Forget Google drive backup, quickly switch your WhatsApp knowledge utilizing QR code

WhatsApp might quickly enable its customers to switch knowledge from one machine to a different through QR code. According to a report by WaBetaInfo, this characteristic will present a handy and environment friendly resolution for these in search of to switch their chat historical past to a brand new Android telephone with out backing up their chats and media on Google Drive.

WaBetaInfo is an internet platform that tracks new and upcoming options coming to the Meta-owned messaging app.

The upcoming capability to switch knowledge through a QR code will make the migration course of extra streamlined and quicker. As per the report, the characteristic is at present underneath growth. There is not any details about when the characteristic will begin rolling out.

How will the brand new WhatsApp characteristic work?

Sharing a screenshot of how the characteristic may go, WaBetaInfo report says that the info migration course of begins by downloading WhatsApp on a brand new Android machine. With the brand new characteristic, customers will merely need to scan the QR code on their new smartphone from their previous machine. The characteristic appears much like the present capability to make use of WhatsApp net with out downloading the app in your laptop.

Earlier this week, the moment messaging app rolled out proxy assist for its customers all around the world. With this new assist, customers will be capable to connect with WhatsApp by way of servers arrange by volunteers and organizations world wide. It will assist them talk freely in conditions when the web is blocked or disrupted.

Announcing the proxy assist, WhatsApp mentioned “We’re aware that simply as we’ve celebrated the begin to 2023 by way of personal texts or calls, there are a lot of individuals who proceed to be denied the flexibility to succeed in their family members due to web shutdowns. To assist, in the present day we’re launching proxy assist for WhatsApp customers all around the world. What this implies is we’re placing the ability into individuals’s fingers to keep up entry to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.”

WhatsApp says that connecting through proxy will supply the identical stage of privateness and safety that the social media platform at present gives. Users’ private messages will nonetheless be protected by end-to-end encryption, it says.

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