Prior to his acquisition by Facebook, WhatsApp was considered one of the safest traditional courier services. It was thanks to his end-to-end encryption that few of his rivals offered at the time. During a bargain for privacy and safety, E2EE also has an unfortunate disadvantage that WhatsApp may not have anticipated these days. Now the cat platform belonging to Facebook will solve this flaw by allowing the iPhone users to the history of their cat completely android.
The announcement took place during the Samsung unwrapped event earlier today. Although it may seem like a strange timing, the telephone manufacturer was not so subtly using it as a strategy to reduce the barrier at the entrance to an iPhone to a new Galaxy phone. Although many iPhone users swear by iMessage, there is so much or maybe even more in WhatsApp.
It will not be so happy to change mobile platforms because they can not take the story of WhatsApp with them. While many messaging platforms are easily allowed to back up the discussions and import them to another device, the main characteristic of WhatsApp is ironically made almost impossible. E2EE needed the data not only encrypted but also stored locally on the device.
Fortunately, Whatsapp made the impossible possible and transfer cats between iPhones and Android phones is finally possible. More than the text part of the discussion history, the transfer will also move photos and even voice memos from one device to another.
This new feature is theoretically a bidirectional street, but for now, everything starts with the transfer of iOS to Android. The deployment should occur in the coming weeks and the only difficult requirement is that the Android phone should be executed Android 10 or later, like the new Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3.
