Tag: Whatsapp

icloud – How to merge two WhatsApp chat histories on iPhone?

Summary:

I used WhatsApp – with the same phone number – on two iPhones at different times (a new one and and old one), and I’m wondering if it is possible to merge the chat histories of both?

Details:

I used WhatsApp for a few years on an iPhone 7. Then the screen broke, and I got a new phone (iPhone 10).

The iPhone 7 was unused for about 6 months. During that time, I used WhatsApp on the new phone. Since the iPhone 7 WhatsApp messages weren’t backed up to iCloud, I have six months (only) of messages on the iPhone 10.

Now I’ve fixed the screen on the iPhone 7 and can log in and see multiple years of WhatsApp messages again (but not the latest six months of messages).

So I’d like to somehow get all the old messages onto the new phone (while keeping the newer messages already on it).

The WhatsApp FAQ explains how to restore a chat history on iPhone but it would involve deleting and reinstalling the iPhone 10’s WhatsApp app (which triggers WhatsApp to fetch the iPhone 7 messages from the cloud). However, I’m guessing that in the process of deleting WhatsApp on the iPhone 10, I would delete those most recent months of messages. (I haven’t tried yet, for fear of doing exactly that.)

I’d love to hear from people who have had this issue and successfully resolved it. Thanks!

macbook pro – Emoji Icon does not show up in touch bar when writing in Whatsapp

When I’m writing a message on Whatsapp, the Emoji Icon (Smiley Face) does not show up in the touch bar. Instead, the touch bar shows just the last emojis like this:

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But when I try to search for someone in the search tab of Whatsapp, the Smiley Face shows up like this:

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I want the 2nd one to show up all the time. I don’t use just the last 5 emojis, there is much more that I use. Is there a way to do this? How can I get the touch bar to always show the Smiley Face?

Whatsapp crashes on commercial chat

When I start a conversation against a commercial phone, whatsapp crashes.

I can briefly see the profile picture of the contact, but it crashes beford I can start writing anything

I can see contact’s information, like address and map location, but no chat.

Tried even wiping data

appsec – End-2-end encryption with WhatsApp

I have had recently gone through the horror of transferring WhatsApp conversations when changing phones (android for iPhone). Actually, the thing that it is close to impossible for everyday folk is a good thing for its security reputation – I suppose.

I suspect that the transfer, that I did with the help of a 3rd party software that cost me 15 Euros and the rest of my privacy, works in a way that the messages go unencrypted from the android to a computer (to be processed with a 3rd party software that you have given full access to your devices and you have nothing else than to just trust it), from where, unencrypted, they go to the new phone, encrypting themselves in the process with the new private key, that the new phone has.

That is sort of understandable generalization of the process, I hope I am at least somehow right. However, if one would have changed an Android phone for another Android phone, the transfer is much easier as the new phone can restore the chats from a Google Drive where the messages had been backed up to.

Now, the messages are backed up encrypted otherwise, it would have kind of lose its point. But the new phone has a new private key generated, right? How come it is able to decrypt the messages from a backup? Does the private key leave the original phone and is backed up too? Is the calculation of the new private key somehow related to the phone number verification? Why does it work so easily for Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone but so hard across?

backup – Whatsapp data lost, what can i do

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telegram – WhatsApp chat export not working

Exporting WhatsApp chat doesn’t work from Android (WhatsApp v2.21.1.16, Android 11).

When exporting a chat, it exports only partially (circa 20MB+/- 3MB). Exporting the same chat from an iPhone works fine.

Any ideas?

Can’t wait to be rid of WhatsApp. Telegram all the way.

Remove WhatsApp images from OneDrive photo library

I’m trying to remove WhatsApp clutter from my private photos folder on OneDrive. I’m using OneDrive on Android and it seems it is being used as the backup target for WhatsApp and Viber.

I really need a suggestion on how to remove the whole WhatsApp lot from OneDrive and stop syncing new ones.

If there is an API and a WhatsApp tag of some sort, I’m open to creating a shared script on GitHub.

Merge overlapping WhatsApp backups – Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange

I flashed my phone last year, but before that, I made a WhatsApp backup. However, the WhatsApp backup made wasn’t complete(perhaps I exited the app while backing up). Hence, I lost 1 year worth of chat history.
I have an old phone which still retains the chat history, but the chat histories are overlapping, as described below:

Old phone chats: 2015(month unknown) – June 2018

New phone chats: 2016(month unknown) – present

I would like to merge the chat histories (and preferably, call logs too) to contain the chats from 2015 – present. I have seen many WhatsApp backup merging tutorial and posts like in here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tool-merjapp-merge-whatsapp-databases.2896496/, but these only explain how to merge the backups if the chat histories do not have overlapping chat histories. How do I merge two overlapping chat histories, without causing messages from 2016-2018 to appear twice?

I only need to know how to merge the wa.db and msgstore.db and other relevant files, if I need help in retrieving them and altering them I would post it as another question.

Thanks.

Remove WhatsApp images from OneDrive Photo library

I’m trying to remove WhatsApp clutter from my private photos folder on OneDrive. I’m using OneDrive on Android and it seems it is being used as the backup target for WhatsApp and Viber.

I really need a suggestion on how to remove the whole WhatsApp lot from the OneDrive and stop syncing new ones.

If there is an API and a WhatsApp tag of some sort, I’m open to creating a shared script on github.

Is it possible to use WhatsApp Web without scanning the QR code?

I have a camera issue in my phone that it is not able to scan the QR code. Is there any other way to use WhatsApp Web without the QR code, like using OTP?