip over data that was already backed up before.
6. After that final backup, I put the temporary iPhone in airplane mode to make sure I don't receive new messages after the backup.

Then on my actual phone I installed WhatsApp and imported from iCloud:

1. Install WhatsApp, confirm my phone number.
2. Confirm importing chats from iCloud. Enter the End-to-end password.
3. Downloading from iCloud starts.
4. Once completed, you can uninstall WhatsApp on the temporary phone, sign out from iCloud, and erase the temporary iPhone.

[majurius]

Doesn't work with company managed iPhones

[myishay]

I just tried to transfer the data from my old Samsung Galaxy A51 to my new iPhone 13 using this method, but the "Whatsapp" option was not available...

[hmassareli]

Does it work with whats app business?