iPhone backups
Finds the iPhone backups on your PC and opens the WhatsApp chats inside them, encrypted backups too, with the backup password.
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ChatShift
Read and export WhatsApp chats on your PC
Years of conversations deserve a copy you can open. ChatShift reads your WhatsApp chats from an iPhone backup on your PC or from chats you exported in WhatsApp, with photos, videos and voice notes, and saves them as files you keep.
- iPhone backups and chat exports
- Read-only, stays on your PC
- Windows 11 and 10
What ChatShift does
Android chat exports
Opens the .zip or .txt files that WhatsApp’s Export chat makes on an Android phone, with the media you included.
Search every chat
Find a message, a name or a date across all your conversations in seconds.
Media in the chat
Photos, videos and documents show where they were sent, and voice notes play right in the conversation.
HTML, PDF or CSV
Save chats as a web page that opens offline, a PDF for printing and records, or a CSV table, with the media in a folder next to them.
Read-only
Backups and exports are never changed, and nothing is uploaded. Everything stays on your PC.
Business accounts too
Works with WhatsApp Business chats as well as personal ones.
How to use ChatShift
- 1
Back up or export
Make a full iPhone backup on this PC with Apple’s free app, or use Export chat in WhatsApp on Android.
- 2
Open it in ChatShift
ChatShift lists the iPhone backups on this PC. Exported chats open from the file.
- 3
Read and export
Read and search your chats, play voice notes, and save them as HTML, PDF or CSV.
When ChatShift helps
Chat history is some of the most personal data on a phone. A readable copy on your PC keeps it safe through any phone change.
Before you switch or reset a phone
Keep a copy of every conversation that you can open on your PC, whatever happens to the phone.
Records for work or family
Save a conversation as a PDF or web page, with its photos and documents, to keep or hand over.
Find an old message fast
Search years of chats on a big screen instead of scrolling on the phone.
Print a conversation
A PDF per chat, with the photos in it, ready to print.
Before you start
- iPhone: make a full backup of the iPhone on this PC with Apple’s free Apple Devices app or iTunes. ChatShift reads the WhatsApp chats from that backup.
- Encrypted iPhone backups open with the backup password you chose. It is used once and never saved.
- Android: in WhatsApp, open a chat, choose Export chat and pick Include media, then copy the file to your PC. Do this for each chat you want to keep.
- Android backups made by WhatsApp itself (the crypt14 and crypt15 files) are encrypted with a key that stays on the phone, so they cannot be read on a PC.
To move chats to a new phone, use WhatsApp’s own free transfer. ChatShift keeps a copy you can read and print.
Technical details
- Works on
- Windows 11 and Windows 10, 64-bit
- Phones
- iPhone backups (iTunes / Apple Devices) and Android chat exports
- Content
- Chats, photos, videos, voice notes and documents
- Accounts
- Personal and Business accounts
- Backups
- Read-only, never changed
ChatShift questions
Can ChatShift move chats to a new phone?
No. WhatsApp’s own free transfer moves chats between phones. ChatShift keeps a copy you can read, search and print on your PC.
Does it read Android backups?
It reads the files WhatsApp makes with Export chat. The encrypted backups WhatsApp saves on Android phones cannot be read, because the key stays on the phone.
What if my iPhone backup is encrypted?
Enter the backup password you chose in iTunes or the Apple Devices app. It is used once and never saved.
Does it work with WhatsApp Business?
Yes. Business chats open and export the same way.
Are my chats uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything stays on your PC.
Can I read my chats on the PC?
Yes. That is what ChatShift is for: read and search your chats, play voice notes, and export them as HTML, PDF or CSV.