It’s that simple you can transfer a WhatsApp group to Signal.
The year started with some controversy surrounding WhatsApp after the messaging app itself made an update to the application’s conditions of use. Conditions that since the first days of this year 2021 have begun to be shown to users and that they must also accept if they want to continue using the famous messaging application.
In these conditions, users are informed of the new data collection practices and the possibility of sharing them with Facebook. This has made many users decide to stop using the Facebook-owned app and look for other alternatives that offer greater privacy.
In this sense, Signal is one of the best alternatives, so if you are thinking of starting to use it, we are going to show you how to transfer WhatsApp groups to Signal so that you can keep them. To do this, the first thing we must do is install the app on our mobile phone, something we can do from the following links for iOS and Android devices respectively.
Steps to follow to create a group in Signal and invite the members of the WhatsApp group
During the installation of Signal, it will be necessary to grant the necessary permissions to access our contacts, verify our telephone number by means of a code that we will receive by SMS and indicate the name that we want to appear in our account.
Once this is done, the next thing we have to do is tap on the menu button, icon with three dots, and select the New group option. Now we will have to create a group in Signal with at least one participant, we can be ourselves, and give it whatever name we want. We can give it the same name as the WhatsApp group that we want to transfer so that there is no confusion.
With the group created, we touch on the name of the group and from the menu we access the group settings . There we will find the Group Link option , which we must activate. When you touch on this option, the options to manage and share this group will appear. That’s where the link to the group we just created will appear along with the Share option .
We touch on this option, click on Share again and then select the WhatsApp app. Within the messaging app owned by Facebook, we look for the group that we want to transfer to Signal and we share the link so that each of the participants can join that group through the link itself.
Now we just have to wait for the group participants to join in and we will have the same WhatsApp group but through Signal.
