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I used to think that, until I realised it's impossible (well difficult, and not officially supported) to export your messages from WhatsApp. That's pretty bulls
by nicoburns 5y ago
I used to think that, until I realised it's impossible (well difficult, and not officially supported) to export your messages from WhatsApp. That's pretty bullshit.
- Someone 5y agohttps://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat-history/?lang=en https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...: “Depending on your settings, you can also periodically back up your WhatsApp chats to Google Drive” “You can use the export chat feature to export a copy of the chat history from an individual or group chat.” I haven’t checked the full backup, but exports of individual chats are easily readable (zip with a .txt of all texts in the chat and individual images, IIRC)
- nicoburns 5y agoThe full backup is unfortunately not accessible! I can’t think why they’ve done this, but it’s incredibly user hostile! The individual exports work fine, but it’s very tedious to go through every conversation individually.
- square_usual 5y agoIf you have an Android phone, you can extract the SQLite DB that contains all your WhatsApp messages. When I switched from Android to iOS I backed up my DB and still use it when I need to read an old conversation.