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While plenty of people have made the move from Android to iPhone, likely thanks to the excellent iPhone 13 Pro, the nagging worry of losing your WhatsApp history can often be the one thing keeping people from leaving an Android device to one of the best iPhones. But that's just changed.
In addition to the latest versions of WhatsApp and Move to iOS, you'll also need to be moving from an Android phone running Android 5 or later to an iOS device that's updated to iOS 15.5, the current version of Apple's iPhone software.
WhatsApp started adding the ability to move chat histories from iPhones to Android devices last year, and WhatsApp betas from earlier this year hinted that a vice versa feature was in the works.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "We're adding to WhatsApp the ability to securely switch between phones and transfer your chat history, photos, videos, and voice messages between Android and iPhone while maintaining end-to-end encryption.
"This is a top requested feature. We launched the ability [to] switch from iPhone-->Android last year, and [are] now adding Android-->iPhone as well."
WhatsApp has created two FAQ pages for the feature, so you can find out how to migrate data from Android to iPhone and how to migrate chat history from Android to iPhone.
The move comes a few months before the likely arrival of the iPhone 14, the new flagship phones from Apple set to debut later this year. With last week's iOS 16 preview hinting strongly at an always-on display feature arriving on the iPhone 14 Pro models, we could see Apple make a play to reach Android converts when its new phones arrive, reportedly in the fall. Support for WhatsApp migration feels like another piece of that puzzle.
