Telegram, a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging
service, has updated its app to allow users to move their chat history from
other rival platforms including WhatsApp.
The company broke the news in a blog post on Thursday while
announcing a flurry of other new initiatives for its users.
Telegram explained that with the latest update, users can
now move chat history including videos and documents for individual and group
chats.
“Starting today, everyone can bring their chat history – including videos and documents – to Telegram from apps like WhatsApp, Line and KakaoTalk. This works both for individual chats and groups,” it wrote.
The company accompanied the post with a short video wherein
it explained the steps its users can adopt to enable them move their chats from
other apps to Telegram.
“To move a chat from WhatsApp on iOS, open the Contact Info
or Group Info page in WhatsApp, tap Export Chat, then choose Telegram in the
Share menu,” it added.
“On Android, open a WhatsApp chat, tap ⋮
> More > Export Chat, then choose Telegram in the Share menu:
“Messages will be imported into the current day but will
also include their original timestamps. All members of the chat on Telegram
will see the messages.”
Other features introduced include how users can save space
after moving chats, increased privacy control, new animations and improved
voice chats.
Telegram has continued to witness a surge in the number of
users in recent times alongside Signal, another rival app, in the wake of a
controversial privacy policy by WhatsApp.
In the blog post, Telegram also revealed that it got 100
million new users in January — about two weeks after it recorded 500 million
active users globally.
Signal also witnessed an
increase in downloads across the world after endorsements from Elon Musk, CEO
of Tesla.
This is coming on the back of the widespread criticism that
greeted WhatsApp after it announced a new privacy policy in which users will
have to let Facebook and its subsidiaries collect its data, like phone numbers
and locations.
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