By Selena KomezUpdated on August 24, 2017
“Hello. I need some help. I upgraded to the new Samsung Galaxy S8 phone and now I need to sync the WhatsApp messages from the old phone to it. How?”
WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication tools around the world. People like to use it for communicating with friends, families, clients, and others. But if you get a new phone and sign in your WhatsApp account on it, the WhatsApp history messages don’t automatically come with you. Have you got a new Samsung phone and you have no idea to sync the WhatsApp conversations between your old phone and the new device? Thankfully we’re here to help. This tutorial explains how to transfer WhatsApp messages and attachments between two Samsung devices.
The newest version of WhatsApp has the feature to copy WhatsApp chat history(text, voice messages, photos and videos) to Google Drive. The Google Drive backup makes it a lot of easier to transfer WhatsApp messages from Samsung to Samsung.Note:You should have a Google account activated on your phone and Google Play service on it.
Step 1.Copy WhatsApp Chat History to Google Drive
On your old Samsung phone, open WhatsApp and go to Menu Button > Settings > Chats and calls > Chat backup. From here, you’ll be able to manually copy your chats to Google drive or set it to mechanically copy as frequently as you prefer.
Step 2.Transfer WhatsApp Backup to New Galaxy S8
Install WhatsApp on your new Galaxy S8 phone, once validating your telephone number, you may be prompted to restore revive chats and media from Google Drive. Once the restoration method is complete, all of your messages will be on your new phone.
If you think that the method 1 is quite trouble, you can consider to take this solution, transfer WhatsApp messages from Samsung to Samsung Galaxy S8 directly with Phone Transfer. Phone Transfer is a wonderful program helps to transfer files between two mobile devices among Android device, iOS device, Symbian device. The transferable types of files including contacts, text messages, photos, videos, call logs, music, calendars, apps & apps data.
More Features of Phone Transfer:
-When transferring contacts, all related information such as job title, company name and email address will all be attached, too.
-Allows to backup data from mobile device to computer; restore backup to mobile device on computer; wipe data from mobile device before selling.
-Phone Transfer is specially developed for all phone users and supports over 2,000 phones, including all models of iPhone, Android and Symbian.
-All transferred files will be of the original quality.
Step 1. Run Program and Connect Device
To begin with, you should run Phone Transfer on the computer, then connect both your old Samsung and the new Galaxy S8 phone to the computer at the same time. Then choose “Phone to Phone Transfer” mode on the home page of program.
Step 2. Select File to Transfer
The two phones will be detected by the program once they are connected. Then, you can see the old Samsung and the new Galaxy S8 displayed as the “Source” on the left and as the “Destination” on the right. You can click “Flip” button if you need to switch their positions. Now select “Apps” & “App Data” files to ready for transferring.
Step 3. Start to Transfer WhatsApp Messages from Samsung to Galaxy S8
When everything is ready, just simply click “Start Transfer” to begin the transfer.
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