WhatsApp has been on the receiving end of significant backlash in recent times after the company took upon itself to change its privacy policy and terms of services. As a direct consequence of this – people began the process of moving to other platforms and alternatives such as Telegram – and hence these apps have gone on to see a huge surge in downloads in the more recent times. So as to both sustain as well as seize the opportunity, Telegram now happens to be rolling out an update to import chat history from other apps.
In a blog post, the company shares how to migrate the chats from other social media apps. The app, which witnessed more than 100 million downloads in the month of January alone, says that users will indeed have the opportunity import the chat, including videos, and also documents. As of now, the supported apps include WhatsApp, Line and also KakaoTalk.
In order to move a chat across the app on either of Android or iOS, all you would need to do is press export chats and then go and select Telegram on the share menu which appears.
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As soon as you carry out this step, the messages will indeed get migrated to Telegram including Timestamps to the current day. This refers to the same User/Group whose chat is migrated will indeed be notified and can see the messages.
Telegram actually stores all the data in cloud – which also of course means that you can save space as you can delete the local storage and re-download, whenever need be.
Other than the migration feature, Telegram’s new update also goes on to bring about other improvements to privacy. For example, you can not actually go on and delete groups, secret chats as well as call history for everyone : all at the very same time.
