expensive but worked
First, my Setup: Transferring Whatsapp from a Huawei Honor 8 to an iPhone 12 with a Macbook Pro 2018 BigSur v11.2 When I got my new iPhone I didn't expect switching Whatsapp from Android to iOS to be so complicated or expensive. But after doing a ton of research, I concluded that paying for a service would be a better use of my time than hacking through it myself. A lot of the other services on Page 1 & 2 of Google for "whatsapp android ios transfer" were €10-20 cheaper than this one (I paid €39), but after comparing reviews here on TrustPilot I decided to pay the premium for MobileTrans' due to their well-rated customer support, expecting that I'd need to lean on it heavily to get the result. Was also expecting the transfer to be imperfect -> lots of ppl reporting here that it didn't transfer the media files/photos/pdfs associated with chats, or that names were no longer associated with the phone numbers. Very pleasantly surprised that everything transferred (including media files, phone number/name associations) within about 1.5hrs, only 15min of which required my attention, and with no hiccups or need to submit support tickets. The instructions in the app were straightforward, and the result is what you'd expect if the Whatsapp team was taking care of the transfer directly. Probably cheaper ways to do it, and IMHO this is still 4-8x more expensive than it should be. But happy overall with the time saved by this purchase.