Telegram : How To Move Chat History From Other Apps

Telegram just introduced the ability to import chat history from other messaging apps.

Find out how to move your chat history from other messaging apps to Telegram!

 

Telegram Now Lets You Move Chat History From Other Apps

Telegram has been very active trying to encourage disgruntled WhatsApp users to migrate to their messaging app.

On 28 January 2021, Telegram introduced the ability to import chat history from other messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line and KakaoTalk.

This feature works for both individual chats and chat groups, and leverages the export function already available in those messaging apps for years now.

Before you proceed, we should warn you about the security risks of moving your chats to Telegram :

  • it lacks end-to-end encryption for all chats, except Secret Chat
  • your data – chats and files – are all stored in their cloud servers
  • your data is encrypted in storage, but Telegram has the encryption keys

You can read more about the risks in Why You Should NOT Move WhatsApp Chats To Telegram!

 

Telegram : How To Move Chat History From Other Apps

This video example demonstrates how to migrate your chats and files from WhatsApp to Telegram on iOS (left), and Android (right). It should work the same way for the other apps.

Moving Chats On iOS

  1. Make sure you have the latest versions of WhatsApp and Telegram.
  2. Open WhatsApp.
  3. Open Contact Info or Group Info.
  4. Tap Export Chat.
  5. Choose to Include Media or export Without Media.
  6. Select Telegram in the Share menu.

Moving Chats On Android

  1. Make sure you have the latest versions of WhatsApp and Telegram.
  2. Open WhatsApp.
  3. Tap on the ⋮ icon.
  4. Select More > Export Chat.
  5. Choose to Include Media or export Without Media.
  6. Select Telegram in the Share menu.

As you can see, it’s pretty simple. But you have to do it for every chat or chat group.

You cannot do a mass export and import of all chats from WhatsApp (or other messaging apps) to Telegram.

 

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