WhatsApp has revised its policy effective from Feb 8, 2021, which states that WhatsApp data including chats, photos, files, etc will be shared with its parent company Facebook. You can also check the Truth About Data Collection By WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Etc to have a clearer view of the applications you use. Due to this many users across the global migration to similar apps like signal and telegram, whereas Signal and Telegram have seen a huge spike in downloads suppressing WhatsApp. Let us have a tutorial on migrating your WhatsApp group to respective Signal and Telegram.
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Move group from WhatsApp to Signal
A simple way to migrate your group from WA is creating a group in Signal as below steps and share the invite link to WhatsApp group.
Step 1 and 2: Open the Signal app from the home screen and click on the edit icon on the bottom left corner. Click on “New group” to create the group.
Step 3 and 4: You can add people here itself or click on “Skip” to add people later. Now enter the desired name and picture and click on “Create”.
Step 5 and 6: The group will popup with “Invite friends” tab and click on “Enable and Share link” to proceed further for sharing group link. Signal has an amazing feature, that you can control the user who joins your group. By clicking on the “Approve new member”, an admin will get a notification of members who join and only with admin approval, the user will be included in the group.
Move group from Whatsapp to Telegram
When coming to features, the Telegram has many options when compared to both WhatsApp and Signal. The group owner can set different right for different admin and have more control over the group. Around 200,000 people can be added to a single group.
Step 1 and 2: Click on “Edit” on the bottom left corner. On the next screen, you have options of New group, Secret chat and New Channel. Click on “New group” to create a group.
Step 3 and 4: On the next screen select people from the list to add into the group and on the next screen give the group name and picture.
Step 5 and 6: Upon creating a group, you will be displayed with a message as below. Now click on the edit button on the top right corner to proceed further.
Step 7 and 8: After clicking on the edit icon you will see the invite option on the next screen and click on it to share the link to WhatsApp group.
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