📱 iOS - Export Chats from Whatsapp

Last updated on : 2021-06-12

Important

This method may result in the loss of your messages, if your chat is over 40000 message as WhatsApp sets that as the upper limit for the built-in export. For full export, use a tool like iTransor.

Instructions

What you should know

• Although WhatsApp has backup functionality built-in, this is not a good alternative for creating exports as you can not selectively (re)store chat threads, you also can't easily store it in a place of your choosing.
• When exporting with media, you can send up to 10,000 latest messages. Without media, you can only send 40,000 messages.
• advanced only 👩‍💻 - If you want to export all your WhatsApp history, you can follow this Guide by easeus which covers their tool called "EaseUS MobiMover".

What you should do

1. Export chat history

1. Open WhatsApp
2. Go to the Chat your want to export
3. Tap on the contact name on the top of the screen.
4. From the list of options, select “More” and then “Export chat”.
5. You would then be asked whether you would like to export chat with or without media.
   
6. After decisiong, select the email service that you would like to use to send out the email containing the chat data. The data will get attached to the email and you can send it to any email address of your choice.
   

Sources : WhatsApp