Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page on Tuesday to announce new updates to the popular WhatsApp messaging platform.
He posted, “We’re adding to WhatsApp the ability to securely switch between phones and transfer your chat history, photos, videos, and voice messages between Android and iPhone while maintaining end-to-end encryption. This is a top requested feature. We launched the ability to switch from iPhone–>Android last year, and now adding Android–>iPhone as well.”
Last August WhatsApp added the option to transfer chat history from iOS to Android, starting with Samsung and eventually making it available for all Android 12 devices (in October). Transferring the other way, from Android to iOS, is going into beta testing today.
This means that it will be a while before the option is available to everyone. But if you are running WhatsApp beta, here are some key requirements:
WhatsApp entered the music space recently when they teamed up with Becky G for the Latin Mentorship Dinner: ‘Everyone Can Coexist’ .
In March, some most influential females in the Latin music scene gathered for an industry mentorship dinner, with special guest Becky G, to highlight the importance of cultural connectivity, courtesy of Billboard and WhatsApp.
The event gathered various industry professionals including executives, musicians, producers, songwriters and composers for a pre-dinner cocktail hour, on-site photos, a private video content capture and, a special meal of cultural significance.
