Transfer Whatsapp Conversations To New Device

Thursday, 15 January 2015

WhatsApp has become one of the most popular communication tools on the planet. But if you get a new phone, and want to transfer your account to a new device, your old messages don't automatically come with you. Here we show you a short method to transfer WhatsApp conversations to a new device.

It's quite easy to do, just follow these steps :

Create a backup of your chat history on your old phone. To do this you open the settings menu of WhatsApp, tap on "Chat settings" and then tap "Backup conversations"

Connect your smartphone via USB cable to the PC and navigate to the internal memory of the device to the folder "WhatsApp / Databases". Here are all the backup files saved with a date. They will look something like "msgstore-2013-05-29.db.crypt". Copy the file with the latest date of creation (it will have a different name compared to the automatic backups created, mine is "msgstore.db.crypt8") onto your PC in an easy to find location (like your desktop).

Install WhatsApp on your new device but do not start the app!

Connect your new device via USB to the PC. Because you've already downloaded WhatsApp onto your new handset, the folder "WhatsApp / Databases" should now exist. If not, you can manually create a new "Databases" folder in the "WhatsApp" folder yourself.

Copy your WhatsApp conversation backup file into this folder.

Now start WhatsApp on your new phone and verify your phone number. You should now get a notification that a message backup was found. Just tap "Restore", and you're done. After a few seconds, all of your messages should have safely returned.