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		j1elo 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is ... Correction, in case you're interested: Whatsapp does (and has always done) allow local file backups. I know because they are just there on the storage: `Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Backups/` I also know because for many years I was VERY cloud-averse so for several iterations of smartphone purchases I did migrate my chat backups between phones (plain copy-paste of files with a computer) without issues.

bornfreddy 20 hours ago [–]

That sounds interesting, though a short search revealed this method is not very user friendly [0]. Still, if it works... Thank you!

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/comments/11oiwse/working_a...

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