What you need to know about the new WhatsApp feature: Message yourself

What you need to know about the new WhatsApp feature: Message yourself

WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app, has announced a new feature that allows users to send messages to themselves. The feature is not yet available on Android and iOS devices but will be rolled out in the next few weeks.

WhatsApp is rolling out its Message to yourself feature for all users.

WhatsApp is rolling out its Message to yourself feature for all users. The new feature lets you backup your SMS and MMS messages to the cloud so that they’re safe and secure on another phone, tablet or computer.

It’s also a way to transfer your WhatsApp data from one phone to another without having to download it again. To use this feature, follow these steps:

• Open up WhatsApp on both phones (you might have one in portrait mode and the other in landscape mode).

• Tap on Settings > Backup & restore > Copy from device (you’ll see something like this).

• Tap Next until it finishes copying everything over from one device into another

To use the feature, you will have to update to Android version 2.19.65 and iPhone version 2.19.61.

To use the feature, you will have to update to Android version 2.19.65 and iPhone version 2.19.61. You will also need a Google account and the latest versions of WhatsApp on your phone, which may take some time if you don’t already have them installed on your device (you can check this by going into Settings > About Phone).

The new feature is aimed at letting users create a backup of their messages and media content in their Google Drive backup archive, making it easier to transfer WhatsApp data from one phone to another.

This is a backup feature. You can transfer data from one phone to another, which means you’ll be able to use it if something happens to your phone and need to get the messages or media content off it.

This feature was added in response to growing concerns about user privacy on WhatsApp, especially after Facebook’s purchase of the messaging app last year.

To use the feature, users will need an active internet connection on both their original and the new phones which they wish to migrate to (which also need to be connected to the same Google account).

To use the feature, users will need an active internet connection on both their original and the new phones which they wish to migrate to (which also need to be connected to the same Google account).

You can’t migrate your WhatsApp conversations from one phone to another if:

• Your old phone is lost or stolen. When you lose access to an old device and want it back, WhatsApp will not allow it because of privacy concerns related to sending messages through its servers.

• You want your friends’ contact info stored in Google Contacts instead of within WhatsApp’s app itself (you’ll have more control over who sees what).

Once the message is sent on WhatsApp, it will be saved in chat list as if you had received a message from yourself with a timestamp of the last message sent by you.

Once the message is sent on WhatsApp, it will be saved in chat list as if you had received a message from yourself with a timestamp of the last message sent by you.

If you receive a new message from yourself while viewing your messages, it will appear in your chat history and have the same timestamp as that of your previous messages that have been sent by yourself.

Users can even add or remove participants from the group chat, or change the subject or description and can share images, videos, emojis and GIFs using the Message to yourself feature.

• You can add or remove participants from the group chat, or change the subject or description.

• You can share images, videos, emojis and GIFs using the Message to yourself feature.

The message will go into your chat history like other regular messages.

Message yourself is a new feature that lets you send yourself a message in WhatsApp. It’s like sending an SMS, except it will go into your chat history like other regular messages.

The message will appear in your chat list, with a timestamp and as if it was sent by you (even though it wasn’t).

Conclusion

WhatsApp is rolling out its Message to yourself feature for all users. To use the feature, you will have to update to Android version 2.19.65 and iPhone version 2.19.61. The new feature is aimed at letting users create a backup of their messages and media content in their Google Drive backup archive, making it easier to transfer WhatsApp data from one phone to another.