Trying a Samsung, how can make this suck less?

[pika2000]

Okay, what the **** is this ****?

I'm trying to simply move my whatsapp contacts and chat history to my Android. Apparently that's more difficult than writing my dissertation.

So Whatsapp on the iPhone apparently can't create a backup when your iCloud is full. However those are connected, is quite beyond me.

No matter, I just copy my photos from my iCloud to my PC and all good, right? Yeah no, it's apparently not that easy.
I open iCloud in my browser and I can see all my photos. So I could copy them one at a time because for some insane reason, I can't select them all. How frustrating is that?

So I install iCloud on my computer, which looks like it's just a glorified web app, and runs as well, hoping it will just download my photos. Well, after fiddling around with it for a while it did download all of them, but now they're still in the god damn cloud, so I still don't have room.

I then disabled iCloud for photos on my iPhone, hoping that would delete them, no, apparently I graciously have 30 days to get those photos, which would be nice, except I still don't have access to any of the 5 GB worth of storage I just freed up.

So then I figured, **** the chat history, I just copy the contacts to my SIM and move them to the Android. That's so rudimentary, that should work easily. Now, I must be going crazy, but it seems like there's no god damn way to have the iPhone store contacts on the SIM card. WHY? My Nokia 3310 was able to do that! What's going on here?

So, creating V-Cards via iCloud, not elegant but functional. Putting them onto the Android, no problem, because lo and behold, Android phones actually support - gasp - drag and drop.

And here's where I gave up:

Apparently, one can't import these contacts without using a Samsung app, which requires one to NOT ONLY CREATE A GOD DAMN ACCOUNT but also UPLOAD THE CONTACTS TO SAMSUNG.

How is any of this acceptable?

I can literally create a tic-tac-toe app that runs on Android and iPhone in the same time it takes me to do something as simple and rudimentary as moving some contacts!
What do computer-illiterates do in such a situation?

Man this is the most frustrating experience I've had in front of a computer in ages.

1. Whatsapp: this is whatsapp's limitation. Backups are not cross-platform. Why we know this is whatsapp's own limitation? Because wechat can do cross-platform transfers.
2. Photos and contacts: https://www.android.com/switch/

Other than whatsapp, the rest is actually quite easy.
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Most iOS apps back up to iCloud. Totally an iOS limitation. Even Allo backs up to iCloud. If you use Allo and move to an iPhone or from an iPhone you won’t have any of your stuff.

It is whatsapp's limitation in implementing their chat backup mechanism.
Case point: wechat. I can transfer my wechat history form iPhones to Android and back just fine with a simple QR code scan.

 

[Michael Goff]

1. Whatsapp: this is whatsapp's limitation. Backups are not cross-platform. Why we know this is whatsapp's own limitation? Because wechat can do cross-platform transfers.
2. Photos and contacts: https://www.android.com/switch/

Other than whatsapp, the rest is actually quite easy.
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It is whatsapp's limitation in implementing their chat backup mechanism.
Case point: wechat. I can transfer my wechat history form iPhones to Android and back just fine with a simple QR code scan.

Isn’t that because WeChat is saved in a central location and WhatsApp isn’t and can’t be if you actually want secure communications?

 

[pika2000]

Isn’t that because WeChat is saved in a central location and WhatsApp isn’t and can’t be if you actually want secure communications?

Probably, but that's still Whatsapp' "limitation" right? Not iOS'.
Or one can go for Telegram. Completely cloud based and can be accessed by multiple platform all at once.

Back to the issue here is the ease of transferring your chat history when you want to switch platform. The simple answer is, you cannot do it with Whatsapp. This is why I have two different whatsapp accounts for iOS and Android, each stays at its respective platform.

 

[SteveJUAE]

Here's a good tutorial on how to transfer