WhatsApp Transfer: Xperia 10 III → iPhone 17
I purchased MobileTrans specifically to transfer my WhatsApp data from an Xperia 10 III to an iPhone 17. The transfer appeared to complete successfully, and I received a dialog confirming that the process had finished. However, the result was incomplete and possibly affected by a bug. At first, all of my chats appeared in WhatsApp on the iPhone. However, whenever I opened a chat, it disappeared from the chat list. The chat itself was still there. I could find it through the search function and access the message history, but it no longer appeared in the main list. This is extremely inconvenient because the chats I use most frequently are the very ones that disappear, while only chats that I rarely or never need to revisit remain visible. The people I communicate with regularly are missing from the chat list, while conversations of little importance remain exactly where they should not matter. Then I checked WhatsApp on my PC, hoping the data would be more complete there. Unfortunately, the situation was even worse. Many chats appeared to have been only partially restored. When I opened them, I was prompted to click a button to view chat history from my phone. After clicking it, I could only see messages up to about one month ago. To be fair, I have seen reviews from users who claim that they lost all of their WhatsApp data during the transfer process. Compared with that, I suppose my result could have been worse. On the other hand, "most of the data survived" is not exactly what I expected from paid migration software. I also tried Move to iOS before purchasing MobileTrans, and that experience was even more problematic. Compared with that, MobileTrans was an improvement. That said, considering the amount of time, effort, and troubleshooting involved, I would not describe the price as particularly reasonable. I repeated the entire transfer process twice and obtained exactly the same result both times, which suggests that this was not simply a one-time error. MobileTrans did transfer my data, but the migration was incomplete, unreliable, and left me with significant issues that I am still unable to resolve. Rating: 2/5 One star because some of the data made it across. One star because the software managed to reproduce the same problems twice. The remaining three stars seem to have vanished along with my missing messages.