• Devi
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    1310 months ago

    They knew it was coming way before it did. Boris had no messages before a certain date and claimed it was cause he had a new phone.

    Labour MPs, and everyone else in the modern world, have pointed out that isn’t how Whatsapp works, but his answer was basically “Oh well”

    • Alex
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      110 months ago

      I dunno. I tried to transition my sister in law’s WhatsApps from her iPhone to Android and it’s as far as I can tell impossible because the backup on the respective cloud services are hidden and can’t be loaded manually.

      • Devi
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        410 months ago

        It’s all linked. You can access your whatsapp from your phone to your laptop and it transfers place to place. You may have set up a new whatsapp on her new phone rather than just signing in but in that case you can just sign out and into the old one, they’re not gone.

        • Alex
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          110 months ago

          How do you get the messages to your laptop? My googling only lead to various hacks to enable hidden iCloud folders and copying from there. Anyway I suspect I’m going a bit of topic but the point was it wasn’t as smooth a process as I was expecting from my experience upgrading phones on the same OS.