This is how you transfer WhatsApp conversations to Telegram

You may have recently switched from WhatsApp to Telegram, or you may be playing with the idea of ​​making the switch. If missing your chat history is holding you back, Telegram now has a solution. In just two steps, you can directly import call data from WhatsApp to Telegram.

WhatsApp to Telegram

After the new terms of use of WhatsApp people have switched ‘en masse’ to other chat services such as Telegram and Signal, although much of it will also stay with WhatsApp, as recently revealed by our AW survey. One downside to changing the chat service is that conversations cannot be transferred to date – Telegram however, has found a solution for this and has now deployed it on Android and iOS.

On the one hand, this concerns personal conversations which can be transferred to Telegram, but on the other hand, it is also possible to transfer group conversations. For Telegram, this chaos at WhatsApp certainly didn’t hurt – in January, the service managed to gain over 100 million new users. It is not known to what extent these users are also active on the platform on a daily basis and if they also use (a lot) WhatsApp.

With the import of the most important conversations Telegram is becoming a major competitor to Signal: a chat app that has also become extremely popular due to the WhatsApp crisis, but still lacks many features in practice. The only downside to the “ new ” apps is of course that not all friends and acquaintances will just leave their familiar chat environment, which means the rise of Telegram and Signal may be short-lived. While you can import conversations, if the contact is not on Signal, it will be of little use to you.

Transfer calls

Before performing the steps below, make sure your contact is active on Telegram. If he or she does not have a Telegram account, it is not possible to transfer data from WhatsApp to Telegram. For group chats it also applies that a group chat must be created in advance on Telegram, after which the conversations can be moved. Below I will describe the two types of conversation separately:

Step by step plan for personal conversations:

1. Open WhatsApp and click on the desired chat conversation
2. Click on the three dots, select “More” and “Export chat”
3. Select if you want to export files, photos and videos
4. Select Telegram from the Share with menu
5. Select the desired chat in Telegram

Step by step plan for group discussions:

1. Make sure you have a (empty) group chat in Telegram
2. Open WhatsApp and select the desired conversation
3. Click on the three dots, select “More” and “Export chat”
4. Select if you want to export files, photos and videos
5. Select Telegram from the Share with menu
6. Select the desired group chat in Telegram

Discussions are preserved

Once the above steps were completed, the call data – including photos, videos, and other files if needed – was transferred to Telegram. You will have to do it by conversation each time: it is not possible to forward all WhatsApp conversations at once. Please note that other people may delete all Telegram chat data, so be aware that Telegram chat data may be lost.

Conversations also remain in WhatsApp – if you keep this app on your phone, the conversations will of course be saved as they were before the transition. Are you planning to export call data from WhatsApp to Telegram? Or do you prefer to stick to WhatsApp? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of the article.