WhatsApp users can now transfer message data from Android to an iPhone

WhatsApp users who are switching to an iPhone from Android can now take their message history with them (Nick Ansell/PA)

WhatsApp users who are switching to an iPhone from Android can now take their message history with them.

Until now it has only been possible to transfer WhatsApp data when moving in the other direction – from an iPhone to Google’s Android platform – and was only introduced last year.