There are many who want to leave Whatsapp to switch to more powerful messaging services and beware of privacyas Telegram and Signal, numbered between the best alternatives to WhatsApp. Until now, one of the obstacles when moving from one platform to another was due to the impossibility of transferring the messages that we have in our chats, from WhatsApp to Telegram.
Fortunately, this problem has been left behind and is now simple. now you can iimport chats from one app to another accompanied by all his multimedia content (photos, videos, audio and documents). In addition, one of the great advantages of this operation is that Telegram, unlike Whatsapp, upload all chats including their media files (photos, videos, audio notes, etc.) to your cloud.
So having a copy of WhatsApp chats on Telegram, it will not increase the space occupied in our device. Also, after this operation, deleting Whatsapp will save a lot of space on your device, but this choice is always postponed until all your contacts go to Telegram.
After this brief introduction we come to the procedure.
Transfer WhatsApp chats to Telegram
It really only takes a few steps, make sure you have installed the two messaging applications on your terminal before starting.
The procedure is almost identical on both platforms Android and iOS of iPhone/iPad.
These are the steps to follow:
- Open WhatsApp and enter the chat to export. Here click on the three vertical dots at the top right;
- Then press on the element «Other«
- And later "Export chats“ to switch from WhatsApp to Telegram;
- Choose if you want to include only messages or also multimedia files (voice messages, photos, videos and documents). In this second case, click on «Include media";
- In the dialog that opens, you will need to choose the Telegram application;
- At this point Telegram will open, with its import screen, inside you can choose which of the chats to copy the messages from WhatsApp to Telegram;
- At this point, press the «Import ”to start the chat transfer process. Its duration will depend on the number of messages and multimedia files it contains. You can follow their progress on the screen;
- When the procedure is finished, click on «Done«. At this point you can open Telegram and note the presence of all imported messages.
Fortunately, all imported messages are also easily recognizable with the message «Imported«, which includes the date and time,
Transfer chats on desktop and web
The desktop version of Whatsapp (also in Web version) and Telegram to date does not allow you to export and import messages from WhatsApp to Telegram, but it is possible that the option will arrive sooner or later. However, by performing this procedure from a smart smartphone, we will still find all the important messages even when we access Telegram from a PC.