# Help moving from iPhone to Android

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-moving-from-iphone-to-android/914313>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 4, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-moving-from-iphone-to-android/914313 "2020-07-04T19:34:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Baggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Mr.Baggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Baggins)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-moving-from-iphone-to-android/914313/1 "2020-07-04T19:34:03Z")

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My wife’s work phone has been renewed, but they changed it from an iPhone (8, i think) to a Samsung S10+. The new phone has a helpful transfer app to move her data, but it doesn’t seem to include her whatsapp chats . She lives and dies by them (mostly work related) and doesn’t want to lose anything; alas, there’s about 11GB of the stuff.

I tried the “backup to email” process, but again, 11GB. Some chats are 60-80 MB. Same for the iCloud thing.

So, can anyone recommend some program that would let me do this as painlessly as possible?

Much obliged.

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**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-moving-from-iphone-to-android/914313/2 "2020-07-04T21:03:08Z")

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Hmm.

Maybe you should request a change to the title and the forum.

Your problem is not different OS’ it is “how do I backup and restore a large quantity of WhatsApp messages” ?

Maybe this link is helpful:

[https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/download-and-installation/about-supported-operating-systems](https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/download-and-installation/about-supported-operating-systems)