As we already know that WhatsApp keeps on adding new features and facilities to amaze its user base.
In one such development, now this social media service provider is presently working on a new feature.
Chat Transfer Without Drive Backup
This feature will allow the users to transfer their chat history to a new phone, that too without taking a backup on the cloud or drive.
If you are wondering about this service, it will be offered for free as reported.
Presently, all his work is done by the users who are needed to backup their chats on cloud before changing from an old device to a new one.
It appears that the messaging app now wants to change the hassle included in the chat transfer and is working on making it easier for people to transfer chats from an old device to a new one.
Further, the Meta-owned messaging app will soon allow chat transfer via QR code, as per the report.
As the company claims that this feature will help users from storing/saving the chats on Drive account before changing to a new device.
This new development further implies that WhatsApp will soon use QR code to help you shift chats and other content to a new device.
This simply means that the users are completely able to bypass the need for storing/saving the chats on Drive account.
How Does This WhatsApp QR Code Chat Transfer Works?
In case you are wondering how this WhatsApp QR code chat transfer is going to work, the reports suggest that WhatsApp will reportedly create a new QR code for the older device when you switch to a new phone and download the app.
In simple words, this QR code will help you to transfer your chat and data history to the new device.
The user simply has to point the WhatsApp on this QR code to get the chat transfer started.
Besides this, the report also talks about the feature that has been spotted in the development stage with Android beta version 2.24.9.19. So, this feature should be available soon to the beta testers.
We can expect that this new method will surely help people who don’t want to pay for Google Drive as the WhatsApp backup storage counts against their cloud space these days.
