One might assume, that everyone today has a smartphone, and that they have WhatsApp and are happy about it. Well, hopefully, that's true for a lot - but it's not so for a lot many too. And, it does take time to move stuff from an old generation phone to a new generation one, as I recently discovered.
Easier option to restore messages:
Recently around May/June this year, I migrated from an older phone (alright, i'll admit it was an old Nokia E63!) to an Android-based phone. Unfortunately, the experience wasn't great, and I was unable to move the backup of my WhatsApp conversations from the old to the new phone. I realized, this was because:
a. The format of the chat backups was changed from the MsgStore.bak to msgstore-yyyy-mm-dd.n.db.crypt format, and
b. There was no option to point WhatsApp (on the new phone) to pick up the old backup files, unless it automatically detected it.
To make it convenient for users, and in future to prevent such issues, it would help if the WhatsApp installation provides an option to check if the user installing it wants to restore earlier chats, and allow the user to specify the location and format of the backup files. Auto-detection may not be the only/best way to do this, as is currently implemented.
Keep it simple, and allow backward compatibility!
Anybody listening out there? (Hope so).
If you (reader) like this, do vote for it or put in your comments. May be that'll get us heard.
Disclaimer: This is not an official WhatsApp Enhancement tracker/publisher, but since it was hard to get in touch with the WhatsApp guys, I just put this down by myself. Maybe someone will help to take this to them. Cheers.
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